The San Francisco call., 1897-11-18
LORICAN
GRAVELY
ACCUSED
Is Charged With Pro-
teCting a Corrupt
Justice.
HE SAYS 1T IS " ALL
BOSH."
Suits Brought by the Board
of Supervisors to Re-
cover Fees.
ACTIONS TO COVER ADMIT
TED MALFEASANCE.
Condition Of Affairs Under Whic h
the Grand Jurors Have Grown
Decidedly Festive.
Suits Brought by the Board
of Supervisors to Re-
cover Fees.
ACTIONS TO COVER ADMIT
TED MALFEASANCE.
Condition Of Affairs Under WhIc h
the Grand Jurors Have Grown
Decidedly Festive.
Special Dispatch TO TEE CALI.

SAN JOSE, Nov. 17.-W. G. Lorigan,
Presiding Judge of the Superior Court of
The county OF Santa Clara, is accused by q
member OF the Grand Jury now IN session
in this city OF having stood between ex-
Justice OF the Peace w. H. Dwyer and
nat inquisitorial body to prevent Dwyer's
Indictment
Judge Lorigan is a cand idate for place
IN the bench of the Supreme Court OF
/ aGfOrnia.
]. justice to him it must be stated that
: ,-.r members of the Grand Jury believe
nas justified in the course he pursued,
and the Judge himself, in an interview
with the correspondent of The CALL, when
told Of he aspersions made on his honor,
disdainfully dismissed the accusation in
few words.
"Oa, that's all bosn," he declared.
Indictments against two other Justices
OF the Peace of this county we're only pre-
vented by their promising to reform their
illegal methods and 10 make restitution
OF the amounts they had already procured
from the county in violation OF the Jaw.
These two officials are JUS ice J. D.
Beggs Of Los Gatos and Justice |. Her
rington of Santa Clara. Thes9 promises
ware made to the Grand Jury. 1t was
charged before the Grand Jury that u e
two Justices and the ex-Justice already
named had been Systematically obtaining
from the county fees and moneys to which
they were not entitled by law.
In the case Of Dwyer it was charged
that he had not only retained fees TO
which he had no shadow of right, but had
EN- bezzled bail, fine acd costs and moneys
collected from litigants which should
have been turned into the county
treasury.
Ex-Justice Dwyer, it will be remem-
bered, Is now under Punishment from the
county Of Santa Clara He was arrested
some months ago on another charge, and
the evidence against him said to be con-
elusive, but the charge was not pressed on
, the understanding that DwYer should
" We the county never TO return.
\ Justice Harrington is a brothe. of B. A.
Herrington, the District Attorney of
Santa Clara County, on whom would de-
volve the duty of prosecuting any per-
sons against whom the Grand Jury might
find indictments This fact is acknow-
edged Dy some Of the members of the
Grand Jury to have Influenced them in
showing Ieniency in this matter.
These matters have been under investi-
CATION by the Grand Jury for the past six
months Attention was first directed to
them by Charles Keane who had been the
clerk in Justice Dwyer's court, and who is
now in the employ of the Supervisors of
this county as an expert. In the report
which Keane submitted to the Grand Jury
transactions were covered extending over
the thirty months from January l. 1895. TO
July 7, 1897.
In the case of Dwyer, this report shows
that $31 90, collected as fines in five differ
ent cases, had not been accounted for;
that $335 cash bail collecied were unac-
counted fer; that $18 had been collected
and retained fer SIX search warrants is
sued, for whicu the charge should have
been but 50; that $27 had been collected
in insanity cases. over which Justice
courts have no jurisdiction, this being a
matter entirely and exclusively within
the jurisdiction Of the Superior Court;
that 1916 had be en- collected for fees in
eighty-two cases, which fees had already
been collected by Justice Beggs; that $120
had been similarly obtained in forty
cases after the same amounts had been
collected in the same cases by Justice
Harrington.
4 In this report it is charged that on
March l, 1896 F. Wilson swore TO twenty
we complaints against different persons
AAd that these complaints were not
entered on the docket of the court, nor
was there any record of the warrants be.
ing returned.
In the case of Beggs the report shows
that $246 had been collected in ghty-two
cases where the tee bad also been collect
ed by Dwyer; that $I29 had been collected
and retained in forty-three cases where
Justice Harrington had also relieved the
county in the same amount; that $63 had
been collected as fees in twenty one cases
OF drunkenness, for which no fees are al