Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1907 — EMBEZZLEMENT CASE UNIQUE. [ARTICLE]

EMBEZZLEMENT CASE UNIQUE.

Trial of Delinquent Treasurer Brings Out Plea of Bonding Concern. John P. Walker, former treasurer of Vandwburg county, who is charged with the embezzlement of $63,500 in county funds, has been plated on trial again at Rocki>ort. Tlie first trial, several months ago, resulted in a disagreement. The surety company that was on Walker’s bond has refused to make good the alleged shortage. The company says it will wait until the courts have passed on the Walker case and that if he is found not guilty It will go into the courts and set up the plea that there is no shortage in view of the fact that Walker was acquitted. In this respect the case is unique. As president of the Evansville team in the Central baseball league Walker iost money. He also was known as a “good fellow” and loaned thousands of dol'ars to .a friends, it also is alleged lie lost oiU<*iderable money in speculation.