Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1906 — SHORT AGEIS CURIOUS [ARTICLE]

SHORT AGEIS CURIOUS

State Official’s Accounts Square Except for One-Eighth of His Term. OLD RECORD HAS BEEN FOUND Gives the Items of the Missing sll,000 Bedford's Murder Mystery Up Again—ltems. Indianapolis, Aug. 24.—The discovery by the investigating committee of an old. musty record fn the auditor of stye’s office has revealed the exact n; ::e of the shortage of James H. IF . who was auditor of state from k » to 1887. And this discovery shows a nirious state of affairs, proving reguiir :y o faccounts for seven-eights of th ' time that Rice was in office, and sb nving irregularity for one period of six months during the four years that Rice served. Was Short SII,OOO in Bulk. Some time ago it was announced that the investigating committee, with Warren Bigler, the auditor, had found that there was a shortage of about SII,OOO in Rice’s settlements of insurance taxes with the state. This was ascertained when the amount received by Rice from the insurance companies was compared with the amount that actually found Its way into the state treasury. A comparison of these two sums showed that Rice turned over to the state about SII,OOO less than he received from the insurance companies. Book Shows the Details. This shortage, as then discovered, was a shortage in gross; in other words, it was not definite as to time or company. The book just found supplies these details, and shows that for seven six months periods Rice paid in every cent he received. He was in office from January, 1883. to December, 188 ft, and it was for the six months ended in July, 1884, that the shortage occurred. How it happened there is no solution. State’s Appeal Is Filed. The appeal of the state In the French Lick and West Baden gambling cases has been filed in the supreme court by Attorney General Miller. ’ The appeal Is from the ruling of Judge Thomas Buskirk, of the Orange county circuit court, that the facts stated In the quo warranto proceedings were not sufficient to warrant the spiiolntment of temporary receivers for the hotel companies and an injunction against gambling and also from his decision that the state had not proceeded in compliance with special acts to which he ruled, procedure was limited. KUNAWAY GIRL, IS FOUND She and the Man Who Ran Away with Her Arrested—Sarah Schaffer Case Again. Evansville, Ind., Aug. 24.—Nellie Rainey, 17 years old, of Bedford, Ind., whose alleged kidnaping last November has killed her mother and caused her father to spend a fortune uj>on her, was arrested here after Ernest Tanksley, a stonecutter, charged with the crime, had been taken on advice from the prosecuting attornw of Bedford. The presence of the pair here was made known by detectives searching for the infssiug girl. Tanksley admits his identity. Information from Bedford Is to the effect that he is also wanted on a charge of complicity In the murder of Sarah Schafer at Bedford more than a year ago, the solving of which has battled the Bedford police and detectives of other places. Mias Rainey is but a school girl. She is now in a pitiable condition. It is believed that she will tell the full story. Railway Agent la Missing. Fowlerton, Ind., Aug. 24. C. C. Conode, agent for, the 0., I. and E.

railway, at this place, Is unaccountably missing. He went to Matthews Monday last, returning at night, but failing to open the office on the following day. Wesley Baker, of Swayzee, former agent, came here to investigate company affairs, but he was unable to open the safe, as the combination had been changed. He May Get Oat in Two Years. Windfall, Ind., Aug. 24. George Zumbrum, the militiaman who pleaded guilty to the charge of throwing acid Jn the face of his former wife, Mrs. Ira Vandevener, seven miles west of this city, has been taken to the penitentiary at Michigan City to serve the sentence of from two to fourteen years imposed by the court. Colonel Robertson Is 111. Fort Wayne, Ind., Aug. 24.—Colonel Robert S. Robertson, ex-lieutenant governor and now Republican cahdidate for circuit judge in Allen county, is critically ill at his home here with cirrhosis of the liver. He received a call from Vice President Fairbanks, and brightened up some, but he had a bad night. Revival at a Funeral. Evansville, Ind., Aug. 24. There was an affecting scene connected with the burial of the 10-year-old daughter of Captain Stanyon, of the Salvation Army. Burial services were turned into a revival meeting, two men coming forward and bowing over the little coffin, confessing their sins and professing conversion.