Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1911 — SPINNEY CASE SETTLED; JUDGMENT FOR $4,208.31. [ARTICLE]

SPINNEY CASE SETTLED; JUDGMENT FOR $4,208.31.

Case Against Former Newton County Treasurer Settled by Defendant Acknowledging Judgment.

Former County Treasurer Chas. W. Spinney, of Newton county, a democrat, who was found short by accountants hired by the commissioners, and whose shortage was confirmed by a later examination of the books of the county by the field examiners, Tuesday agreed to acknowledge judgment in the sum of $4,208.31, being the full amount of the claim of the examiners. The judgment was entered against Spinney and his bondsmen, including a number of prominent people of Newton county. Spinney is said to intend to make the amount good himself and is expected to make a farm sale within the next thirty days and then to settle the judgment. The judgment was a compromise in a way, as the interest on the amount was' forfeited and also some claims i especting some ditch funds. No cause of the Spinney shortage is assigned. Apparently he lived higher than the salary of the office justified. He was a democrat and defeated for office a republican who had made good his shortage which occurred by the failure of the Goodland bank. Voters get a lesson occasionally.