Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-02-06

| said He'll a ins and costs as the condition
| of Gismissing The proceeding; and ne DIS,
| missed the proceeding when the me ana
! ccsts were paid. Philips kept the me As
VI, II IS the costs for his own use. And on
December =, 1882, A. Walter was 6rouSnt
before Philips on a like charge, which was
dismissed BY Philips on Walter paying the
costs.
Seyenth-Gn Holmes, in January or
February. 1882, paid Philips Q fine and
costs. Asa part Of the costs Philips asked
and received from Holmes one dollar each
for two witnesses. To each OF these Wit
res>ss Philips paid sixty cents, corruPtly
and frsudulently representing to them thar
he had no more money for them. Inc re
naming dollar Philips kept Tor his own
use.
Eishth-He has disobeyed The law
py fsilipg to file with the Clerk OF
the County Court a LIST of the
fines collected by him in the
| yesr 1882 and paid By him TO the sheriff.
Instead Of the list which the law requires,
he has fled with said c!erks paper o
ing only the sggresate amount as he rep
rssents il, of said fines. This disooed'
fence OF the plain letter of the law couln
have heen for 10 other purpose than 10
conceal his fTauddient and Illegal acts ana
10 increase the difficulty Of coayichng MN
OF ~embezzling money belonging u the
StEte.
IMMORTALITY.
The said Philips has also been guilty Of
gross immortality. such as makes it proper
that he should be removed. Of which the
following are specific instances:
First-On the 18th day Of November,
1882. in a suit,then pending before him, the
said Philip issued an attachment against
Simon Baer q Sons, as garnishees, the
debtor being Pritchsrd & Co. Before the
attachment was returnab!e and before the
gsrnishee had answered, he so far forgot
the decencies of his official position as TO
make a bet with James p. Maxwell with
reference TO the result OF Philips "
Judgment against the said garnishes.
Philips bet that S. Baer & Son
were indebted to Pritchard & Co.,
and Maxwell that they were not.
The stakes we're $50 from each, and were
deposited with Lawrence Weber as stake.
holder. After going thus far in this fagi-
tious and immoral conduct, he in some
way discovered that there was no such firm
in existence as Pritchard & Co, and seeing
that under no possible p%retence could 1t be
decided that s Baer & Son were indebted
to q firm which was not in existence, he
sought to elude the payment OF his bet by
dismissing the suit so that the garnishees
could not answer and so that it could not
be judicially ascertained that they were not
indebted TO Pritchard & Co. The stakehuld-
er, however, decided that he had lost the
bet, and turned the stakes over to Maxwell.
Philips, therefore, being without any
sense Of shame and not having any reputa.
ton to lose, brought suit against
Maxwell for the $50 and recovered it as
money lost in the immoral practice OF
betting.
Second-He takes part in immoral and
illegal games of chance in which sums
greater than 800 are lost and won at a
single sitting. In the latter part OF last
year, on one occasion in a house on Market
street, between Twelfth and Fourteenth
and on the west side OF Market street, and
not very far from the alley corner, in the
city of Wheeling, the said Philips engaged
in an immoral and unlawful game of chance
known as poker" and at that sitting the
said Philips lost the sum OF 1926. For this
sum he gave his opponent a check on the
Exchange Bank in which he had no honey
and next day wrote his opponent q note,
in which, dishonorable even in his vices,
he told him that he had concluded not to
pay the check, as if did not pay his losses
no one would play with him, and he would
Ike kept out of temptation, or words to that
effect, with others which will be found in
teresting when produced in connection
Will ZIG ttsllHlOuy VI tHo POioOh "ish
whom he was playing.
More than enough specific instances OF
misconduct and immortality have been
mentioned. The said Philips is notorious
in the community as a man OF unworthy
character, whose reputation for veracity is
so bad that his sworn testimony is not to
be believed and is therefore unworthy to
be trusted, under the obligation Of an oath
which he does not regard, with the response.
bic duties belonging 10 the office which he
disgraces.
honorable BODY to remove said Philips
from his said office of Justice of the Peace
Of Clay district. john p. ST.. MYERS.
BY HENRY NJ. RUSSELL, his Attorney.
ohio County, February ,, 1888.
At the conclusion OF Mr. Russell's charge,
the President of the Board announced
Tuesday, the 18th inst, at 10 o'clock A. NJ.
as the day and hour for an investigation OF
the charges.
REPORTS or JUSTICES.
The reports Of the several Justices of the
Peace were then read. No objection to the
reports were made until the report Of Jus.
tice Philips was read, when Mr.. Boring |
moved that the report be sent back for an
itemized list of the receipts and expendi-
lures. The motion was carried.
EIENIlONS.
The Board then proceeded to elect a
Superintendent Of the County %lnfirmary.
Captain Plankey, John Quigg and w. J.
Brown were placed in nomination, but the
name of Mr.. Quigg was afterwards with
drawn, and a ballot WIS then taken with
the following result:
Mr.. PIankey received the vote OF Messrs.
Boring, Cummerford, Delbrugge, Maxwell,
Nichols, Price, Stein, Speldel and Stocker
3.
Mr.. Brown received the vote Of Mr.. Presi-
dent-l.
Mrs. Beuter was, after considerable dis
~cussion, elected as nurse in the Hospital
attached to the Infrmary, at a monthly
salary of $40.
The question of salary for the Superin-
tendent OF the lnfi.mary then came up,
and a long discussion ensued over a motion
by Mr.. Speidel increasing the compensa-
ton from $500 TO 81 900. The motion was
finally adopted by a vote Of I ayes 10 3
nays.
William Ranstruth was re elected engin-
eer at the Intirmary at the same salary as
heretofore.
There being no further business the Board
at 20 T. NJ. adjourned.