Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1900 — Still Bro. Marshall Escapes. [ARTICLE]

Still Bro. Marshall Escapes.

Carroll County Citizen: Deputy Prosecutor John. L. Hanna yesterday filed a complaint against the Jacob Knettle estate, claiming a total penalty of $30,000, alleging that Jacob Knettle, deceased, each year since 1894 made out a false and fraudulent schedule of his property to the assessor. The law under which this suit is brought provides for a ’penalty of from SSO to $5,000 for failure to give a true and correct list of personal property, and such action survives ns against tho personal representatives of such person. An investigation is said to show that in 1889 he gave in fortaxation SIO,OOO worth of personal property and each year thereafter, with the exception of a year or two, increased the amount and in 1899 he gave in for taxation something near $47,000, while an inventory of his personal estate shows $161,000 or over.