People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1895 — INDIANA SHERIFFS ACCUSED. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA SHERIFFS ACCUSED.

Systematic Robbery of the State Charged Against Them. Indianapolis, Ind., Nov. 7. —State Auditor Daily has been making an investigation of the accounts of county sheriffs and the statement is made that a number of these officials have been systematically robbing the state. Under the law the sheriffs submit expense accounts for transferring convicts to the state prisons and it is in their statements for this service that the frauds are perpetrated. It seems that the sheriffs have been in the habit of charging for guards, hack hire and hotel bills where no such expense has been incurred, and in some cases false receipts have been secured and given by them as vouchers when receiving their pay from the state. In two cases the fraud was directly charged upon the officers and they turned the excess into the state treasury to escape prosecution.