The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1908-01-10
An Open Letter
. Voters of winn Parish:

Sut CaupaiSu Scfldiu aTeiCiSS nav
appeared in the public press, ant
certain statements have beer
made by individuals aimed a
some of my official acts.
These matters have been blown
considerably in some parts of th'
parish and you have a right t.
correct information about them
without any reference to the APP
preaching election.
| haze nothing to conceal, anC
will give the information that 1
certain party writing for the pub
lie in one of the papers of the
parish wants.
1t has been stated by some par.
ties that L have received payment
on claims for service that | was
not entitled to.
For the information of those
who don't happen to know, all
claims for any moneys received
from the public are presented
either to the Police Jury or the
District Judge and approved, be-
fore they are paid to me or any
other individual.
/ feel that this matter is a re-
proach on the integrity of this
body as much so as myself, and
any charge that had received
claims that j am not entitled to is
a reflection on these gentlemen as
much as myself and | think the
majority of the people of the par
ish feel and know that we have an
honorable and painstaking Police
Jury and l now resent this charge
for them as we'll as for myself.
The claim that has been men,
toned particularly is a claim of
SIS for mileage for arresting
prisoner at Aloha, and Aloha only
.2S miles from Winnheld.
Hugh Phillips was the man ar
rested at Aloha. This was of
course outside of the parish and
the law fixes the compensation at
10 cents q mile for every mile
actually travelled by sheriff or
deputy in making an arrest out
side of the parish, 5 cents for
every mile in returning prisoner
from point of arrest to the parish
Jail and all necessary expenses.
Under this l should have col
lected:
% miles travelled by r. p. Madden at .Ioc s. 500
los miles travelled by J. J. Payne ct loc. 1850
Hack hire paid by r. p. Madden. -----.-. 400
% miles returning to parish Jail at cents
by Deputy J. ]. Payne.-----.-.-----.---.-. l.5o
ssaI0
Does this have the appearance
of an over paid claim?
Now, since this claim was COL
lected by me, Hugh Phillips, this
defendant who had plead guilty
in the meantime and at the time
of the approval of the claim, was
in Jail serving his sentence; paid
the unserved part of his fine, all
the costs, including this SIS. and
this same overpaid and monstrous
claim was paid by me back to the
parish in the October 1907 SETTLE
ment.
Why has not the whole story of
this claim been told? / leave the
fair-minded people of the parish
TO answer.
/ have always been fair and
liberal in making claims for GRIM
inal work. and / make the asser-
tson that my expense bill for maxi
Ing arrests outside the parish is
less than that of any sheriff In this I
section of the State compared to
heamount of arrests made. While
use every legitimate effort to
arrest every man charged with a
Eims. e the same time l always
DO it with the least cost possible
to the parish.
As to the SIS claim for holding
Ala election in WINFIELD. when
only one day is required, every
sheriff for years has made the
claim for the Winfield box just
4 he ca ma oo for the ckbo~ h,..-r. |