Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1863-02-26
EXcitcincntinS summit County,
Fhc County Treasury settles
uphis Affairs and Disappears
Another Mans Wife also Dis

appears.
On Friday last S. S. Wilson, Treas
urer of Summit County, handed the keys
to Auditor Grouse, together with a paper
addressed to the Commissioners of the
county, rendering his resignation, aud
then, instead Of going to his home III
Northampton, took the cars for Hudson,
and from thence left for parts unknown.
There are wany rumors IN connection
with the sudden departure of Mr.. Wilson,
mostly of a scnndalous nature. the gener-
al purport OF which is, that the cause OF
his thus abandoning his family, and the
honorable, social and official position
which he held, was too close intimacy
with the wife of one of his neigh
bors by whom it is said, he is to be ac,
ompanicd on his .jorneyings, she having
left her home on the same day, ostensibly
for the purpose of visiting her friends in
the State of Michigan. OF the truth of
these rumors we have no means OF know
ing, and would caution the public against
: giving any too great credencc or currency
to them, lest innocent parties should sui
fer thereby.
AS the news of his resignation spread
throughout the community, taken in con
ncction with the singula,ity Of his move
m ents, general fear became prevalent
that the funds OF the county might not be
found to be all right, and especially did
this feeling obtain among those gentle
men who were upon his official bond. Tie
Commissioners. however on being mott
fled Of the vacancy, and the circumstances
attending it, held special session on
Monday and Tuesday, and, upon consul.
tation, they appointed Auditor Grouse to
serve as Treasurer tor the balance OF the
term, he at once resigning his post as
/ Auditor, Mr.. $. NJ. Burnham, the Audit
or coct, being appointed to fill that va
cancy until the commencement OF his reg
ular term, an the first Monday OF March
After his induction into his new position,
| Mr.. Grouse and the Commissioner aided
| by Auditor Burnham (who had acted as
clerk and book keeper for Wilson, made
an examination into the affairs o! the
Treasury, carefully counting the funds and
comparing them with both tho Ircasur-
er's and Auditor s books, which resulted
d lll Ill'llllH NHt lli'lN an NlIN hi'' '' y WV
order The funds due the State had been
duly paid into the State Treasury by Mr..
/ Wilson, on the Tuesday previous to his
resignation, while every dollar of the
/ County, School and Township money
was found on hand and is now ready to
be paid out to the various persons author
/ lied to receive it.
1t is said that Mr.. Wilson borrowed
$4,000 giving mortgage on his farm
/ which is ample security u short time
before he left, and tina: he had also dispos
ed of the greater portion OF his farm stock
and personal property, leaving his faml-
ly without much ready means, but IN pos
session of the farm, in which, as mat
ter of course, they will retain homestead.
lie also. as we learn, left some minor
matters in the hands of an attorney for
collection and disbursement.
Taken all in all, this is one of the most
singular and unaccoun,able lecircumstances
that has ever transpned in Summit Coun.
ty. Quite unaSSuming i'll his man
ners, and apparently ever attentive to hi
official and private business Mr.. Wilson
would have been almost the last person tC
whom the community at large would have
looked for complications of any kind what
ever calculated to bring disgrace upon
himself and family and in common with
many others, it is still our hope that there
| is some terrible mistake about the matter
l-~"ws te"Porsry PeNo'Sys" "i "@daess
that many soon be followed by return to
reason and the home and ncighborhood
that, but for this unfortunate occur, nee
aud tho cause leading to it, might lone
havo been rendered happy and blessed
with his presence, Akron beacon.