The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-07-16
CORRUPTION IN PATERSON.
MANY FREEHoLDERs OF PAss4TC
COUNTY INDICTED.
A Sharp Presentmrnt Mai. Covering n
wide Range OF sSuhIects-Thc Number OF
Indicted Persons said to Kc About %.

| A Sharp Presentmrnt Mai. Covering "a
Wide UnoEe OF suhlects-Thc Number oi
| Indicted Persons said to Kc About %.
In Paterson yesterday tho Grand Jury Of
the county OF Passaic rado u presentment
sharply nrraigning county officials. and also
indicted noary score 81 these officials and
others in connection with the mismanagem
OF county affairs. In the presentment the
jurors say their Investigations included tho
electric light contracts. road contracts, the
general conduct OF county officials in regard
to their Official duty. the purchase OF rev
Court House site. and tho general disburse-
mont OF the county's money. They found q
looseness prevailing In the couuty's affairs
that had astonished them. They found sew
eral Offices drawing five or six times their
annual salaries for extra work" They OK
pressed belief that many other indictments
should be found than those that thcy had
found. but said that they had not becn able to
obtain substantial evidence in any cases other
than those thoy had found. They expressed n
belief that much Of tho bad condition OF Affairs
was due to a law that allowed the changing of
money from ono appropriation to another
They thought also that the people we're greatly
TO blame for cccting such incompetent and
INSCRIPTIONS men to Office.
Warrants for the arrest OF tho indicted per-
sons we're handed to the Sheriff. NOTHING. but
rumor can DO obtained as to who the per sons
are before they arc taken into custody. and
the Sheriff Win probably not arrest any OF
them until tomorrow. The indications are
that they will all he arragnch before Judge
Hopper on next Wedn csdAy. There seems to
We no indication OF any o. the indicted men
trying to escnre arrest. There are so many in
the net that they apparently have an idea that
the nrshes will give way. II is believed that
there arc about seventeen indictments In all.
but as In some cnsos there are probably sew
ernl against while in other cases II is
| likely that entire committees are included In
ono indictment 1t is imp3ssihe toarrive at any
twenty-five, The investigations Of the Grand
| sides members OF tho present Hoard Of Free
holders and present county officials. there are
resentment found indicates t. !. hesTee tho
who wE.hr there to II
been fraud there was necessarily fraud on
both sides, and the eontraITtors are nroon,ly in
Of the CONTRACTORS. The Court House site
matters investigated win necessarily involve
persons only dinirectly connected with tho
i IS VIII known that $4,000 was recent,
House site when there was no money TO buy 1t
was cxorbItant.. II is known that $4,000 VAS
House when there was no money. to build it
with. Its known that n number Of useless Of
fees We're created for tho purpose OF apreas-
ing political workers 1t Is, generally
believed that the prices raid In. cleo;
that great deal moro road work wac paid for
than was ever done. The jurors in their pre-
sentiment. said they had found that roads had
been built through private property at public
expense. 1t Is said that tho earth excavatad
in order to macadamize a road was In one in
stance cartcd n considerable distance to fiji in
the low places in tho land Of one Of the private
owners. All these things are generally
tai cd about that people have already formed
Il pretty strong opinion as to who the indicted