Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1905 — Thinks Obenchain is Dead [ARTICLE]

Thinks Obenchain is Dead

The bond*men of K. F. ObenohaiD, defaulting treasurer of Gaea County, meet Monday to fix an assessment among (themselves in order to make a partial payment plan has been adopted because it was recognized that to exact settlement in full at this time would bankrupt many of the men who went on Obenohain’s bond. “Frank Obenobain is dead,” said Frank Polk, one of his deputies. at present a tax ferret employed by Gass county. “Otherwise we would have had some trace of him by this time. Bis disposition ocupled with his love for his family, would have led him to suicide* Realizing that he had disgraced his friends and ruined his own life, it would have been the natural thing for him to have killed himself,