The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1882-06-24

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The several indictments against W.
A. CnsacdHy, Tor embczzlement OF school
moneys that came into his hands as
agent FOR McLennan county, came up IN
the listric court yesterday and were
quashed Mr. Cassoday was H. dictod
under "A law which made the retention OF
money by an agent OF an Incorporated
body or institution embezzlement The
court held substantially on the motion
OF the defendant that while McLennan
coun is municipal corporation, a
body corporate AMI polite, it is not al
Incorporated body or institution. 50 the
docket was cleared without going to the
Jury on the facts. Such result must be
singularly encouraging to Judge Gerald
aud the conntyc mmissiOners who have
striven so hard to lrotect the county,
interests in this matter Mr. Casseday
seems to be singularly favored by the
luirks " the law. One OF the pro rie-
tors Of his paper once occupied the
same POSITION to Mr.. CHssedaY that Me
Lehman county has 80 recently occupied
His eX erience, 1t may be stated, was
identical with what the county ia now
experieu ing, Tor def ctive law was
Mr.. Cnssedays guardian angel then.
More than five years ago Mr. CassedHy
was entrusted with the agency OF certain
bodies Of land belonging to the heirs OF
g. III. Hubby, senior. Mr.. Casseday re.
ported the 81 q Of a certain tract Of thi-
land; stating he had taken notes
therefor and when these
notes were collected he would
turn over the proceeds, Two years
passed, but Mr. Cassoday prOfered no
settlement, no money. His 4 eady e1-
cuse wnH mo collections made yet on
tho notes Finally, wenried OF wait
ing and growing distrustful, the heirs
demanded that he surrender the notes
which lac claimed to have received. 9th.
er delays followed; Mr. Cnsseday would
plead that the notes were i'll so.und.s
hands, at Hamilton, or Sterhenville (the
lands were in that section of the state
tor collection; he would got them, OF
send for hem. Again, it was difficult to
bee Mr., Casseday in those days. He was
ON the go all the time, rarely ever in
Waco, and the Iartiep whose lands he
had sold werr then living in the country
II was only Mt in Ell walls OF two to
three months they could get Il
sight Of Mr.. Casseday, and
then he wns proiuse OF EXCUSES as above
stated. Thoroughly disgusted, the
matter was placed III the hands Of law.
yer, Gen. Felix ii. Robertson, Tor inveB-
tigation and settlement. Armed with
full authority 60 act, Gen. RObcr son
treated with Mr. Casseday for another
si1 months, but got no money nor no
notes. His Investigations however dis
closed the fact that Mr.. Uasseday, in
stcnd OF selling this land and taking
notes to cure payment, as he had re-
pcntcdly and explicitly stated he had
Ind sold them long ago FOR CASH, which
he held aud has never accounted for Ia
this day, with the exception Of one hun
drcd dollars out OF several hundred that
hc received. FOrbearance had ceased
to De virtue. One uI
the parties Interested went before
kle grand jury OF McLennan county
then in session Gall Of lS7D,J and related
the fac q, asking that Mr. Casaeduy ba
Indicted. To his RstOnishment the then
county attorney rsled that the statut,
OF limitation barred the way TO an i'll
dio'mout, as 1t had been over three Year,
from t Is time Mr.. Cnsseday had received
tho money to the time OF making com
plant to the grand jury. This was
true, but it hid not Leen mo than Il
year that the complainant had becsmt
NWHtt bl MI CNbNeuuA y sluuOuH pro
ceedings. Up to that time it was sup.
posed Mr. Cassedny was doing the square
thing. Thus, on that occasion, AZ on
yesterday. the law opened its meshes and
Mr.. Cassoday passed complacently out
nm cathed, AZ far AZ the law WAS CON
cerued. These ARE some of the reAHOnt
that induce the remark, made at the
outset OF this article. that Mr.. Casseday
seems to he singulnrly favored by the
quirks and bubbles of claw as is law.
This episode with Mr.. Casseday has lea
sened the school fund IT McLennnn
county, first aud last, not less than two
Thousand dollars, gone glimmering, like
last years April shower and Mr.. Cas-
sedHy IL presumably happy. The moral
IL that any man, not II county
official, who happens to get hold oi
money belonging tn McLennan or any
other county cnn apply 1t Mt his own
sweet will, as he chooses, and the law
cannot touch him.