People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1896 — Bank Director’s Trial Begun. [ARTICLE]

Bank Director’s Trial Begun.

Council Bluffs, lowa, Jan. 9.—The trial of Isaac Dickerson, director of the defunct Bank of Cass Csounty, began yesterday, was brought here on a change of venue. There are fifty-two witnesses. The bank wa.s.wrecked in 1893. J. C. Yetzer, president, was tried on a charge of fraud and acquitted, A. C. Dickerson was convicted and la in "the penitentiary. Deposits to the amount of were lost. • The assets did not reach 25 per cent. Isaac Dickerson’s defense will be that he had nothing to do with the management of the bank and was first to apply for the appointment of a receiver.