Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1901 — SEQUESTERED TAXES. [ARTICLE]

SEQUESTERED TAXES.

Fine of One Thousand Dollars Has Been Imposed. Lust week at Crawfordsville in the Montgomery circuit court Judge West imposed a fine of SI,OOO upon Will am Cox, charged with having sequestered $50,000 worth of taxable property for seventeen years. By the ruling of the court the property in question was placed upon the tax duplicate, and taxes will be collected upon it for the full seventeen years. There were seventeen counts against Mr. Cox, but they were all bunched and the fine was imposed as a whole. Mr.Oox is one of the highly respected citizens of the county, and is worth about $200,000 in choice farm lands. The suits were filed over a year ago, and, under the law, the county prosecutor, William M. Reeves, will receive 10 percent, of all the taxes collected.