The herald., 1898-01-15
RIVERSIDE COUNTY
RIVERSIDE

RIVERSIDE, Jan 14.-(Regular Cor
respondence.) The mystery of the iden
tity of the dead man found in the river
bottom near this city on December S
has at last been cleared away. He was
| W. F. Shrode of Elsinore. The Ques-
ton was solved today, when Mrs.
Shrode, widow of the dead man, came
| to this city and identified the picture
of him as that Of her missing husband.
Mrs. Shrode went further and, by de-
scriptions of wounds and marks on the
| body of her husband, which cores
ponded with those on the dead man.
established the Identification beyond
doubt. Shrode left Elsinore on Decem-
ber 3. five days before his body was
found, with the intention of going to
Los Angeles. He had left home for
good, while in bad humor over some
family dispute. He had 5000 with him
when he left, but no money was found
on the body, showing that robbery was
the motive for the murder. Mrs. Shrode
says that her husband was a German,
but looked like a Frenchman, which
fits the dead mans case. The officers
now believe that Shrode was followed
from his home to the lonely spot where
the body was found and murdered by
some one who knew that he had money
The g-looked-for report of the
grand jury was handed to the court late
last evening. The document is a volum-
inous one, and some very severe stric-
lures are made on two or three of the
county officials. The official coming in
for the greatest censure Is the county
clerk, who is charged with owing the
county fees to the amount of $1,000. The
jury finds that the amount named has
been accommodating for years, but at the
same time the officer Is not charged
with anything more serious than care
lessness in handling the business of the
office. The principal item of such care
lessness consists in his allowing attor-
neys too much credit in the matter of
fees on papers filed. The discrepancy
will at once be made good by the clerk
The board of supervisors is criticised
for lax methods in not thoroughly ex-
amining bills before allowing them. One
Of the supervisors is charged with hav-
ing drawn SO more mileage than the
jury thought him entitled to each month.
Some comment is made on the extrava-
gance of the management of the county
hospital, but, on the whole, the conduct
of the establishment is commended.
The jury was composed of Republic
ans, with the exception of one man, and
as the report commends the official acts
Of all the Republican officials, while
every Democrat and Populist in the
cou.. house is censured, there is much
said about the apparent partisan politics
shown by the jury. The report suits the
Republican politicians, but the leading
Democrats and Populists denounce the
report as the work of a very one sided
partisan body. which, they say, took ad-
vantage Of the position in which it was
placed to make political capital to be
used by the Republicans in the coming
campaign
A man named McCracken was Jailed
here last night on a warrant from Red
lands, charging him with having COM
mitted the grievous crime of leaving
town without paying board bill of $4
An officer came over from there today
and took McCracken back with him.
John Hall, well-known prospector,
who, with other prominent Riversiders,
own the rich Granite mine out on the
desert, arrived in the city last evening,
after several months stay at the mine
He brings back with him quantity
of ore which is very rich, and which,
it is said, the mine yields in large guam
titles.
T. NJ. White. the Ell Casco man who is
charged with embezzlement for having
sold lot of personal PROPERTY belong
ing to Frank Brown Of thatplace, with
out the latter's consent, will have his