Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1906 — EX-AUDITOR IS SUED [ARTICLE]

EX-AUDITOR IS SUED

State Demands $30,000 from Daily as Money He Has Unlawfully Retained. PAROLE WANTED FOR SHERRICK Friends Do Not Like to See Him Go to Prison Pending His Appeal —State News Items. Indlanapoljs, March 30. Attorney General Miller, acting on behalf of Governor Hanly and Auditor General Bigler, has filed suit in the Boone county circuit court against A. C. Daily, ex-auditor of state, for $30,000, which Governor Hanly’s experts say Daily illegally withheld from the insurance taxes. This includes 6 per cent, interest on deferred payment and 10 per cent, penalty for failure to settle according to law. Sherrick's Bill of Exceptions. No time will be lost by the attorneys representing David E. Sherrick, exauditor of state, convicted in the criminal court for the embezzlement of state funds, in appealing to the supreme court for a reversal of the verdict. Special Judge McCullough has granted sixty days in which a bill of exceptions, on which the appeal will be based, may be filed with the clerk of the criminal court, but it is thought all of this time will not be needed. Appeal To Be Made at Once. W. N. Harding, who was engaged with A. C. Harris and Daniel Simms, of Lafayette, in the defense of the exauditor, says the appeal to the supreme court will be made Immediately, and that an effort will be made to have the court pass on the appeal at the earliest possible moment, in order that Shermay be released from prison as soon as possible, in case the finding of the higheA court is favorable to him. Parole Asked for Sherrick. Governor Hanly has received the following telegram from Hartford City: “Several hundred of your friends here ask for the parole of David E. Sherrick until the supreme court has time to pass on the case.” The telegram was signed by Postmaster Henry Geisler, W. P. Modlen, Republican nominee for joint representative from Blackford and Grant counties; A. G. Lupton, Republican nominee for joint senator from Grant, Blackford and Wells counties, and about 100 other representative business men. The governor would not discuss the matter. WAS A HEARTY OLD BEAST;

Steer That Was Possessed |of Two of Those Organs. One on Each Side. Lafayette, Ind., March 30.—A steer with two hearts has been killed at a local packing plant, and both organs were found to be In perfect condition and normal in every respect, save the peculiar duplication. The steer was one received in a shipment from Chicago, and appeared to be healthy and strong. The butchers led the animal to tho block and as it passed before them they noticed an unusual heaving of the breast Curious to ascertain the cause of the peculiar action, they felt the steer’s body and found a throbbing on each side. The animal was butchered and the workmen were astonished to see two distinct hearts, one on each side of the steer’s body. Badly Hurt While Hunting. Mount Vernon, Ind., March 30. Lee Sellers, a well-known resident of Point township, was seriously injured while shooting ducks in the Ohio bottoms. His gun was overcharged with smokeless powder and the barrel exploded, tearing away a portion of his right and left arms. Sellers was brought to this city and given medical attention by Dr. Doerr, who says the injuries are very serious, but will not prove fatal. J Wanted Pay for Time Ixwt. Vincennes, Ind., March 30.—John B. Clarke sued Mrs. Mary Bouvey to collect farm boys’ wages amounting to S2OO. At the trial the plaintiff was the cause of much suppressed laughter as It developed that he brought suit merely to collect pay for work which he had done without naming any price, when he kept company with Mrs. Bouvey’s daughter for four years. She finally jilting him. Landis Nominated; Fairbanks Boomed Wabash, Ind., March 30. Fred Landis was renominated by acclamation in the Republican convention by the Eleveth district Among the neeolutious adopted was one indorsing Vice President Fairbanks as the Republican nominee for president In 1908. The resolution was received with hearty applause. BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS. March 22, to Mr. and Mrs. John Wells of Parr, a son.