Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1917 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts of the Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL I Happenings In the Nearby Cities > and Towns—Matters of Minor i Mention From Many Places. :< tEEKS JUDGMENT FOR $6,000

brmer Starke County Auditor and ; Bondemen Defendants in Suit. . A suit filed in the federal district turt Monday against Lee W. Ransi'ttom, auditor of Starke county Am 1909 to 1916, and his boudsrui, asks judgment for $6,000 in j'or of the Dime Savings Bank inpany of Toledo, Ohio. The suit - filed in the names of the state on - • relation of the Toledo bank. 3 lansbottom is accuse 1 of a breach bis bond by failing to surrender . his successor an issue of highs • improvement bonds, which, the' i says, was canceled for want of

1 » - fter leaving the office In 1916, Is charged, Ransbottom took 26 worth of the bonds to the 'do bank, from which he obtd a loan, and afterward sold lof them to the bank. Later, ading to the suit, it was found tthe bonds were not legal, and tlank lost $5.289.37. according t< suit. > other defendants are John L. Maan, Herbert R. Koffel, John Marner, Henry C. Rogers, Abel ROscar B. Smith, Lee Wolf, na as bondsmen, and Laura, Sa and Craig Jones, named as heof John C. Jones, another botan.