Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1910 — THE WAY IT WAS DONE [ARTICLE]

THE WAY IT WAS DONE

In Keener Township, According to State Examiners. According to the report of the field examiners who have been investigating the township trustees accounts, ex-trustee b. L. Luce of Keener owes his township $775.31 on account of funds lost in the McCoy bank. The examiners’ report says, according to an Indianapolis paper: “In the cause of Samuel L. Luce, trustee of Keener township, Jasper county, from 1901 to 1904, it was found that he took credit for $1,642.96 said by him to have been lost in the McCov bank crash at Rensselaer, but the township claim, when paid ip full by the bank, showed the corporation to have received only $887.65. The balance of $775.31 is charged to Luce, but the examiners report that the former trustee has moved from the state, and that he has no visible assets on which the state could levy in the event of judgment again him for the amount.” _ Practically alj the present trustees of Jasper county have been given “clean bills,” at least ail that have been reported on, except Mr. Karch of Walker, which includes at least nine of the thirteen, as published in the Indianapolis papers.