The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1884-10-09
Card from Sheriff Cherinrton.

To the Editors of the Standard:
Permit me to say to the people, of this
county, through the columns of your pa
per, that I learn with other things that
Mr. John T. Moore, at the town house of
Bloomfield township, this last week, in
his political speech made the charge that
had drawn from this county several
thousand dollars fees illegally since l
have been in Office, which amount would
cover about all fees l have been paid since
going into Office.
l have always heretofore regarded John
7. Moore as a fair, candid man, regardless
of politics. But coming as this does, I am
compelled to say that Mr.. Moore is not
only mistaken, but is unfair, and knows
positively it is not true. He takes the
amount of moneys paid me, and says he
does not know what it was for. He says
it might be for drinks or it might be for
something else. I say shame on man
that will try to deceive, if he knows bet
ter. John T. Moore has had the freedom
of our jail, and defendedstoo many crimi-
malls to be that ignorant. I have but to
turn to my Jail register to see what /
have gotten some of this money for. Isee
that in the four years previous to me, the
years TT, '7s, 70, and 80, there were three
hundred and siXty-eight persons commit
ted to Jail, and take my three years and
nine months 1 have received six hundred
and twenty-five. The murderers that
have been hung, for which Jackson coun-
ty has paid John T. Moore for defending
every one of them, has been referred to as
burden of costs to our county that ex-
hausted our county fund, but does it more
than equal burden of keeping six hun
dred and twenty-five men in Jail in less
than four years, and most of them kept
there for months? Still it had to be done
and could not be otherwise, so long as
crime came on so rapidly; and it is true
the county pays me for keeping these
men.
Mr. Moore says I received from the
county reward of 5000 for capturing the
Jones boys, when he knows personally l
have never received one dollar reward
from the county for anything. The men
who were with me in the capture autho-
rized me to receipt for them for the re-
ward and make the division, which did,
and they gave me a pro rata share of it,
which amounted to near $50 or $40, and
Jackson county paid me my expenses in
going into Kentucky after them, which
Mr.. Moore knows was legal and right
And I will while at it say other counties
than this pay their sheriff from three to
five hundred dollars for executing a Grim
inal. Jackson county has never paid me
one cent (and have not asked it fol
either execution l have performed. Far
ther, it has never paid me one cent of my
fees in court for the trials of Jackson OF
either of the Jones boys, and would not
mention it now but for the cowardly and
deceitful cry, of me robbing the county OF
its funds. Jackson county, by its com
missioners, also offered a reward of 40(
for the arrest of M. e. keenan,. followed
him for months, to Canada and from
there. through the northwest, ant
brought him back, not for the reward, fol
spent out of my own pocket more thar
three times the amount of the reward
but purely from sense of duty that
must fill if could, and the reward o,
S4OO lies in our county funds untouched
by me, and always will. 1 want no re
ward for what the law says for me to do
Milt was an old army comrade OF mine
and friend Imust always respect. ar