Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-04-15
EXCITING MEETING THIS MORNING

EXCITING MEETING IFfiS MOnNlN6s Constables and Lawyers Indulge in .
 Red Hot Personal Discussion.
 When the members of the board of health came together this morning little did they expect that it would be a red hot meeting, and filled with accusations of underhand work.
 Dr O'Hara reported to the board that he had discovered another nuisance on the land of B. S. Hotchkiss, where over twenty dead horses had been left ex- posed, He ordered them buried and the work was being done as rapidly as
 Selectman Pinney presented bills of Dr O Hara and Harry Moses and they were referred to Senator Root and At torney Burpee as an auditing com mittee.
 Attorney Kellogg started the fun by asking Chairman O'Neill if they were holding a legal meeting. The chair man replied that individually he thought it was, but if they would give him a retainer of $25 he would look up authority on the matter.
 No one voted on the question to ap- point Senator Root and Attorney Bur pee an auditing committee, and so the chairman declared it a tie vote and voted for the committed.
 The report of the committees ap- pointed to clean out the pjggery was then read and accepted. The amount of expense incurred was $352.22. It was voted that the health officer be in- structed to notify Barnard & Son to re- move the nuisances near Mad river. Attorney Kendrick moved, and it was carried, that the attorneys for the town proceed at once to have the injunction served on the selectmen be dissolved. Sheriff Mcdonald arose at this point and the merry war began. He declared that there was some underhand work going on, and the members of the board should find it out. He said constable, | (meaning Constable Egan,) told him that Chairman O'Neill had telegraphed him (Eganl in Hartford to keep out of the matter and not have anything to do with cleaning out the piggery, as there was more money on the Ward side.
 Chairman O'Neill denied ever saying or doing anything of the kind.l
 Constable Egan was present and in spite of the protest of some of the lawyers, who said he was out of order, he demanded the right to refute what he declaRed a deliberate falsehood on the part of Sheriff Mcdonald. He said it was downright lie.
 At this point the dispute waxed hot and Chairman O'Neill finally called Ieverybody to order. .. | Attorney Bronson here arose and said that it had been intimated to him tha Attorney o. .Neill was connected in the action against the town. This was denied by the chairman. When ques- tioned as to the legality of the present legal.
 Il Senator Root scored the lawyers who
 would pretend one thing and do another. He would stand by whatever acts the committee appointed by the board had done and so should every at torney. Not one present should aid or assist Ward in his case.
 The chairman did not think that this
 was fair. He cited where City Attor- Iney Burpee was in Hartford working for the Benedict 6 Burnham Manufac- turing company on their water supply, against the interests of the city. He did not deny that he had a general re- tainer from Ward for two years. Up to the present time he had sided with the
 board in all thelr acts. He denied hav- ing voted on any question, however, and if the acts were illegal he could not
 be held responsible. He admitted that
 the injunction served on the selectmen was prepared in his office.
 . It looked at this point as if a new chairman would be demanded. Judge Cowell was glad that now the public , would know that he was not Wards attorney. He moved that the board } support each and every one who as- sisted in the removal of Wards piggery. , and 1t was SO voted. '>.' ... The question of proceeding criminaIly against Ward then came up.. Attorney IO'Neill said it was question of delicacY
 with him how he could proceed against his own client. After some discussion , as to why the town should not bear the expense Judge Cowell moved that the
 law committee of the common council request Attorney Burpee to proceed
 against Ward. It was moved then by
 Mayor Webster that the same committee
 in the piggery case draw off the water
 from the pond and see If any further
 nuisance existed in the bottom. , Constable Rigney wanted to know , what to do with the forty-s pigs oi Wards which he held. Here Attorney IO'Neill said the committee had gone too far and should not have removed the pigs. It was voted, however, to leave
 the matter to the town attorney. Int meeting then adjourned until next Sat urday.
 . WARD SECURES AN INJUNCTION. Judge s. O.. Prentice of the superior court has, on the application of Dr C. Art Ward, granted temporary injunc
 
 l town of Waterbury from paying the ex l penses incurred by the removal oi . Wards once noted piggery. The papers
 are returnable before the superior court l on May 2. Dr Ward in the application 3 admits that he had between fifty anG 2 sixty pigs in seven pens and that tht 3 filth arising from keeping them found [ it's way into the Mad river and defileG it's waters. He alleges that on April body of men styling themselves thu 2 board of health met in Waterbury ana
 decided that this piggery was . hui . sance, and ordered it abated by tho f plaintiff without any notice to thu ! plaintiff or giving him an opportunity f to be heard. On April 8 this self styled e board of health ordered a committee tC remove the piggery and report the ex a pense of doing the same to the board oi 2 health. Ward continues that the select
 men have threatened to pay these ex
 penses and he, as a citizen, prays ou
 this injunction that they be forbidder to do so on the ground that the actionl { of that board of health were void, be