Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 1889 — GAPEN ARRESTED. [ARTICLE]

GAPEN ARRESTED.

Clung: d with Embesdement freon the In. ° . Philip M. Gapen. Treasurer of the Insane Asylum Beam, was arrested at Indianapolis,* Friday morning, charging liim with embezelement. He gave bond for $5,000 with Fhuuklin Landers and John J. Cooper aa«ecurities. The money alleged to have been embezzled is the $3,000 to recover which Gapen recently brought suit against the Meridian Bank. Gapen loaned John E. Sullivan $4,700, pait of which was paid, but a check Bigned by Bullivan*ior the ballapce came back protested, and Gapen in his smt claimed the bank had converted the balance to its own use? It is re ported ion competent authority that a partial investigation of States Treasurer Lempke’s manner of loaning funds to John E. Sullivan was also made by the Grand Jnrjr, and that it will farther go into the matter at' its next sitting. Letncke loaned Sullivan money, but received it all back. : Section 5,636, of the Revised Statutes prohibits the State Treasurer from Iqeamg the State funds or receiving interest thereon. A disgruntled Georgian says that with a mustard plaster and two green flies he can reproduce the Climate of Florida.