The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1899-09-28

Case Against the Former Deputy Treas
urer is Dismissed at the Pre-
Iiminary Hearing Today.
MONEY HAS BEEN PAID IN FULL

The Parties in tne Action Seem to Have
Made an Agreement and the District
Attorney Asked for the Dismissal of the
case.-The Facts of the Case Are Made
Public for the First Time by Deputy
Treasurer Hansen.
Harry Boardman, who was arrested
a short time ago on a charge of en-
bezz1ing some 700 from the funds of
the county treasury, is a free man, for
when he was brought up before Justice
Slater this morning for a preliminary
hearing the District Attorney made a
motion that the case against the pris-
oner be dismissed and the costs
charged to the prosecution When the
case came up this morning a large
crowd gathered to hear the evidence in
the case. For several days it had been
rumored that a settlement was being
made and the action of the preliminary
examination proved the truth of the
rumor. Attorney Norman L. Baker
appeared for the defendant, and as
soon as the case was called he address
ed the court and stated the defense as
offered by Mr.. Boardman. He stated
that a mistake had been made by the
county repository, the Northwestern
Loan and Trust company, whereby the
| former deputy treasurer had been
given credit for a large amount in &C
cess of what had been deposited.
From this amount he had drawn out
! the amount of the excess. And in do
| ing this he had not intended to either
defraud the county or the treasurer.
AT this time he was obliged to go to
| Washington on account of the serious
| illness of his sister, who had been
injured in a runaway. Upon hearing
that a mistake had been made at the
repository he at once came to Kenosha
from Washington and was prepared to
settle the matter. Later the attorney
stated that the matter had been settled
in such a way that no one connected
would loose a cent.
When the attorney for the defense
had made this statement District At
torney Buckmaster asked that Thomas
! Hansen be a11u ed to withdraw the
complaint made against Boardman,
but the Justice refused to allow the re-
quest and stated that if the allegations
of the complaint were true the people
of the county had right to demand a
hearing of the case and he would not
dismiss it except on the motion of the
District Attorney. District Attorney
Buckmaster then entered such a mo-
ton for dismissal Of the case and the
prisoner was at once discharged from
custody and the case against him dis
missed. The abrupt termination of
the case caused great deal of sur
prise among people not directly inter
ested in the case. Mr.. Hansen, who
was influential in bringing about the
arrest of Boardman, said that there
was nothing more to be said on the
matter than what had been said in the
court room.
Boardman has made good all the
money which was missing, and as Mr..
Gronquist was the only one who was
directly interested in the prosecution
of Boardman, the case has been dis
missed at the formers request The
costs of the action, which amounted
to little less than eight dollars, were
paid by Mr.. Gronquist as soon as the
case was dismissed.
Some examination into the case
shows that the defendant in the action
had been working on settlement OF
| the case since his arrest three weeks
ago, 1t seems that he secured the
money for the payment of the deficit
from an uncle in Chicago, and it was
the agreement between the parties that
the case should be dismissed as soon
as the shortage was made good.