Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1888 — A Rich Man’s Perfidy. [ARTICLE]

A Rich Man’s Perfidy.

Mattoon. 111.,-dispatch. In endeavoring to avoid the payment of the specical drainage tax assessed against their lands by the commissioners, one wealthy farmer and two of his poor neighbors agreed to fight the matter in the courts. For effect, the man of means agreed to pay his share of the attorney’s fees, put persuaded the two poor men to e-ter the suit in their names, the assessment against each being about :3 for the special tax. The case has just been decided in favor of the commissioners and the two poor farmers find they will have over SI,OOO costs to pay, the rich neighbor not having agreed to share anything but the attorney’s fees. The men reside in Hickory township, and while in Charleston, at court, when] the the dicision was announced, one of them, named Baker, attempted to commit suicide, but only succeeded in making a dangerous gash in his neck. ,