Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1895 — TAYLOR'S BONDSMEN. [ARTICLE]

TAYLOR'S BONDSMEN.

The bondsmen of W. W. Taylor, the defaulting Treasurer of South Dakota, held a conference at Chicago, Jan. 15. and de* elded that they would turn over all tbeis property, to bo applied on the shortage, the only condition attached being that the bondsmen be dismissed from all other Ha* bllity on account of the bond. At present the men who signed Taylor's bond art each liable individually, for the whole amount of the shortage. All their property may be attached, and then, If the shortage is not made good, a Judgment will bang over them for years, and any property they may hereafter obtain wifl be subject to the demand of the State. The condition attached by the bondsmen to the present proposition is that the property they at this time turn over to State release them finally. If thlsproposltion is not accepted the bondsmei»<Hfr they will fight the collection o//any moneys on account of their bonds on th« ground that the State did not WWi diligence to protect itaelf, j gaiiaffl