The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1898-03-11
THE COUNTY COURT NEWS
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rant for the Columbia Brewing Co.
MINOR NOTES.
Letters Of administration were granted to
VIM Eckert on the estate of Bonneville
EcEert, late of the borough of Schuylkill
Haven, deceased.
Letters testamentsry were granted to John
and George Arnout on the estate of Samuel
c. Arnout late of the borough of St. Clair,
deceased
deed was recorded for the transfer of
premises in Ashland from Ellen Farrell to
VIM. +. Hoan.
A marriage license was issued to Harvey
franklin Herb and Della Maurer, both of
pitman, Pa.
Suits for services rendered have been en-
tered in the Prothonotary's Office by Mrs.
Clara f. Kopp and Mrs Ellen C.. Faith
against the estate of the late Marguerite
Thies
Patrick Malone and Thomas Devine were
found guilty of larceny and malicious mis-
chief as charged By Peter Kreiger. Malone
was sentenced to pay the costs, s. fine and
one years imprisonment. Devine was com
mitted to the Huntington Reformatory.
COMMISSIONER MEYERS TRIAL.
Chief Clerk Reber resumed the witness
stand before Judge Bechtel this morning and
at 1880 o'clock he was excused after search
ing examination begun on Wednesday at
noon. He stood the ordeal in Il creditable
manner reserving the evenness of his
temper and department throughout. His
latest evidence related to the alleged division
of the $l60 bill for printing from the JOurnal
into two bills of 800 and $40 each, the last
bill being marked balance by Commis
sioner Rentz. The prosecution claimed this
to be against the spirit of tho Controller Act,
which requires advertisements for bids for
material costing 800, or more. The defense,
of course, denied this
Under date of June 25. 1897, the minutes
show bids were advertised for to furnish as
sessment books to the number of l2S, or
rather that the Controller was instructed to
advertise for bids On June 2S the order
was recinded and the newspaper was awarded
the contract at sos
This testimony brought Attorneys Smith
and Berger to their feet and they demanded d
that it be stricken out, because it was not
mentioned in the bill Of particulars. The
court struck it out,
The evidence showed that no cash book
was kept by the Commissioners during 1897
for tallying the tab on the receipts of the
county treasury, and this it is urged, is
loan account examination was long and
tedious, tending to prove that there was no
logical or complete record of the loans on the
minutes.
The witness admitted that Commissioner
Meyers was the only Commissioner present
on July II, 1897, when it was apparently by
the minutes passed making a temporary
loan for $50, 600 Mr.. Reber explained by
saying that he had told tho other Commits
>luners few days before this date that note
for that amount was coming due and they
had decided at that time to renew the loan
by q resolution. Mr.. Schalck insisted that
the minute was false one and that it helped
to sustain the charge of keeping defective
minutes.
)Ir. Reber was then put through search
ing examination as to the exact words of eI
Counsel Ulrich when he threatened the
Commissioners with suit if they did not agree
to pay him $500 more, because of his claims
that he was only allowed to serve two year
in the position of counsel, when he had beer
expressly elected for three years, Mr.. Reber's
recOllectiOns were very vague on this subject
aud nothing very positive could be brought
out.
Mr. schalck Didn't Mr. Ulrich say h,
would put them to Jail if they didn't pay
him the $500?
Mr. Reber: He said something like that,
but can't remember exactly what. He
said be would expose them. | heard after
wards he told parties he would put them to
jail.
Attorney Smith: You were not asked
what you heard from other persons. COntine
yourself to the questions.
Ex-Clerk Of the Courts A. J. Shortall was
the next witness and was on the stand but
fifteen minutes. HI told of the beginning of
the investigation of the Taxpayers Assocla
tion at the Commissioners Office on July g.
1897 He found the temporary loan notes
nd nd aar in Ii fla
box, but they were mixed as to dates. Their,
were some of tho notes and carbon copies
missing that have not been found yet. The
cross-eXamination was very brief.
Burd w. Payne, Deputy Controller, was
called and asked about the contract Of VIM
j. Bast for the almshOuse plumbing, which
has mysteriously disappeared since the last
trial, at which it was put in evidence.
The witness swore he had searched every.
whore for it, but it was without avail. He
further testified about the payment of bills
for extras on the almshouse contracts
and when asked about advertisements
or whether it might have been published for
Clerk Reber's testimony yesterday he said
he had sent for the records and would upon
their receipt, say positively whether such
advertisements had been published, or not,
The temporary loans for 1897 amounted to
$2l30 and the rate of interest paid upon
them from 4 to per cent. Most of these
loans were made with the Safe Deposit Bank
Of Pottsyille. When the records arrived
witness Payne examined them and then ad.
mitted that the bids were not asked for the
materials furnished by Messrs. Mcconnell &
LoepeI, of Ashland, nor for the j. F. Buch-
anan & Co., Daniel McGurl, McGinuess
Smith q Company, extras on the Aims
house contracts. There were no bids
asked for the Contest Court printing until
March 20, 1897 and no advertisements were
made for several bills for stationery amount
ing each TO more than 500.
NO APPOINTMENTS.
There will he no unseemly scramble for
the deputyihips and clerkships involved by
the resignation of tho Controller and Com.
mssioners, because all the appointments with
the exception of the Prison Warden and
other Jail appointments have been made for
IA year and have been virtually confirmed by
the court. The Judges, it is positively
assured, will not allow the history of the
present movement to be blurred by any
indecorOus scramble for spoils
Daughters MonstrOus Charge Untrue
Lancaster, Pa, March 11.-Jacob
Waltman, Of Columbia, who was re-
Gently charged by his daughter with
her ruination, and railroaded through
court and convicted, will escape the
penitentiary through the confession of
his daughter that he is innocent. on
the witness stand she told a horrible