The Tiffin tribune. [volume] (Tiffin, Ohio) 1848-1859, 1857-09-18
IRA b. DAY.
alias
TRUEmAN h. BAaBE.
cHlPrEn /.

tHhFNNN A.
Most Of our readers may not BE- aware
tha, there ie a suit now pending 10 tho
Court Of Common Pleas Of this County,
in which Messts. Loomis & Ashley. Of
the State Of New York, are plaintiffs and
Ira B. Day, aiias Trueman H Bagby, Of
ibis place, !, defendant That such is the
case, the record in The Clerks Office,
which is always open for public exami-
nation, will show. The action is for the
recovery Of money frauduleutly obtained
and appropriated by said Day (now Bag
by and The bill Of said Plaintiffs ,ogeth-
or with the depositions and other collat-
eral testimony. now on Gle in the Clerks
Office Of this County, develope the fol.
lowing circumstances The defendant
was known by the name Of Ira B. Day
and no other, during the time mentioned
lie was a tanner in Cairo, N. T., and
bought largely, from LoomiS d Ashley,
Of sheep-skins, horse-skins, calf.skins,
cow-skins, &C., 90, &c.
He took Eve hundred Buenos Ayres
hides from Loomis a Ashley to tan,
agreeing TO return them when tanned
When tanned, he took them from the vats,
shipped them and sold them without tho
knowledge or consent Of the owners,
Loomis d Ashley, and kept the funds.
He left New York in November, l845.
Loomis & Ashley and his other creditors
knew nothing Of his whereabouts and
his friends said they had not heard from
him, since he left.
Hooamoto Tifin, Whero ho has since liv.
ed, under the assumed name Of Trueman
H. Bagby, thus shedding not only his
hides, tOool aud debts. but his name also.
Ashley subsequently heard Of him aud
his assumed name and brought suit for a
long bill Of various kinds of hides and
the Buenos Ayres hides.
Bagby Of course denies all this in his
pleas; but he virtually admits R all. by
setting up the "rogue's act" of the statute
Of Limitations, He says the suit was
not begun, till it was too late--more than
six years after the hides we're sold--and
his is his defense. This plea. as every
lawyer knows, admits the facts charged,
viz: that he took the hides, sold them
and pocketed the money; but i, lodges
on the ground that the time for commence
ing action has expired If Mr.. Bagby is
innocent of these charges, why didn't he
stand up, like man, and answer to them.
and not attempt a subterfuge under the
"statute Of Limitations?"
Now we need not assert these charges
to be true, for Mr.. Bagby himself, by his
plea, has already admitted them to be
true. If any of the people Of Sen,
eca County, before whom Mr.. Bagby
stands as candidate for the Office o.
Probate Judge, has any doubts Of Their
truthfulness, we say to them, 90 AND Ex'
ANIME THE RECORD, at the Clerks OF
fee and satisfy yourselves.
We design, by this exposition, simply
to do Justice to Capt, Bagby, If he i,
guilty of the charges preferred against
him, he is not only unfit for the office, fol
which he is candidate. but for any ro.
cognition by respectable community,
The Office Of Probate Judge is perhaps
the most responsible in the gif of the
county, Il requires nc: only legal abil.
| lity aud a sound judgement, but a char
acter for integrity aud honesty. that can
stand the test of public scrutiny; and the
public has right to know the circum.
stances that 60 to make up the charactsl
Of man, seeking such position. IL,
must guard, with sorupulous care. the
interests Of all parties, the widow and the
fatherless, the living and the dead; anc
10 elect man Of doubtful character t
such position is to jeOpardiso the inter
ests Of the people of the County.