The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-05-09

WHITEWASH GALORE
Grand Jury Makes an In
vestigation and Exon
crates Everyone.
WEST HOBOKEN OFFICIALS ALL RIGHT
No Foundation for Charges Against
Hackensack Turnpike and the
Prosecutors Office
Blameless.

The Grand Jury yesterday afternoon
handed UP several indictments to Judge
Lippincott, and through it's foreman,
Mr.. w. w. Coffin. made he following
important presentment which His Honor
ordered read by Clerk Gritten and MADE
public. He also ordered a copy OF 1t TO
be sent to the Council of West Ho-
boken:-
..To the Honorable Court of Oyer and
Terminer:-
The Grand Jury now sitting. feel i'm
PEELED by a sense of justice to immedl-
ately present to you the following state
ment. AS instructed by you. we have
made an investigation of the financial
affairs of the town of West Hoboken. as
searching as practical. and lave devoted
to it much time. All complaints and
rumors seem to be based on the accounts
Of Thomas Nolan. Treasurer. during
1854.
bitter feeling against Mr.. Nolan. ana
testimony showed that some OF them
s~instigated articles that appeared IN a
paper called the North HUDSON Leader
BY testimony it was shown that an ex-
pert spent four months in an exainina a
ton Of the towns financial affairs. a1s-
Ian and rewriting the different accounts.
His report shows that he. with Mr.. C n as;
yo;,on solyom r. ts ssam geneqal a ledger n auiua.
erous errors were discovered. yet after
such were corrected the actual dlifer-
ehe TH mss Du WvAss NoT A DEFICIT.
ut was not shown that this was a
deficit. Testimony showed that but once
2 year was q sta de eanb r find but si that
time for time for many years reports
Of a like nature TO that which was con
We're presented BY the council, The only
one now at hand is that of Mr.. Charles
H. G%albraith, Treasurer. lSs43S5, Wnos
balance, $50, S29. 21. OF what this consists
&c be divided as follows:-s;choaeollss al nd nd
t town PURPOSES poses $50. So. II: total, s5s,S2s q.
A statement like this IS insuifieient. -
1T does not show the condition OF
f prIated TO T Mnic Wo mane Town Vas purposes, we
which should, be kept sacredIy apart for
general use. Against this. Counesilmen
Voted drafts which they expected ed ian, and q
as there was a dollar in the treasury;
Such has been the custom for years, and
1 for many TEse %o% fnneaial p atrsirs n this daa town VI
were managed as the books were Kept
in a most un~businesslike and unsafe
WANT COMPETENT BooKKEEPERs.
I'VE recommend to the council Of that
town that competent persons a. onee
be employed 50 that the entire 1lnanciaI
promised by the Auditing Committee Of
iss4.5; That is; 50 that at at atbs 5IgIgllng wifi IF
s &c preVsnt ieien and by or w ilefrW the true rue
financial condition of the town will be
clearly shown An Auditing Committee
know from PERSONAL knowledge thai the
s vouehedpif for. and By oertlfieates from
certain positively if balances are cash.
bonds of a myth. We are aware that
by law, expenditures are confined within
serious penalty IS attached to it's yiola-
| ton. and we believe it the duty of Grand
Juries to see to it that this law IS en-.
corruption was in no way claimed. Wit.
nesses sought to argue and assert, but
there was no corroborative proof.
there was not one item of evidence that
the Town Of West Hoboken. had been in
any ways wronged by the Council of
who would swear that e~x-Treasurer
Thomas Nolan had by his acts defrauded
that town or that there was due from
so we dismiss the case and an mani
NOUS vote present to you this state
PRosEcUToR's OFFICE ExoNER-
"As requested by the Court we haye
Hackensack Turnpike Company, and re-
speetfuiiy report the anne to be in good
covered any lust sense of complaint.
1--WE have made a thorough investiga-
ton of the. facts and circumstances
documents from the office of the Prose
cutor of Pleas. These documents were
intended to ave been used as evidence
| Water Board indicted for conspiracy.
they disappeared from a closet in which
they were kept. The door Of the closet
| WINGED after careful scrutiny and con-
sideration that neither the Prosecutor
| nor anyone employed by him in his office
ic in anv way cenSurable for this loss"