The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1876-04-07

Walls Still ON the War Path.

Walls Still ON the War Path.
HOW HESS, RADICAL CANDIDATE FOR AUDI
Ton or STATE, MIsMASAGrD THE SCHOOL
FUHD-TEE KIND or A MAS nE Is-Cov-
KRfNG Up HIS TRACKS.
Mr.. G. N. Walls, in his paper. the
Danville Indianian. has this to say of
Hess this week: 1t WAS our intention
AT first to expose all the grabs Of WIN.
N. Hess while auditor Of this county
before turning to other questionable
transactions, but he having by some
means discovered our intentions and
set TO work To cover up his trail, we
pass from his illegal claims for the
present and disclose his inefficiency. TO
use no harsher terms. i'm his manage
ment of the school fund. On the 18th
of September. 1874, Warren Ohaver
rnortgaged lot ! ia block 10 in the town
of Danville To the school fund for $3.50
The law makes il obligatory on the
auditor to retain 81 25 OF the amount
borrowed to pay for recording the in.
strument, and also requires him to have
il recorded immediately. Hess die
neither OF these as required by law, bu
i BEAgINe EXPOSURE
he had the mortgage recorded at hi
own expense last Thursday, the l9ti
int, Is months after its date! Six o.
seven weeks after the mortgage was ex
ecut-d November 2, 1879, Ohsver sol'
the same lot 10 his fsther, Corncliu
Ohaver. for e46o, making him war
lranty deed therefore and on the 2d da,
OF March. 1875, Cornelius sold il to hi
lwifc, Eliza j. Ohaver. end executes
another warranty deed 10 her. Nov
the law requires that mortgages hall b
recorded in fory-five dave after thei
date, otherwise they are worthless.
: lis just possible that under isection .
the school law this mortgage may b
held valid, but not under the commo
law, and il so. the soresight OF the Legi'
: lature protects the school fund froI
lioss. but
HESS ISN'T ENTITLED To ANY CREDIT
because there possibly may be som
clause TO protect the fund from loss q
account OF ais inefficicncy or gross ne,
0 lect Of sworn duty. The saving clsui
will, doubtless. require judicial d
: cision to determine whether the NOR
gage is valid in view OF all the premise
. SO greatly does IIesss gross neglect
duty jeopardize that amount of Il
: school fund. Whether the neglect
Official duty was caused by carel.ssne
= or done Intentionally. we are not pr
pared TO say positively: but the fa
- that Hess made no effort 10 have Il
mortgage recorded until the Indiani,
= lgot very close on his trail the fact ia
lIe ruined the Hendricks County Az
J. lcultural Society in 1874. by running
as IL he personally owned the fair; al
IL as he Is accredited with having Civ,
the mOrigager . new suit of clothes
J. help him get the nomination, We lea
Everybody 10 draw his own infersnt
THIS IL THE NiLDEsT CASE
/; OF = series OF transactions by Extra So
/ vice Hess, which have only TO be expo
"A ed 10 convince the public that there
= something rotten" several thousa
A miles this side OF Denmark. If
was not recorded simr
Through carelessness, il demonstral
ce his unftness to hold even a county ,
ice; IL the apparant neglect was desi,
-lit 10 still worse. In any event, Hess
not . suitable person to intrust with /
= management OF state affairs. Unless
are very greatly mistaken in the
ERECTION the trail leads, we think we
ahead at least one transaction VIII
m, when adjudicsted will place two pror
nent Republican candidates where
in whisky ring mournsth.