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62 MARCH 12, 1872 GRASS VALLEY UNION
changed so as to correspond with the changed entry. Mr. Rogers then went to the minute book, and
found that the amount of warrants authorized to be issued was $11,944. That made a fraudulent
issue of $10,000.
The Supervisors
were informed of Mr. Roberts’ discovery and the Board immediately ordered a thorough
investigation of the matter. Mr. Rogers, the ex-Auditor, and Mr. Plunkett, the present Auditor, were
appointed as commissioners to investigate the affairs of the Auditor’s office, and to report a the next
meeting of the Board of Supervisors. The prompt action of the Supervisors is very commendable.
As soon as the Supervisors had passed the order appointing the Commission, the affair became the
general subject of conversation. It then transpired that several persons had
Known All About It
ever since the warrants had been issued. The secret had been most faithfully kept by the several
persons out of regard and friendship to the family of the young man who is supposed to have issued
the warrants. Another part of the affair which assisted the motives of friendship to observe the
concealment was that the father of the young man had
Deposited Money
with the Bank of Nevada County to an amount sufficient to redeem the fraudulent warrants which
had been issued. If this is true the county loses nothing by the fraudulent issue, and parties who held
the warrants were fully protected. We understand that many of the fraudulent warrants have been
taken up, without charge to the county Treasury. The Commissioners will, no doubt, examine into all
such facts and officially inform the people of the county concerning such facts through the Board of
Supervisors. It has been frequently said that the
Indigent Sick Fund
is overcharged about the sum of $3,000 but nothing has been discovered to indicate a fraudulent
issue of warrants on that fund. There is no error in the books kept during Mr. Rogers’ term of office
so far as that fund is concerned. The way the error is discovered is this: Dr. Hunt holds all the
warrants drawn on the Indigent Sick Fund, and he has not the amount of warrants, by something
like $3,000, that the Auditor’s figures show to have been drawn. It is possible that the Treasury has
suffered in this Indigent Sick Fund business.
The Other Funds
are supposed to be all right so far as fraudulent warrants are concerned, yet suspicion comes over all
of them, because of what has been ascertained in the case of the Road Fund. The investigation now
going on will be, we suppose, complete and thorough as to all the transactions in the Auditor’s office,
none of the Funds being neglected.
The Auditor,
during whose term the fraudulent warrants were issued, is George K. Farquhar. We have not heard
him blamed in the matter, except that he was perhaps too reticent. His Deputy who had charge of
the Auditor’s books, and whose name we forbear to mention at the present time, is supposed to be
the one who issued the warrants. The official report we will publish when it is made. [John Abbey
was Farquhar’s deputy, and Mary Abbey was Farquhar’s sister-in-law. ]
DIED. At Grass Valley, March 11th, 1872, MICHAEL McLAUGHLIN, about 62 years of age, a
native of Ireland.
A LAW BREAKER WANTED.—William Hoar is wanted. He is the one who persuaded David
Rogers not to have an intention of working with giant powder in the Eureka mine. The persuasion
was done with the butt end of a billiard cue, Friday night last. . . . District Attorney Deal entered a
complaint against William Hoar before Justice Rolfe, of Nevada city. The Justice issued a warrant,