Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 9, Number 47, DeMotte, Jasper County, 12 October 1939 — HART RELEASED ON $23,000 BOND [ARTICLE]

HART RELEASED ON $23,000 BOND

F. M. Hart, Jr., ex-county auditor, was released from the Jasper county jail last Thursday night ab< u‘ 10 I'. M.. when his bond of $23,000 wa approved by Sheriff Herman Arne There were nineteen s:> m-rs on hi bond, as follow-: Bertha Pettet. Ward Yeagley, Clyde Yeagh y, W. W Stroup, C. F. Gilmore, Alfred Dug gleby, Samuel Karnowsky. Leonard Harmon, Fiery Fehlman. C. G. 1! r keen, I. W. Wells, Amos MclJar el Thomas Swart, Effie Spencer, T .1. Spencer, Frank Hart, Jr. (principal), Hattie C. Hart. C. P. Curtip, Merl Curtin. Auditor Hart resigned his pos tion on July 12th, 1939, following di - closures of a shortage of approximately $6,000 in his accounts. The shortages were contained in two re ports by the date board of account ■. the first of which, approximately $3,400, was paid back by Mr. Hart. The second shortage of about S2IOO has not been restored. Shortly after Mr. Hart’s resignation, the Jasper county grand jury returned seven indictments, charging him with embezzlement and forgery He surrendered to Sheriff A mevoluntarily, and at his preliminary hearing Mr. Hart, through his attorney,. William Reed, pleaded not guilty to the charges and took a change of venue from Judge Moses Leopold. Judge George Sammons of Newton county has been selected to hear the case.