Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1910 — ATTY-GEN. GETS TRUSTEES’CASES [ARTICLE]

ATTY-GEN. GETS TRUSTEES’CASES

tonrnor Orders Action Brought Under Law. TRUSTEE MAY, OF CARPENTER, Among the Names Turned Over —No Report Has Ever Been Filed With the Jasper County Auditor and We Are Unable to Learn What the Charges Against May Are.

Indianapolis News: Reports prepared by the state board ot accounts relating to the records of thirty present and past township trustees, in whose official acts it was alleged misfeasance, malfeasance, or nonfeasance in office were found by field examiners, were certified to the at-torney-general to-day by Governor Marshall, with instructions that tihe attornev-gnieral bring action, as required by law, to collect under civil suits money held to be due the townships. . In one case, that M Edward Crosby, former trustee of Rushville township, Rush county, the Governor called attention to alleged grounds for action by the prosecuting attorney, and to the tact that the prosecutor is a brother-in-law of Mr. Crosby. The » attorney-general was instructed to look into the case aarefully and to take such steps as are necessary in event proper cause is found for obtaining other counsel to bring proceedings. Reports in the cases of tihe following trustees we re over to the attorney-general: Gass County —Edgar E. Phillips, Tipton township; W. J. Gibson, Jefferson township; J. M. Deniston, Adams township; M. A. Brown, Boone township; W. W. Conner, Jackson township; Charles I. Seybold, Washington township; A. B. Irwin, Adams township; O. P. Erbaugh, Tipton township; Herman E, Martin, Washington township. Benton county—‘John Glynn and Fred F. Killin, both of Boliver township. Vigo County- —F. C. Fisbeck and William A. Thornton, both of Harrison township.

Jackson County —Philip I. Fettig, Jackson township, and Jerry McOsker and Oscar Alien, both of Broivnstown township, and Henry M. Finch, Salt Creek township. Scott County—C. T. Deal, Vienna townslhip, and O. K. Williams, Jennings, township. Sullivan County—C. S. Welch, P. M, Hayworth and R. B. Douglas, all of Curry township. Jasper County—-Charles V. May, Carpenter township. Allen County—D. N. Nail, Jefferson township, and H. F. Berning, Madison township. Starke County— Leonard Renewanz, Railroad township. Madison County—Frank Hardy, Anderson townslhip. T Parke County—W. P. Brown, Raccoon township. Dearborn County—J.’W. Obertin, Lawrenceburg township. The list does not exhaust the cases in the hands of the state board of accounts, and others, will be transmitted at an early date, it is understood.

As no report of the findings of the field examiners has ever been filed witih the auditor of Jasper county we are unable to state the specific charges against Trustee May of Carpenter tp. We have never heard any rumor but what everything was all straight in his office, and news that suit is to be brought against hiffi will be a surprise to most people at least of his township.