The San Francisco call., 1898-03-08
His Brother Used as a Catspaw to Rake in Golden
 ChestnutS.
LIABLE TO PUNISHMENT.
Both of the Mansfelds Guilty of a Violation of the State
 Law.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

REDWOOD CITY, March I'm his eagerness to obtain blood money Sheriff Joseph H. Mansfield of San Mateo County caused his brother to commit an act which is felonious and himself committed a crime which the Penal Code places in the same category. These startling facts were brought to light at the session of the Board of Super visors to-day in this city. Among the claims presented for passage was one assigned to the Bank of San Mateo County. It had been originally sub mitted in the name of c. T. Mans field. brother of the Sheriff. It reads as follows:
 February 1-One-half of the. reward of fered by the Board of Supervisors or san Mateo County, December $, 1857, Tor the arrest and conviction of the. party and parties implicated in the murder of C. A. Andrews at Baden, San Mateo County, November r, 1897.
 To arrest and conviction of Harry Win ters, $125.
 The correctness and validity of the claim is attested to by Sheriff Joseph Mansfield, and it was approved by the auditing committee of the Board of Su- pervisors, comprising Supervisors w. H. Brown, Joseph Debenedetti and H. Tilton.
 According to Under Sheriff H. F. Butts the records show that the arrest of Harry Winters was made by Con- stable Disraelli and Sheriff Mansfield. Under the law neither of these gen. tlemen is permitted to claim any of the reward offered by the Supervisors, as the arrest of Winters was made In the regular performance of their duties. This was evidently the motive for mak- ing c. T. Mansfield act as dummy in the case.
 The law bearing on the offense com mitted by C. T. Mansfield is found in section 72 of the Penal Code. It reads as follows:
 Every person who with intent to de- fraud, presents for allowance or for pay ment to any State board or officer, or to board or officer ahfhorized to allow or pay the same if genuine, any false or fraudulent (, claim, 13, bill eaSon account voucher
 Sheriff Mansfield is amenable to pros ecution and punishment under section 113 of the Penal Code, which says:
 Every officer having the custody of any record placed in his hands for any pur pose, who is guilty of falsifying the whole or any part of such record, or who per nlitS any other person so to do, is punish able by imprisonment in the State Prison not less than one nor more than fourteen years.
 Both the Mansfields may be held to answer for their offense under section 115 of the Penal Code. This is as fol- lows:
 Every person who knowingly procures or offers any false or forged instrument to be filed. registered or recorded in any public office within this State, which in strument. if genuine, might be filed or registered or recorded under any law of this State or of the United States. Is guilty of felony.
 Another peculiar feature of this claim is that it was not under the cir cumstances surrounding the case paya- ble to any one for the arrest of Harry Winters. The murder occurred on No vember IT, 1S97 and Winters was ar rested about week later. The re- ward was not offered by the Board of Supervisors of San Mateo County until December 6, 1897, or nearly two weeks after Winters had been arrested.
 When the claim came up in the reg ular course of business with others, question was made as to it's legitimacy, on the ground that the reward applied only to the arrest and conviction of James Wilett. Discussion was avoid ed by the announcement of Chairman McEvoy of the board that the claim was laid over
 It is a matter that will undoubtedly be called to the attention of the Grand Jury and the District Attorney for in- yeStigatiOn and action