The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1901-11-27
Hits Other County officials.

Hits Other County Officials.
sioners and county attorney come in for
share Of the condemnation. Jan. 18,
1900, the public examiner found illegal
charges for copies of venires, subpOenas,
ETC., and so reported to the county COM
missioners. The sheriff continued to pre-
sent such bills, the county commissioners
approved them, "and each and every claim
OF this nature is ornamented with the
%. X Of the county attorneys Office
to use the language of Deputy Koerner.
AS to Schedule B, the sheriff charged
81 for falling to serve papers, while the
law only allowed so cents for effective
service.
The most that should be allowed for
conveying prisoners to the workhouse is
mileage, SO cents. Megaarden has charged
So and the public examiner compromises
at 81, but suggests that all such removals
could be made free by the Black Maria
Schedule D is charges for deputies at
tending grand juries at night, and there
is no record to show that any such serv-
ice was ever performed.
On this item 1t is recommended that
such bills be audited by the county COM
miSSiCners.
Schedule shows charges for attending
municipal court. All prisoners are taken
charge Of by city police officers, and the
charge of 81 for each case, says the re-
port, ''is false and illegal, and only an
other way Of looting the county treasury
as his attention was called to these
charges in a former report"
Schedule F consists of duplicate charges
for compliments. ''It would SEEM" SAYS
the report that in a county Office where
perQuisites are so large a single payment
would satisfy the incumbent
Schedule G. consists of cha rpeq thai ara
properly claims upon the state, but have
been paid by the county Illegally.
Schedule H shows charges for railroad
fares and team hire, which are covered in
the mileage allowed.
Schedule I consists of charges allowed,
but not legal, for patrolling cycle paths,
looking up evidence, watching insane and
hauling confscated gambling parapher-
MALTA.
Schedule J consists of charges for va
rious services, which should be paid di-
rect to the parties rendering the service.
There is nothing to show how much was
furnished, and for whom. and dupli-
cate bill might have been allowed
Next comes series of schedules show
ing overcharges for conveying prisoners
or children to state institutions. In most
cases deputies did not go at all. Full
fare is charged for small children, and a
deputy for each child, though several
were taken at once. Says the report:
Shows WiIfuI Fraud.
The foregoing should convince the most
skeptical that these acts on the part of the
sheriff are not unintentional mistakes or over
sights, but are deliberate, w1lful, malicious,
fraudulent acts, permeated with corruption
and designed to rob the taxpayers for the pur-
pose Of gratifying the greed OF enc in whom
they have reposed confidence. Such acts are
considered not only a betrayal Of trust, but
the official committing the same is guilty un
der the laws of the state Of perjury and
felony
Schedule consists of personal prop
erty taxes paid before September, 1900,
and not covered into the county treas
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