Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1912 — ENDS BALDWIN TAX CASK. [ARTICLE]

ENDS BALDWIN TAX CASK.

Judge Til left, in Cass Court Reduces Amount to be Paid. Logan sport, Ind., November 28.Jndge Joseph N. Tillett, of Peru, in the Cass circuit court, Wednesday, ‘decided the case of William T. Wil- ! son, executor of the Daniel P. Baldwin estate, against M. M. Minniek, [treasurer of Cass county. He canceled alleged unpaid taxes in the sum of $29,741. which had been j placed on the tax duplicates by j George H. McCaslin of Indianapolis, tax ferret. He rendered a special finding of facts, and fixed for each, year the amount of property which [ Baldwin tad failed to list.

In his review of testimony and evidence the judge said that the Bald win-Dague banks at Antbia, Goodland and Fowler were never solvent. and he expressed the opinion that Judge Baldwin never intended them to be. The judge said Baldwin made a practi-* of starting private banks, letting them fail and then start others. He said he bad found many mortgages which Baldwin had never listed.