Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1900 — Shelby County’s Boodlers. [ARTICLE]

Shelby County’s Boodlers.

Another conviction was secured in the Shelby county boodle cases Thursday. The boodler was a prominent democrat and the jury was composed of two-thirds democrats, but this fact didn’t save him. It is the general belief, says a dispatch from Shelbyville, that J. Marsh Wilson, the ex-treasurer under conviction, will make a confession of the entire plot to rob the county and expose all who took part in the looting of the treasury. A petition is being circulated by his attorneys for the purpose of keeping him from making such an exposure, as it wbuld seriously damage their evidence in the cases which are to follow. The Grand Jury-met again Thursday and it is believed that it will continue its investigation of county affairs. The two experts—Samuel Wallace and John Boltz—now at work on the books of the auditor’s office have already found many things which CUn be used later to convict the “boodiers” who have been unlawfully drawing money from the treasury. The work of experts is such that they cannot give out any information as to their research until they are ready to report in full. It is esti muted that already the investigation of the county affairs have, cost the county about $5,000, yet the heaviest taxpayers of the county are saying that they would be willing to spend as much more to find just what became of the $245,000 spent by the board of Commissioners in 1899. There seems to be no politics in the question whatever; indeed, the democrats are more anxious, if anything, to convict the democratic officials who are accused of looting the county. Our machine-made fruit jars are 20 per cent, better than the oldfashioned hand-made jars. Chicago Bargain Store.