The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1908-05-25
EI'LEOD AGAINST COMMAS
S[ONERS.

and Finance to Intervene and
Interplead Matter to be Ar
gued Before Judge Long in
Lumberton Next Monday
Reasons for Asking to be AL
lowed to Come in as Parties
Defendant.
Mention was made in Thurs
days Robesonian Of the action
of the county board Of audit and
finance in moving to strike out
the order of reference made in
the suit of ex-Sheriff Geo. B.
Mcleod against the county board
of commissioners, and to be al
lowed to come in as parties de-
PENDANT. Judge Long held up
the order and continued the mo-
ton and the matter was to have
been heard Thursday afternoon,
but it was not taken up until Fri
day morning. The board of au-
dit and finance submitted an aft
davit, reproduced below, and the
matter was argued for a while
by counsel on both sides, but as
the attorneys for ex-Sheriff Nc
Leod and the commissioners said
they had not had sufficient time in
which to prepare affidavits the
case was continued and will be
heard by Judge Long in Lumber
ton one week from today. Fol
lowing is the application of the
board of audit and finance to in
tervene and interplead:
APPLICATION OF THE BOARD OF
AUDIT AND FINANCE.
A. B. Pearsall, being duly
sworn, deposes and says:
% That by an act Of tn
General Assembly of North Car
: Dina Of 1907, affiant, Graham
McKinnon and J. NJ. Butte
were duly elected and appOinte'
members Of the board Of audi
, and finance Of Robson count
= for the term Of two years, Wit
Y certain powers and duties cor
ferred upon said board of audi
and finance, which will be foun
set out in chapter 488 Of the Pull
lie Laws of North Carolina, Ses
sion 1907; that thereafter affair
S and the said McKinnon and Blu
= Ter duly qualified as members
e said board by taking the oath {
l., Office prescribed, and entered III
:, on the duties of their office
u April, 1907, afiant being electe
= chairman of said board, Graha1
r. McKinnon, secretary, and affian
J. Graham McKinnon and ]. n
70 Butler have been since Apr
~ 1907, and are now the duly col
e stituted and qualified membe
Of said board of audit and f
nance.
y a. That among the dutit
7. enjoined upon the board Of aud
a and finance was that Of inquirir
Il into and investigating the co.
~ duct in office Of all public office
a of the county of Robson, and
as report to the board of counr
S. commissioners and to the SOLE
IN tor of the district any misappr
priation of public funds, viol
ton of law, or any malfeasan
in office by any public officer.
g. That very soon aft
qualification they began an inve
or LEGATION into the conduct of q
n fairs by the public officers
Robson county, and on Decor
Der Fl, 1907, they made and pu
lished their report, said repo
re being based upon sworn ties
mony taken before them, shO'
he ing numerous violations of t
~. law by the commissioners of t
~ county, and by ex-Sheriff N
IS Leod; that a copy Of this repC
gs was a few days thereafter deli
Mt cred to the board Of commissiC
~ ers, and later a copy was del
e. cred to N. A. Sinclair, solicit
lily of this judicial district; that
copy of the evidence, all of
he being sworn to, upon which t
lin said report was based, was a
r delivered to the commissions
ID through their attorneys, Mess
we Mcintyre and Lawrence, and "
by also delivered to ex-Sheriff \
ma Leod through his attorne
no Messrs Mcintyre and LaWren
w. who, as they stated in two &C
'e' munications addressed to
board of audit and finance, r
lis, scented, as attorneys, the boz
ag- Of commissioners and also
Sheriff Mcleod.
a. That this report, and
ent evidence upon which it '
err based, has been in the hands
m. the board of county commissi
tho ers since about the 1st of Jan
fol ~, 1910, anu IndI no acClOn
hOi been taken thereon, as affian
ma informed and believes, althO1
be the said report charged,
DOL, against the county commissi
ted. ers, that they were then, and
cont been all the time since Il
n qualification, drawing illegal
d. diem and mileage; that they W
the drawing compensation from
county for alleged services
,o+;o formed when the board was
"Cic in session; that they had
IN parties to contracts with
ided county in which many thouss
cor. of dollars were involved;
rho they had drawn from the pl