Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1913 — C. P. WRIGHT WAS QUICKLY DISCHARGED [ARTICLE]

C. P. WRIGHT WAS QUICKLY DISCHARGED

State Made No Case Against Local Real Estate Man on Charge of Embezzlement. The trial of Charles P. Wright, charged with embezzlement, came to an abrupt close Wednesday afternoon at about 5 o’clock, when the Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Frank Davis learned that the money which the Wileys had caused to be paid over to Mr. Wright had been disbursed by him in good faith to W. H. Cohee, the fugitive Indianapolis real estate man. Mr. Wright had receipts to show that he had made authorized distribution of the moneys, paying S2OO to the Wileys, $5 to J. J. Hunt for some abstracting and had sent a draft for the balance to Cohee. The money which the Wileys would have received came from the sale of the former J. K. Davis farm in Barkley township to John Eger. The farm was never in Wiley’s name but he had a contract equity. He had authorized Mr. Eger to pay the money to Wright for Cohee, who was to. apply it to the purchase price Qf a farm in Louisiana, and the money went for that purpose. Attorneys here have expressed the opinion that not only was Mr. Wright’s exoneration complete but that Cohee himself would have had adequate defense had he been present to stand trial.