Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1911 — DEPUTY EARLE RESPONSIBLE FOB THE SWEENEY[?]SHORTAGE. [ARTICLE]

DEPUTY EARLE RESPONSIBLE FOB THE SWEENEY[?]SHORTAGE.

Locally Well Known Deputy Fish and Game Commissioner Alleged to Have Involved Rev. Sweeney. xx-f:--—' E. E. Earle, who used to come to Rensselaer frequently In his capacity of game warden and assistant fish and game commissioner to Rev. Z. T. Sweeney, is held responsible by field examiners tor the big end of a shortage alleged to have been unearthed in Mr. Sweeney’s office. ,X. •XX Earle was a loud-mouthed fellow and loved newspaper notoriety, and whenever he came to Rensselaer he looked up the papers and told how he was after the law violators. Ha worked considerably with Christy Vick, when the latter was a deputy game warden. Earle was in Rensselaer only a little over a year ago and had Squire Irwin indorse him -at one of the Rensselaer banks so that he could get a check for SSQ cashed. The check was returned marked “no funds’’ a few days later and Squire Irwin got busy and Earle was brought to tlmp. The following account of the shortage in the office of the former fish and game commissioner was published in the Indianapolis Star; The report of the field examiners for the State Board of Accounts charging Z. T. Sweeney, former state fish and game commissioner, with a shortage and illegal expenditure of $7,252.88, was made public Tuesday. 'The responsibility for the discrepancies was placed on Mrs. E. E. Earle, formerly Miss Marguerite Meehan, license clerk for Marion county, and her husband, E. E. Earle, former chief deputy ip the office. Mr. Sweeney was held to have overpaid a clerk $343.33. The examiners found 6,196 hunting licenses unaccounted for and charged these against Mr. Sweeney at the rate of $1 each. He also was charged with $713.55, alleged to have been illegally expended by Earle while deputy. An affidavit filed by F. B. Caldwell, an Indianapolis automobile dealer, stated that Earle accumulated' a bill of $317 for automobile hire. Mr. Caldwell stated that he had offered to compromise for $250 and had accepted two checks of $125 each, both of which, were protested. The examiners also found that $897.50 is due the fish apd game commissioner’s office from various county clerks, according to their report.

Twenty-eight dollars was charged against George W. Miles, present fish and game commissioner for a payment to Earle on an alleged forged receipt.. r - s