Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 July 1908 — ENSLEY NOW INDICTED [ARTICLE]

ENSLEY NOW INDICTED

Notwithstanding He Had Made Good His Alleged Shortage to the County. GRAND JURY IS INEXORABLE Latest Development in the Uplift at the State Capital—Those “Near* Beer*' Drinks. Indianapolis, July 2. —Of the fourteen Indictments returned by the Marlon county grand jury Tuesday It has developed that three of them are against Oliver P. Ensley, county treasurer, who gave bond for SB,OOO. Other persons Indicted were Henry W. Marshall, president of the Western Construction company; Cyrus J. Clark, ex-county auditor, and William S. Fish, president of the Sentinel Printing company. It Is believed there is only one other person Indicted who lias not given bond. Indicted Though He Made Good. The three indictments against Ensley all charge him w’ith the embezzlement of public funds. These charges grew out of the discovery by the expert accountants that Ensley had retained fees on taxes to which he was not entitled. Through his attorneys, Smith, Duncan, Hornbrook & Smith, Ensley made’ a return of $22,473.22 to the county last Saturday morning, after a formal demand had been made on him to do so. Indictment Against Marshall. Marshall was one time speaker of the state house of representatives. The Indictment against him charges him with making out and presenting to the city a false and fradulent claim for an allowance, and is in six counts. The indictment is based on the April claim presented to the board of public works May 10, for $11,016.05, in payment for 16,691.90 square yards of asphalt street patching. The indictment alleges that the actual number of square yards of patching was only 14,253.00, and that the city was indebted to the company for only $9,407.57, and no more. Those "Near-Beer" Drinks. Indianapolis, July 2.—The attorney general has been asked to assist in a case which has been brought in the circuit court at Frankfort to test the legality of the sale, under certain conditions, of the so-called “temperance beverages” to which the brewing companies are now devoting a great deal of their attention. The liquor which was sold at Frankfort is known as “Tonica,” made by tile Indianapolis Brewing company. The attorney genera] Investigated some and sent his views In « letter.

ONCE SLEPT THIRTEEN DAYS Expected the Cause of His Sleep to Prove Fatal and It Has Done So. Muncie, Ind.. July 2.—Friends here have received a letter telling of the death In Spokane, Wash., last week, of Dr. W, A. Egbert, formerly a practicing physician in Muncie and Indianapolis. Death occurred in the DeaconneSs hospital in Spokane and was due to heart trouble. Dr. Egbert's death recalls his thirteen days’ sleep in St. Luke’s hospital at Spokane several weeks ago. He went to sleep In his office and did not awaken for thirteen days. Then he awoke in the hospital as If from natural slumber ami was surprised to find himself regarded as ill. His condition was entirely normal During his long sleep Dr. Egbert was visited by prominent physicians of the coast. He diagnosed his trouble as one of the heart and said he feared it would eventually prove fatal, which prediction came true much sooner than he anticipated After his long sleep he resumed the practice of medicine.

Neighbors Missed Their Corn. Danville. Ind.. July 2.—John Austin, negro, south of town, has been coin mltted to jail on the charge of larceny. Neighbors hiid been missing corn from their cribs and Harvey Caln aud Elmer Chamness detected Austin In the act of carrying corn from Cain's crib and commanded him to halt Austin failed to heed the order and Caln filled his legs with shot. Finds Thirty Pounds of Honey. Sullivan; Ind., July 2.—The first “bee tree’s fouud In this part of the state for many years was discovered near Merom by James Edmondson, a Terre Haute man, who with a fishing outfit is floating down the Wabash river. After cutting down the tree and smoking the bees out Edmondson got thirty pounds of fine wild honey. , He Brooded end Tried to Die. Anderson, Ind., July 2.—Despondent because he could not find employment, and brooding over the suicide of Daniel H. Jones, a neighbor. Lee Skinner, eighteen years old, attempted suicide by taking morphine while at the home of his mother. It is thought be will recover.