Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 1901 — Iowa Banker to Go to Jall. [ARTICLE]

Iowa Banker to Go to Jall.

President James H. Easton of the First National bank of Decorah, la., is doomed to the state penitentiary by decision of the lowa Supreme court unless saved by pardon or appeal. Easton was convicted under the state laws for receiving a deposit in August 1864, when his bank was insolvent His attorneys maintained the state law making it a felony for a bank to receive deposits when insolvent did not epply to national banka. The Supreme court held it did.