The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-08-13
left town. He has not been back since.
and the presumption is that he is in

left town. He has not been back SINCE
and the presumption is that he is in
Canada.
HOW 1T WAS DONE.
II was shortly after the investigation in
sttuted by the Shelby county commission
ers that Rays bogus township trustee or
ders began to pour in for collection, and 1t
is in connection with the trial that sought
to enforce their collection that the light of
day was let in upon his transactions. 1t
was shown that Ray furnished all kinds of
school supplies maps. charts, globes,
erasers, crayons etc. Necessity and re-
quirement appeared to have cut no figure
and the same trustee would duplicate his
order for the same material time and time
again. One article that appears to have
been prime essential to the training Of
the youthful idea of Shelby county was
Chambera's ENCYCLOPEDIA, which whole
sales at S1l and retalls at from Slb to SIS.
all thirty-one sets OF Chambers were
sold to Shelby county trustees at 81. 500,
when the ontside figure should not have
exceeded S55S. But while the record shows
that thirty-One sets of Chambers were
bought, diiigent search through the school
houses of Shelby county shows that less
than one third of that number of sets were
delivered. The same is true of the other
loads of stuff with which these orders
wOnld indicate that the interior OF the
Shelby county sohool-houses had been dec
Grated. In searching for evidence with
which to fortify themselves for or against
the collection of these orders. Adams &
Carter for the paper-b0lders, and HOrd u
Adams for the townships, visited nearly
every schO0l-hOuse In the county, and
their finding was that barely one-fourth
OF the pa-aphernalie alleged to have
been sold was ever delivered. This was
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standing orders against which aggregate
S-0,0O0. In the trial OF the cases every
school-teacher In the township. all OF whom
had been In the work at least two years,
testified that practically nothing In the
way of supplies had been furnished. One
OF the attorneys engaged in these cases In
formed the representative of the Journal
that Sl,500 would cover everything that
was FURNISHED, for which these orders to
the extent of thirty-five or forty Thousand
dollars had been hoated. Although it was
conclusively shown that the bulk of the
stuff alleged to have been bought was never
delivered. there Is another explanation to
the Tact that practically none of 1t was
found III the school houses.
When the trustees implicated were re-
moved their successors were instructed to
receive nothing that the decapitated Otfi-
Gals had ordered. To stave OFT exposure,
although tie warrants bore interest from
the date that the order was given. 1t was
stipulated that the goods should not be
shipped until specified date. Higgins
Montgomery and Duty were removed be-
fore any considerable quantity of the sup
plies arrived. and the fact OF their snc-
cessors refusing to receive the material
shipped explains how 1t happens that the
freight depots at Shelbyville. Morristown.
Manila. Flat Rock and Lewis Creek are
even to-day piled full of globes, maps,
charts, etc. unclaimed and held by the rail
road for freight charges unpaid. 1t 10 also
shown that the goods that were supplied
were out of date and of inferior quality.
hay himself, when on tho witness-staud-