Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1872-09-26
Mr.. SOhn and the Treasury De-
faIcatiOn.

ment found against him for 'embez-
zling the county money" says:
ssMr. Sohn is a stockbolder and a
director in one of the national banks
of the city of Hamilton. Mr.. Lindley,
the defaulting treasurer of that county,
deposited in the bank with which
Mr. Sohn was connected, certain pub
lie funds in his possession. Mr. Sohn
sCGs for some time totally ignorant Of
the fact that Mr.. Lindley had eUer
made such disposition Of public
moneys, and upon discovering 1t, he
declared that the deposits, though
made IN UioEatiOa Of q dead letter lar,
must be Immediately aCtthdraacn, and
it aOas done. This is the long and
short of his connection with Mr.. Lind
ley's banking transactions"
Let US look into this matter.
Mr.. -Sohn was elected a director of
the First National Bank in January,
1866 He has held this position from
that time until the present moment
The First National Bank was the
depository of the county money from
the time Sohn first became a director
Ito 90 no further back) up to Janua-
ry, 1870, when Reemelin exposed the
defalcation.
Up to Sept. 1868, the county money
was deposited IN the First National
Bank by Treasurer Brant. Braut was
stockholder of the First Nation
al in 1866, and maybe earlier; he was
a director of the bank with Sohn in
1867. The sureties on Brants official
bond were the officers of the First Ma
tional bank.
Brant was succeeded, as county
treasurer, by Lindley; the sureties on
Mr. Lindley's official bond were the
officers of the First National
Every officer of the First National,
except James Beatty and John W,
Sohn, were examined, under oath, by
Mr. Reemelin when he made an exam
nation of the empty county treasury.
in March, 1870 Every officer of the
bank not only had banked on the
county money during Brants two
terms, and Lindley's up to January,
1870, but alsothat the bank had furn-
ished the county treasurer, at different
| times, money with which to cover the
deficit in the Treasury, when the coun-
" Commissioners made their regular
| examinations.
The Post now says that during all
this time, from January 1865 to Janu
ary 1870, while Mr.. Sohn was not only
director of the bank resident in
Hamilton-while the Treasurer was
also director of the bank along with
| Sohn-while the treasurers were vio-
lating the law in depositing the coun
ty money in the First National and
while the First National was covering
the defalcation from the tax payers by
furnishing money to whithwash exam
nations, ''Mr Sohn was totally igno
rant for some time that Mr.. Lindley
had ever made such a disposition o.
public moneys
So, the Post rather than admit that
its candidate for Congress had guilty
knowledge of the regular business Of
the bank, whereof he was, and is, di-
rector-When every other officer and
-attache of the bank knew of the rela-
tionship existing between the, bank and
the Treasury-when the business cir.
cles of Hamilton were continually dis
cussing it, prefers to wrap Mr.. Sohn
up in a cloak of stupid ignorance and
assert for him that he knew nothing oI
it. And yet the post has much to say
of Mr.. SOhn's superior intelligence
and of his capacity and inclination tC
ferret out Administration on eorrup
ton, if elected to Congress. If witt
his facilities to obtain information il
this matter Mr. Sohn was the only
officer in the bank who was igno ran
Of the transactions of the bank will
the Treasury, where does the Post fine
warrant for it's belief that, if elected tt
Congress, Mr.. Sohn will be active il
uncovering frauds and exposing cor
ruption?
But if the Post is willing to admi
it's candidate for Congress to be so stu
pidly ignorant and unobserving, as t.
know nothing of the connection eX
isting between the Bank and the
Treasury, we are not, and for this
reason:
Micajah Hughes, President of th,
First National Bank, in his testimon,
before Mr.. Reemelin, and telling VIII,
the bank had refused to furnish Pete
Schwab money to place in the Treas
ury for Mr.. Reemelin's inspection
said: peter, our BOARD mas passe
a resolution that money should not
FURNISHED AGAIN to be counted in til
Treasury x K - WE had furn
ished money to be counted to th
Commissioners at examinations, an,
to be returned, and we heard enoug
e to be afraid to repeat this. When tn
= money was brought back aOe said i
r should Be the last time such a thin
: should be DONE"
Here is the evidence of the Pres
: dent of the bank that the connectio
n existing between the bank and th
r Treasury had been discussed befol
> the Board, and the language is stron
to the point that that connection Wa
= known to the Board from the begin
: ming. Yet Mr.. Sohn was membe
of this Board, and the Post says l.
was ignorant of matters which M
Hughes says were discussed before I'll
Board, for, maybe, four years.
I tltOn Telegraph.
The Danbury News says, tt
widow of hard shell Democrat VII
recently died in Newton, was aske
by the visiting clergyman if her hu
band had any convictions before /
died. She told him she didn't kno
is for certain, but she had heard hi
g frequently say before he was take
W sick that he "never could go tn
e Greeley"
A St. Louis man, for snatching
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