The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-26

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Moore & HAYNES. Richmond, Ind, two war
rants of $500 each for twenty cases of
map at $40 per ease, and two warrants
of =. ID each for twenty-one cases OF
physiological charts, aggregating: l,43O.OO
at 500 each. 10000
10000
Il. q II. Beitman, warrants for maps and
charts. .--.------.-. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. ZUO.OO
Z. & &. Beitman, warrants for Office sup
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Trustee Swick. of Washington, received the
following letter from Chicago, which reveals a
new firm that has been duped by the rascalIy
Brown:
CHICAGO, H., Oct. II, 1885.
"Mr. Jas. A. Swick, School Trustee for Washington
Township, Washington, Ind:
Dear Strive beg to hand to you herewith
duplicate shipping bills and invoices of goods
shipped by us to c. H. Brown, school trustee of
Washington township, as follows: Aug. IL, $456;
Aug. Is. 1912; Sept. 10, $499 40: Sept Ia. ST., 587;
Sept. %. 1910; Oct. 2. $40; total, 81 799. 40. All
the goods were shipped as shown by the shipping
bill, except the last item of $40, which did not
go until about Oct. 8, and we cannot lay our
hands on the shipping bill at this writing, but
can forward it later.
I'm regard to all these bills we can only say
they are for goods ordered in writing by Mr.. G.
Il. Brown previous to Aug. ii, last. They were
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order to us, and are goods which, as we under
stand it, he was fully authorized to purchase at
the time.
1--WE have been advised by the railroad com
pany that one or two of the shipments are at
their destination, unclaimed, and would suggest
that you make some arrangements for taking
them out and caring for them. as a portion of
them are of such a character AS will be injured
unless carefully housed and handled. Yours
truly, THOMAS KANE & &c
Dictated: Per Z. c.. DANIELS, Secretary"
There are nearly S., 900 worth of goods in the
above shipment, and Trustee Swick has written
to the Chicago firm and announced that he
would not receive the goods, had no use for them
and would not pay for them. The school sup
plies shipped as per invoice are desks. chairs,
dictionaries, erasers, crayon, tellurians, black
boards, states. window-shades and maps. On
each invoice, except the last, is written in ink:
School warrants received"
Trustee Swick says that up to date from
SIS, 900 to 500. 900 in bonds have been presented
for payment. He steadily refuses to recognize
any of them, and will not hear to the separation
of the legitimate from the ill%egitimate. The
trustees who have taken up their residences in
Canada are often heard from, and frequently
write to their friends in Daviess county. Charles
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the three, and writes to say that the full extent
of the crookedness has not been developed, and
that as soon as it is unearthed the people will
learn something new. 1t is a matter of pity that
so many excellent business men have been duped
into purchasing the fraudulent bonds. The
Washington lind Gazette cites an especial case
in regard to the legitimacy of these bonds:
Some time previous to March, 1883. William
G. Edwards, who was then trustee of Reeves
township, gave two township warrants of 1874. so
each for eleven of the G. Mcbride tellurians. On
March "a, 1885, suit was brought against Reeve
township for the recovery of the money
promised in the warrants, and indorsed by r. B.
Pollard. Gardiner & Taylor were the attorneys
for the township. and O'Neal & Hebron for
j ohm L.. Dodson, the man who brought the suit
against the township. Judge Malott overruled
the demurrer to the complaint, and Gardiner &
Taylor took an appeal to the Supreme Court,
which reversed the rulings of the lower court.
Nov. "a. 1884, Judge Elliott. of the Supreme
Court, held that there was no averment in the
complaint that the goods were necessary or suit
able, or that they were delivered and accepted by
the school corporation. He held that a trustee
has no general authority to execute a township
note, and can only incur "a limited indebtedness
under the statutes. He cited 20 Ind, SOL,
showing that no recovery can be made
upon a note executed for borrowed money:
rs Ind. 1861, where no action could be main
tanned upon a promissory note. The case given
in Volume 80, Indiana Reports, Page 121, ap-
proves the note gwen for property purchased
and used by the township. Judge Elliott held
that a township is liable only on implied CON
tracts. and not on notes, and such contracts can
not exist unless 1T is shown that the school town
ship received the consideration of the notes.
Thus the Supreme Court sustained the demur-
rer to the complaint. Dodson amended the
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and accepted by the township. and the cause
came up for trial again in this county. Judge
Hefron being an interested party in the suit, he
called James Il. Mccullough, a distinguished
member of the Princeton. Ind, bar, to the
bench. The cause came up for trial Tuesday,
and the defendant demurred to the amended
complaint. The court sustained the demurrer
for the reason that the complaint did not aver
that the goods were necessary and suitable for the
township, and sold at reasonable prices. Thus
Dodson, the plaintiff, lost the suit. This case
virtually decides the legality Of the township
warrants given by the decamping trustees, and
shows that the warrants are worthless.
The above, however, is in direct conflict with
many other decisions on the subject.
John Grimsley, one of the Ascending trus-
tees. has managed, through his wife, to dispose
of all OF his personal property. He had a good
farm OF l20 acres, and a pretty little house to
live in. The seductive Pollard painted the out
side world in glowing colors. however, and
Grlmsiey. yielding to the tempter, left his home
and friends. While Grimsley was a man in
good standing. he had the misfortune to be con-
nected with several relatives who were sent to
the penitentiary for counterfeiting.
John Grimsley's wife, in a recent interview
with your correspondent, stated that she was
troubled almost to distraction.
my husband left me without a word, she
said, and did not know what he had done until
| had read it liz the papers. After he had been
gone a long time | got several letters from him..
They were purely on business matters. l don't
know whether | will go to him or not. He wants
TO choose between him and my folks at home. al
though | think a wife's place is by the SIDE of her
husband"
did he ever tell you how much he hadp
o no. she replied; ''he never said any
thing about money, but told me to settle up
affairs and save every dollar I could. They
foreclosed q mortgage on the farm, and I had to