Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1902 — R. N. RAMSAY’S ESTATE MUST PAY STATE BOND [ARTICLE]

R. N. RAMSAY’S ESTATE MUST PAY STATE BOND

Shortage of the Late James D. Baker, Former Warden at Chester, Must Be Made Good. Carlyle, 111., dispatch: The supreme court of Illinois has decided that the state of Illinois is entitled to $17,539 from the estate of the late Rufus N. Ramsay, formerly state treasurer. During the administration of John P. Altgeld the office of warden of the penitentiary at Chester was held by James D. Baker, now dead. When he retired he was discovered to be short as warden and treasurer of the hospital for the criminal insane at Chester the above amount. Ramsay was one of his bondsmen with Henry Setter of Lebanon. A claim for the shortage was filed against the estate of Ramsay and allowed. The claim was contested by the administrators. The circuit, appellate and supreme, courts in turn affirmed the lower tribunal.