Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1890 — A CORRUPT OFFICE. [ARTICLE]

A CORRUPT OFFICE.

A grand jury has been investigating the New York Sheriff’s office, and in its reports says it was unable to find a single instance of anything being dene properly. The jury reports several cases where fees were unjustly exacted, and says: For over twenty years the affaire of the sheriff’s office have been administered with entire disregard of the obligations imposed by law on the sheriff. Of its'general manage ment there is nothing to commend and much to denounce. Under the system in vogue the deputy sheriff, to realize substantial pecuniary advantage from his official position, is almost compelled to commit criminal acts—certainly to lay aside all idea of honesty and integrity. The sheriff’s office is now and has for a long time back been tainted End corrupt. For twenty years past there has been an utter subversion of the public interest to personal gain, and the employment of men of ignorance and cupidity^”