The Newtown bee., 1908-04-03

had collected taxes for 1904 on the of a certain woman and had not paid such taxes to the Town Treas urer: as q matter of fact this woman had never paid her taxes for 1904. In February, 1908, after the case against | MT Ward had been annulled in the Su- perior court, MT Ward sued her for | said taxes and they have just been eol- lected. |. was charged that Mir Ward embedded k0 cents of the cost of tax liens ,wherdas he should have paid 50 cents to the town. Since Mir Ward was collecting taxes under commis- sion instead of under q salary this 50 cents rightly belonged to him and not to the town and he was but pocketing his own money. It was charged that some tax receipts showed that MT Ward had collected more money than | te had turned into the Town Treas urer. Upon investigation it was shown that this difference between the amount collected and the amount pald the town by Mir Ward represented his
 mileage, which the law allowed him and to which he was justly entitled,
 and so on through the whole 2l counts.
 When the Superior court finally reached hearing of the State vs. Eugene Ward | in October, 1907, the states attorney for | Litchfeld County, Hon Donald T. War ner, moved the Court that the case be annulled since he had found no evil dence for conviction, which the Court accordingly did and thus ended the charge of embezzlement. The public can now judge for itself in the matter.
 The story is told of an old farmer who on one occasion rushed into the house for his gun to shoot squirrel which he said wss in a tree in the yard. Having gotten his gun he fired several times at the supposed squirrel and still the squirrel did not fall. His son who watched the proceeding could see no squirrel in the tree and so told his father. His father still insisted that there was a squirrel in the tree and pointed out what he supposed to be such. The son failing to see a squirrel where his father pointed and becoming skeptical, asked hls father to allow him to examine his eyes, thinking the squirrel was only an op- tical illusion, whereupon he found lodged in the bushy eyebrow of his father a louse which his father had mistaken for a squirrel in the tree. There are those who think that MT Wards so-called embezzlement existed only as louse in the eyebrow of the Grand Juror.
 The Grand Juror has claimed all along that his motive in prosecuting MT Ward was sense of duty as Grand Juror, against theft and embezzle- ment. This article is written in justice of Mir Ward and to exonerate him from all charges that have been made against him. The Town of Roxbury has never charged MT Ward with embezzlement. The recent Grand Juror has so charged and has brought a need less expense upon the Town in prose- cutting such> charge which proved to be all moonshine. This affair has been noised abroad far and wide and it is nothing more nor less than just that any erroneous impression which may have prevailed in regard to MT Ward be corrected. MT Ward is one of the leading citizens of Roxbury. Since he has been in Roxbury he has served on the Board of Relief, as Grand Juror, Selectman, Tax Collector and Repre- sentative. to the State Legislature. He has a host of friends and IS highly respected as whole. .-[Taxpayer.