Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1905 — WORKMAN MUST DISGORGE. [ARTICLE]

WORKMAN MUST DISGORGE.

We notice that. J. B. Workman, who “investigated” the taxpayers of Jasper county a few years a go at so much per, has lost out in his appeal to the supreme court in his case against the board of commissioners of Owen county. Before starting into the tax-ferret business, Joe served a couple of terms as auditor of Owen county. Later, an expert examination of the county records disclosed some discrepancies in his accounts, amounting to several hundred dollars. The commissioners sued to recover the same and secured a judgment for about SBOO, we believe. Joe appealed to the supreme court, which has just affirmed the decision of the lower court, so that some of the money that his “system” has taken out of the pockets of people of this and other counties, who paid rather than stand a law-suit, will probably have to go to settle for his own lapse of memory in dear old Owen.