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WELLANDERS NOT GOOD PAY
County Town a Mecca for Dead Beats
As Much Division Court Business in Welland as in Niagara Falls and the Rest of the County
[Welland Telegraph, 3 June 1910]
The annual report of the Inspector of Division Court is just to hand; and the Telegraph is forced to conclude after reading it that Welland is the favorite roost for the man who can not pay and the dead beat who will not pay.
There are six Division Courts in the county; Welland had 588 suits. The other five put together, and this includes Niagara Falls, mark you, had only 589. The claims made in the Welland court, moreover, totalled almost as much as the total claims of the other five. There were sixty-three judgment summonses in Welland and only fifty-eight in all the others put together. Twenty-five debtors in the six courts were ordered to be committed, and fifteen of those were from Welland.
To quote the phrase of an ex-Wellander, “the bonds of pecuniary obligation lie lightly in Welland.”
The following is taken from the report:
- Welland-J.C. Nixon, bailiff; J.M. Livingstone, clerk.
- Marshville-John Haymes, bailiff; Jos. Henderson, clerk.
- Ridgeway-John R. Huffman, bailiff; Jos. Clark, clerk.
- Niagara Falls-James Jones, bailiff; J.G. Cadham, clerk.
- Thorold-R.C. Higgins, bailiff; D.J.C. Munro, clerk.
- Port Colborne-Henry Leslie, bailiff; Jas. E. Neff, clerk.
Number of suits entered
- 588
- 35
- 147
- 343
- 27
- 37
Amount of claims
- $19,302
- 1,576
- 5,606
- 12,995
- 857
- 1,140
Judgment Summonses Issued
- 63
- 6
- 16
- 31
- 3
- 2
Judgment debtors ordered to be committed
- 15
- 1
- 2
- 6
- 1
- 0
The number of debtors actually jailed, however, was only two, and both of these came from Welland.
Return of emoluments-
Clerks-
- $1294
- 89
- 295
- 873
- 66
- 76
Bailiffs-
- $701
- 125
- 347
- 653
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