Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 139, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1910 — Verdict Given Against Former Newton County Trustee. [ARTICLE]

Verdict Given Against Former Newton County Trustee.

Kentland Enterprise. In the suit of the advisory board of Lincoln township against D. K. Frye former trustee, the jury brought in e verdict ten minutes before adjournment of court Saturday evening giving judgment against Mr. Frye for $559.86. It seems that Mr. Frye is the victim, oi violator, of the Chinese puzzle, known as the township trustee law. It was not charged that Mr. Frye profited by his irregular transactions, but that he spent the money of the township without authority of the advisory board and without due appropriation and public notice. Township trustees, of course, should be made to obey the law in the transaction of public business, but it would not be amiss for our law makers to provide a statute for the trustee’s guidance that could be interpreted by one lawyer out of fifty. During his term as trustee, Mr. Frye expended some $250 for new bridges over and above the appropriation, and overdrew the special school fund some S3OO, and it is for these amounts the Jury holds him accountable.