Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-03-31
CITY CLERK HAS
BEEN SUSPENDED

not been used and the council IS
willing to part with them at re-
duced price for cash onlv.
Property Attached.
Late last evening G o. Cutler
was sent to Middlebourue with at
tachment papers to be filled out by
Clerk May6eld against the estate
of Captain Pine. The amount
charged In these papers as being
due from the Captain IS $I9 900
The papers were promptly issued
and last night Mr.. Cutler levied
upon the house and all the proper
ty of Mr. Pine, the Idea being to
have 1t sold to recover as much of
the money from him as can be re-
covered out of his property Of
course the amount charged as
being due, Is only estimated. 1t
may be much more and 1t may be
very much less. The council Is
simply using every means known
to collect and save as much money
as 1t can for the taxpayers Of the
city.
Finance COMMITTEE.
The finance committee composed
of Councllmen Blown, Mol and
Kennedy commenced work this
morning to ascertain so far as they
can the amount the clerk has taken
from the city. E A A.Aggas,is act
Ing In the capacity of an expert
accountant aud he Is said 10 be one
OF the best in this particular line Of
business In this city or section OF
country 1t will take these gentle
men several days 10 get matters
straishteued out
Papers Destroyed,
The finance committee WILL have
a diff lult task to perform II now
that when the City Build
ing was converted into private
enterprise for the use Of the post
office, the vaults In the building
were torn out aod the papers In
them destroyed because they were
no account. In these mo account"
papers were the vouchers and orders
issued for the past two or three
years. and among them were many
orders now claimed to be wrong
and wrongly issued by Clerk Pine.
These papers having been de-
will make the accountants
work very difficult and 1t will be
hard to show a court and jury
wherein the clerk has collected
money not due to him. Another
reason Is this why our city fathers
did wrong 10 making a private In
stitution out of a city building. If
we had obeyed the law, kept the
city building for municipal pur-
poses only we would have had
vaults now and the vouchers and
orders to use In support of the
charges against the clerk. But
there Is no use In finding fault now;
the horse has been stolen and we
are all sharper after the horse is
gone.
The Public.
The people have talked a great
about the downfall of Captain Pine.
1t has been the theme of converse
ton of everybody for many miles
around. His troubles have been
published by yellow journals" In
headlines, followed with
much reading matter that contained
but few real facts. From what we
can learn, the sentiment Of the peo-
pie Is that no one was In the
scheme to get the city's money but
the clerk himself. No one seems
to be disposed to censure any city
officer severely It's true the mayors,
and almost all of our
officers have been careless,bu they
had pure and honest motives and
not the slightest Idea that Capt.
Pine was doing wrong. Many peo.
pie could not understand
where the money all went
too. Even the couucilmen
tried their best to run the affairs OF
the city so as to be as economical
as possible and make the books
balance, bat each year the city
would be In debt. It's plain now
why this was so. Even the audi
tors examined the books and stated
they were correct. In examining
the books last night at the bottom
of page the words are written to
the effect that these books have
been audited by the city auditors
and they have been found correct,