Arizona silver belt., 1888-04-28
CHARGES AGAINST TIE stPERyIsOEs.

CHARGES AGAINST THE SUPERVISORS
 The reference by J. H. Paseoe, s. R.
 Epley and C. H. Kenyon, a committee
 of the Grand Jury appointed to inves-
 tigate the Board of Supervisors, re-
 ported that the Supervisors author
 ized A. Kinney to have man to build
 footbridge south of town, m cem-
 pliance to petition, all of which we
 find contrary to law. We also find
 that there is no mention made Tn the
 minutes Of bridge belng built north
 of town, or any action of the Board
 relating thereto. o.' Whereupon the
 Grand Jury found indictments against
 Joseph Redman, Alfred Kinney and
 Louis Sultan upon the committees
 supposed infraction of law, and upon
 being being arraigned the defendants
 plead not guilty, and announced them
 selves ready for trial, and the prose
 cutiOn also being ready for trial jury was lmpanneled and the case pro
 ceeded with, and Tn accordance with
 the instruction of the Court verdict
 of acquittal was rendered and the prisoners discharged from arrest.
 The charge in the committees re- port-of criminality on the part of the Board of Supervisors for paying for two sets of bepa1ISs-4satt bonds sat SG5 each, is so awarIed, 6pon explanation, as to cut no figure against tue accused. The impression that might be conveyed to persons uninformed, by this allusion of the committee, is that>two bonds of . S65 each were paid as an indebtedness incurred by the county.
 The facts are these: The bonds re- ferred to were those issued by the I and negotiated in St. I Louis, for the construction of the [ 'ourt house. These bonds, aggrega- i ing $10G0G. were advertised for sale. | according to law, and in due time a oid of 96 per cent of their face value C vas received from Wm. Bagnell, of a St. Louis, which beng the only bld Y made, was accepted by the Board. t The bonds were filed out and for II varded to St. Louis, but upon exam d nation by Mr. Bagnell, owing, as he I laimed, to their beng made payable y o him personally, instead of to bear f; r, and the form of the bonds not be- fl ng to his liking (although the form n Fas expressly stated in the advertise n lent of the bonds), Mir. Bagnell re- u used to receive them. As there was fl o way to hold him to his bid, the ot onds were returned to Globe and de- te troyed, and new set ordered printed m I San Francisco. They were again
 ayertised, and again the only bidder
 as Mir. Bagnell. who reduced his bld
 ) 95, which the Board was compelled D accept. This is briefly the history
 the bonds referred to by the con- - ittee of the Grand Jury. T
 When the Board of Supervisors had tL atermined to build twS footbridges co cross Plnal creek, one north and one th 'uth of town. they got estimates from W arious parties on the stone work, the T west being $50. This the Board u aemed exorbitant, and competent fe en were hired by the day, who, un- bt er the supervision of Mir. Kinney,
 ,mpleted the stone work at cost of - P, thus efecting a saving to the dt 'unty of SIS! D In revlew of the matters herein re- co rred to, had parties participant been th .wyers, misunderstanding of the ju " would not have occurred and, in Jl cad of the acrimonious feeling that di ow exists, better impression would pl revail, and we would still be the di appy family which those indictments th ave so unhappily disturbed. cl