Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1912 — DID BUSINESS ON HIS NAME [ARTICLE]

DID BUSINESS ON HIS NAME

Witness Testifies Dead Banker Had Little Money at Any Time. Logansport, Ind., July 12. —Daniel P. Baldwin, a former judge, ‘‘robbed Peter to pay Paul,” according to Lawrence Wiles of Indianapolis. formerly cashier of the Bald-win-Dague Bank at Goodland, when or. the witness stand yesterday in the Baldwin tax case, which is being heard in the Cass circuit court before Judge Til let of Peru. Wiles said that Baldwin would give his unsecured note and draw on one bank to cover a deficiency in another of the defunct banks. Wiles testified that Baldwin had little cash on deposit in any of his banks and that he did business more on his name than on his money. The' executor of the estate is trying by this action to remove $30,000 in alleged unpaid taxes placed on the tax duplicate by the county assessor. The executor asserts that Baldwin was a poor man instead of wealthy as generally believed. It is expected that it will take about two or three weeks to try the case.