Mr…
source date: 1890
availability: public-domain

upon the orders made by the board. He claimed entire ignorance of the ir- regularities herein reported before they were brought to his notice before the grand jury (as did also Mr. Carpenter) ; Mr. Bragaw also had the most implicit confidence in the integrity of the clerk. Mr. Thomas W. Cobb, who was chairman of the board during a part of the transactions reported, and a member thereafter until March, 1890, is now a non-resident, and did not appear before the grand jury. Mr. Jo E. Sheridan has been a member of the board of county commissioners since March, 1890, but we have not discovered any irregulari- ties occurring since he has been a member as occurred before. Yet he might, as such com- missioner, by examination, have discovered what investigation by the grand jury has dis- covered. The legal advisor of the board of commis- sioners, Hon. J. A. Ancheta, district attorney, must have been lax in the performance of his duties, else he would have discovered the ap- palling condition into which the county finances were being plunged. The most profligate extravagance charac- terizes the purchases made by the agents of the county in the past two years, and bills for supplies at prices far in excess of those charged to individuals have been allowed and paid.