Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-01-14
WORKHOUSE BOARD
CONSIDER REPORT
THIS AFTERNOON
Grand Jury's Recommendations
Will be Given Special
Attention.
GUARDS TO GET MORE PAY

! The Board of Trustees of the New Castle
! County Work house will hold an adjourned
meeting this afternoon. at which time II Is
/ expected they will consider the matters
mentioned III The report Of the grand Jury.
The regular monthly meeting of the
trustees took up practically all oil yester-
/ day. both morning and afternoon sessions
being held. The time of the members Of
the Board Yesterday was given to the
/, consideration and transaction of the roiI-
tine business coming before the regular
monthly meetings.
The report of the Grand jury. based on
| an investigation made few DAYS ago.
and incident to the escape OF the con-
dcmned murderer lem Price, was not
taken up by the Board Yesterday Some
OF the members considered that the report
Of the grand jury. which went exhaustivciv
into conditions st the institution, and
made various recommendations and some
criticisms, was not officially before the
board, az no copy had hrcn furnished them,
| and all they knew Of the report was what
they had seen in the newspapers Other
members, however. were OF the opinion
that 10 hold that the report was not before
them would he more qulbblIng
OF course ID IL understood bv all that the
! court, and the court Is vet to take action
on The report The natural course IN the
matter would BE- for the clerk 0f the peace
to furnish the trustees with q certified
copy Of the report but this bad not been
done IN tmc for Yesterday S meeting. M
far aS could be- learned
rHrsrFFs VIII Act.
Ii was said nv tho members 1T the
~. IT, q
he made to comply with the rrconmcn-
daticns IL the grand jury in its reports.
and II was pointed out that at the DC
cembcr meeting, preceding the escape of
Price, some action was taken III regard
to some of tho matters dwclt on IN the
report
Al the December meeting, tho minutes
showed, the board had appointed conn
mittcc to consider and report on increases
IN the pay ot guards, "a take effect on
December I and report At tho January
meeting The report If this committee
was considered yesterday. and the Board
decided To make increases IN the guards
pay, depending in amount on tho length
OF service
81 yesterdays meeting, the Board APP
pointed Leonard Crawford superintendent
Of inspection and confidential advisor 10
Inc p03Ffl OF lFtlStf'pS. MS Is q new posi-
ton Mr. Crawford Is At present acting
rs warden. pending action in the matter
Of Warden Cross. who was suspended
pending tho investigation Of the grand
jury
Captain Cross was there Yesterday.
but when asked il he was gong to resign,
said Il have no statement Ia make at
present
1t is expected that the meeting this
afternoon slil take up All matters MENTION
ed IN the report. except that with reference
% J Frank Ball, whom the report criticis-
cd Judge Ball said he had no statement
10 make at present. The trustees hold Of
course, that this matter is one affecting
Judge Ball and the court
At the meeting yesterday the subject Of
improving the lighting facilities at the
workhousc vas discussed. II was brought
out that bids had been received from three
concerns To do the work Action on this
matter will be taken after further investI-
cation.