Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1919 — PROMINENT CONTRACTOR IN IT [ARTICLE]

PROMINENT CONTRACTOR IN IT

Gravel Road Contract Gets Benton County Man ' Into Trouble. ’ Fowler, Feb. 28. —In conformity with, an indictment found by the grand jury of Benton county after investigating the Fleming gravel road case. in I’ine township, Wallace Evans, twice treasurer of Benton county and a prone inent business man, has been arrested by Sheriff John Leonard for getting money from the county by fraud. The grand jury indictment is in two counts. First, it is set out that Evans, on the 28th day of Mardh, 1918, made a false claim in favor of "Evans and VanNatta,” and then “feloniously and unlawfully filed the same with t'he auditor of Benton qgunty, caused the same to be entered on the docket of the commissioners to be unlawfully and feloniously presented to the board of commissioners for allowance and payment out of said funds, he knowing that the said claims made out and filed by him were false.” The second count sets out in detail the manner in which the contract was let, the bonds sold, and the proceeds turned into the county treasury, from Which, it says, they were fraudulently taken by Mr. Evans.