The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-01-05

amount equivalent to some twelve thousand
dollars additional would have been recovered
from them. The SUN total of the foregoing
| Judgments is twenty Thousand and seventy.
six dollars and sixty cents GU u'6.oO
Tins Board will remember that al one time,
not quite year ago, when making state
ment 10 this honorable body at your request,
IN reference To the then alleged Indebtedness
OF Mr.. Raymond and his bondsmcn, | stated
that In pursuance of this authority vested Ia
me by you, | offered to compromise this
Indebtedness for about thirteen thousand dol
lars, which statement then seemed to meet
with your approval, but happily for the
interest of the county my otter would not
even be listened 10 by those interested AS
defendants.
Prior to this time aud while preparing in.
dictmeuts against Mr. Raymond, | made a
demand on him for the money then owing by
him in ms official capacity 70 the county
demand on him became necessary prior TO
The finding of an indictment against him for
Withholding money In response 10 that de
maud, aud, | apprchend, for the purpose of
preventing, ii possible, such an indictment AS
vas thea contemplated 10y the grand jury, Mr..
Raymond came to me and offered the sum of
eleven thousand dollars. | directed him at
once to the then treasurer, ana IN conformity
with my request he paid into your treasury
the sum of eleven thousand dollars. All OF
these facts | apprehend have been more or
less known to some of your honorable body
though this is the first time 1t has come IN
this manner before you.
I entire amount, therefore, collected by
me rs already indicated, from Mr.. Raymond
or his suretes, in round numbers, aggregate
thirty.oue thousand aud seyenly-slX dollars
ana sixty cents, for the Hon. Lorenzo Leland
paid me the amount of the foregoing judg.
ments on September the llth last. The judy.
- .,,hi I'D short
the date last named, but received no interest
on them-only the principal. However,
before | consented to take the principal with
out the interest, | consulted your honorable
chairman, aud some other members OF the
Board on the subject and explained 10 then
that it was represented to me that it was diff
ticult to get all the bondsmen together, aud
that AS soon as it Was collected 1t wonld be
paid and they unhesita,ingly agreed with me
that it was only right under the circumstances
to give them time to collect and not charge
interest. OF this S3l 016.60 there has been
paid into your treasury the sum OF twenty
i've thousand niue hundred and sixty el2ht
dollars and ninety-four cents (S25 ,96o94) |
retaining ten per cent which the law allowed
me and | gave to my two assistants, Mr..
Brewer and Mr.. Stead, one thousand dollars
each. This ! did for the reason that | was
authorized to employ those men or any others
that | might choose. They worked long,
ably and patiently with me, aud You know
gentlemen, that we had to contend against all
of the able legal talent at our bar, and that
means the ablest legal talent in the State, for
our bar is second 10 none. Seeing III Septem-
Der that could not make final report to
your body aud hoping and expecting to get "A
decision daily, deemed IL only just TO those
gentlemen, who for over year had worked
without receiving compensation OF any klna,
to let them have part OF the fruits OF thelr
hard-earned industry. OF course, hold my
self responsible to this Board for my conduct
ia this regard, and on Il final, fair and honest
presentation OF all the facts to this Board the
entire matter of compensation to attorneys
will oe amicaOly and satisfactorily settled. In
passing, however, | would say that Al tue
llme | paid those gentlemen, they had rem.
dered services to the number OF one hundred
and forty days each, and TINS does not include
the many nights they worked with me IN my
Office. Their work was able, efficient, and in
our long aud laborious duties they were ON all
occasions to me and the interests Of the peo-
pie true as steel.
In addition to the foregoing sums paid into
treasury, the further sum of SI9I 80 was pald
by Arthur 7 Bartels into the county treasury,
| also commenced suit against the last
named gentleman and his bOndsmeL, aud was
ready to submit his case to Judge Supp Tor
trial lust summer at the termination OF Mr..
Miligan's case, but Judge Supp did not then
DIES re to be burdcned with any more of these
suits until he had disposed OF the Milhgan
case. ! will say, however, that Captain ful-
iertou and myself have agreed ON The lacts
in Bartels' case and it is ready to be disposed
of as soon as We can get judge to hear IT,
There are only few and not very Intricate
questions of law involved in this ease, ana J
apprehend before this term of Court ends, we
will submit the same to the Hon. Dorrence
Dbell, who at present prcsldes IN our circuit
Court This at least is our intention. The
amount | expect to recover from that source
will be in the neighborhood OF four thousand
dollars.
| also commenced suits against Mr. Stock
slerer and his boudsmen--three in number
They have not been disposed of for the same
reasons suggested in the Bartels case. In
those cases | submitted to the Hon. Duncan
McDougall, who represented Mr.. Stockslcger,
nm itemized statement (thc laborious result of
your efficient commlttce) OF the amounts dis
covered that he was owing. This did with
the understanding that he would cause the
same to be verified, and any items that we
could not agree upon either as the facts or
the law as applicable to them, we would submit
such disputed points to the court. he has
caused au examination to be made, but unfor-
tuuately we have come to no agreement on
the subject. Within the past few weeks,
however, in an indirect way, learned that he
no longer represented Mr. Stocksleger, but as
to this latter ! caniot vouch for the accuracy
of my information. However, the Hon. VIII
liam Cullen, one of StoCksleger's bOndsmen,
requested of me Il statement OF the facts in
his case, AS well as to apportion the different
amounts among the different bonds 80 that
they could see how much each each would
have to pay. All of the bondsmen in those
cases have not been served owing TO the in
ability of the sheriff to reach them. This
present week made out statement of facts
as well as apportioncd the different amounts
among the respective bonds in accordance
with Mr. Culleu's request, and handed them to
Hon. Sumner Cullen, ore of the respected
members of this Board for yerification. am
assured, and have every confidence in that
REPORT of OVERS