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Show GOLDFIELD SENSATION ; , BBSBSBaBBaBBSjsxaMssaaaaasst Charges Filed Against Of- flclals ; of County; Dc-nohnced:is Dc-nohnced:is False. ' ' OOIFIELDflKev March X. Im-; Im-; peaohment proceedings havev been insti-, insti-, tuted on two counts against Justice of ; the Peace William Bell. .Constable James vfRussell and District Attorney J. E. David-Cisn David-Cisn of this county on charges made by a man. now serving a term in the county jail for pasalng fraudulent checks, the -other by the foreman of the grand Jury of Esmeralda county on account of accusations accu-sations made by disreputable woman of the town. - The officers nave been cited to -eppear before the grand Jury Monday, April S. to answer to the charges filed tT2nrst Complaint Is filed by J. A. Mc ' Pbei-son. who was. tried and convicted three months ago on a charge of paaaing bad checks. Mcpherson avers the officials of the court on different occasions offered . to quash the Indictment against him for a consideration. The sums named were $500 and $260. McPheraon states that he was unable to raise this money and that rrbe was then remanded to Jail and duly tried and convicted. The more serious charge of the two Is that preferred by the foreman of the grand Jury of the county now In sexton at Hawthorne. This complaint avers vhat the .three officials have been making ar- i rests on false charges among the disrepu-, disrepu-, table characters of the town, convicting i and fining them and that the money re-cetved re-cetved haa been appropriated to the three officials. District Attorney Davidson said last night: "I brand each and every one of the Matements aa false. The man who makes the charge In the first Instance la now serving a sentence and he knows that we - have further evidence against him and on " entirely new charges. In the ease of the . women their, charges are occasioned by . the unusual vigor with which we have - lately prosecuted them for -violations of !? the county ordinances. - The complaints are not worth the. paper on which they . are written' .. The other-officials expressed surprise at , the charges and branded them aa being ' absolutely falae.:There Is a good deal of - excitement In Ooldfleid over the case. . |