Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1905 — CONZMAN IS ON BAIL [ARTICLE]

CONZMAN IS ON BAIL

.Reputed . Wrecker of a«6ank at Terre Haute Has to Put Up $15,000. CIVIL SERVICE CASE IS CALLEE . 1 \ Defense Presents Demurrers—lmpulsive Man Has to Pay for H is Impulse—ltems. Indianapolis. Dec. 14. Gustave A Conzmau, ex-cashier of the Vigo County National bank, was arraigned before Judge Anderson, of the federal court, indicted by the federal grand Jury on fifteen counts. Five of the counts charge him with wrongly appropriating to his own use money to the amount of $78,472. The other ten counts charge him with making false entries on the bank’s books. One false entry, as charged in the indictment, was a deposit of $17,415.01 credited to William Clark, treasurer of Vigo county ,y and another of $4,500 to the same man. These funds, it is charged 1 ! were never deposited. Bond Is Fitted at $15,000. Cbiizinah pleaded not guilty, and his hearing was set for Jan. 29. Conzman said his brother-in-law. William Helsenberger. would go on his l»ond in any amount required. Bond was fixed at $15,000. and Judge Anderson said two names must be signed to it I f was said this could be arranged, but at this writing Conzman is still in the hands of the marshal. Mrs. Conzman sat with her husband in the court room. Conzman was arrested by United States Marshal Petit, at the camp of the Riverside Park club, on the Wabash river, tive miles east of Terre Haute. Gets Four on His Bond. Later four signatures were affixed to his bond and Conzman was released after .Tan. 29 had been fixed as the date for his trial. Civil Service Law Case. W. H. Huffman, of Anderson, charged with violating the civil service law by soliciting campaign assessments of the employes of the postofflce at Goshen, appeared before Judge Anderson, of the United States court, and his case was set for hearing Jan. 30. Ready Demurrer Is at Work. Huffman’s attorney promptly filed a separate demurrer to each of the three counts on which Huffman was indicted. Jan. 3 was the time set for the hearing on the demurrer. Huffman furnished bond for his appearance. When his case was first called he was not in court and for a time action was postponed because, as explained. the train on which he was coming to the city was late. IMPULSE COSTS $lO AND COSTS University Professor Mulcted tor “Sending Offensive and Scurrilous Matter” by MaiL Indianapolis, Dec. 14.—For sending a .postal card addressed to “H. H. Peck, official man-butcher, Windsor, Vt.,” through the mails, Robert L. Green, professor of chemistry at Notre Dame university, was fined $lO and costs upon a plea of guilty in the United States district court. The card was sent to H. H. Peck, sheriff at Windsor, in connection with the case of Mrs. Mary Rogers, who was executed lust Friday for the murder of her husband. The charge contained In the indictment, found against Green by the last federal grand Jury, was sending offensive and scurrilous matter through the mnlls. In extenuation of hlB offense Green said that the card was written and sent upon Impulse after reading of the case without being fully acquainted with Its details. Says the President Is Right. Seymour, Ind., Dec. 14.—The Indiana state grange is in session here. Master Aaron Jones, in his annual address, said that on the question of railroad rate and trust legislation “The president is right—corporations must be controlled. Unreasonable rates and rebates must be stopped. Trust methods must also be stopped if the farmers and the common people are to profit in great crops.” Accused of Perjury Now. . Petersburg. Ind., Dec. 14.—Alonzo Smith, formerly of Oatsville, this conn-

ty, but now of Princeton, has been arrested on a bench warrant, it being alleged that he committed perjury in the Pike circuit court in filing an affidavit for a continuance in a case where In he was accused of violating the liquor law. * Snloonist with a Record. Auburn. Ind., Dec. 14. Edward Eldridge has retired 'from the saloon business in this city after a continuous service of forty years in the same location. Eldridge conformed Strictly to the law governing the traffic, and during his business career, he was never prosecuted for violating the law. Weather Out of Mole Holes. Clay City. Ind., Dec. 14. A local weather prophet forecasts a protracted and severely cold winter for the reason, as he puts it, that the moles have provided an additional and lower subterranean chamber than usual for their winter quarters. t Two Miners Get Death Wounds. Clinton, Ind., Dec. 10.—Frank Goodrich was killed and James Litwich was fatally injured by being struck by a work train. The men were miners and were walking on the track. Wbat Might Have Been Expected. Clayton, Ind.. Dec. 15. —Mrs. Louis Greeson, 18 years old, of this place, was fatally burned by an explosion of coal oil. She attempted to quicken a fire in the kitchen stove with oil poured from a two-gallon can.