Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-03-28
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The bill is said to bo in Hollinger's own
handwriting. and az Tipstaf Hollinger
sometimes acts az deputy shetitI-and is
also n deputy United States marshal
County Solicitor Fry, TO whom the com
missiouers referred tho bill, refused to ap
prove the same upon tho discovery that
lIollingcr had charged aud been paid for
% days service in court az tipstah during
the month OF October.
As court did not meet on Sunday during
October. aud as Hollingcr's OiIl for dis
martling tho iish pots Includes no sun
days IL follows that--if 1t Is tho same
HollingoT-he was engaged for Ht least
twenty three day in dismautlius fish pots
and at the same time disCharRing the
duties Of tipstan.
At the nearest point tho Susquehanna
river ia ten miles from tho court house /;
and uOllingGr is not an incOrporeal sub
stanGe-not by large maiurlty-nor has
he, 80 far as is known, any supcrnatu-
raj faculty, which will enable him To be
in two places at the same timc-WOrking
for tho sheriff in the aTduuus and hazard
Gus duty OF dIsmautinC fish pots along
the Susquchauna at s. per day, aud dis
charging his duty to the couit Ia main
tanning order and fetching tobacco for the
lawyers at 50 per day.
An Iresistiblo Conclusion.
One Of several conclusions is, therefore,
irresistible Either these two arc not
tho samO U0llingCr, or, if they are,-aud
the indications are strongly that way-he
could not have been discharging the
duties OF both positions on the same day ;
he must have imposed on the court or the
sheriff, or both or the sheriff IL trying to
impose upon the county.
l,;a d. al nd
tilation. When ilUllnger explains how he
couli render tho services as tipstaH, for
which the county has paid him, end ut the
samo timO tho services along tho river for
which ho receipts at 50 per day to the bhGTitl
and which the sheriff asks the county "a
repay him-after this 1t will be III order u
inquire whether tho services were ever
rendered at all, whether any fish pots were
ever dismantled, whether SO per day for 4
tpstaft aud 50 per day for n fish POT
dismantler arc fair or exorbitant wages.
1t is in order for the court to investigate
what seems to have been an "impostiou
practced upon u, aud although editors
who olce had the temerity to indulge Ia
such suggestion ard to comment severely
upon tho courts failure TO take cOgni
zlnco of It,, fell under that courts ban, the
suggestion Is renewed.
j. A. EIollinger J. A. Hollingor j
A. Hollinger Take the witness stand
Atthe court House.
Upon inquiry at the court house it wa
learned that the tipstayes' bills for las
October were IN the hands of the count!
auditors, who are not in session to da,
and have them locked up. An examina.
tiOn, however, of a copy of one of thes'
bills for a week in October showed uol
hnger's name on il for full time-six day
in the week-at So per day, substantiatir
the statement Of those who say that IL
drew full pay for 26 days in that month.
Deputy Sheriff llippey says that Ia
knows OF HOlluger being employed by til
sheriff at dismantling fish pots durin
October, and he believes the work to haV
been done aud the money earned ~ pa
the bill presented by Sheriff High. As &
Hollinger's drawing pay as tilstaif durin
the same period he was not prepared a
present to explain that, but it might b,
oxplairel at the proper timo. To tho sug
geston that possibly he worked o. night
on the river and in day time at court, tn
obliging deputy intimated that possibly
might be disclosed that during Hollinger'
absence at his So per day occupation
might have been excused by the court G
somebody connected with 1t from tn
duties of his SO per day office. To sug
gestiOn that, in that event, his pay as tip
staff should have stopped, the amiab
deputy answered that he could not answt
all tho conundrums that any ono migl
ask,