The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1900-07-20
GRAVE CHARGE.
J. D. Casselberry Indicted
for Forgery.


cutor in the case is the chairman of
the County Court of Shelby, who
seeks to secure returns of certain
monies alleged to have been fraud
ulently obtained from the County
treasury. So far as the fact have
been allowed to become public, so
the Memphis papers state, it seems
that Casselberry collected money
by means of papers he procued to
represent in himself the power of
attorney.
The case investigated was one in
vested in parties residing in
Missouri, or supposed to reside there,
and on the strength of this particular
paper he secured S30.52, which was
to the credit of a woman whom he
claimed to represent.
There are certain funds under the
jurisdiction of the county chairman,
due parties unidentified. They
have in some instances descended
from chairman to chairman, many
of them being stopped from age,
and the supposition has been that
they never would be claimed. Cas-
selberry secured, so the chairman
states, alleged papers giving him
power of attorney, and collected ac-
counts in the name of Mann, sur
viving partner of Mann q Bolton,
for $l97; S. A. Holmes, SAT; ]. II.
Knorp, $50; Ed Walsh, ST.; which
accounts were collected on letters of
administration, and Lille III. Good
hue, $50, and Charles III. Jackson,
SI3l, collected under the power of
attorney. Casselberry knew that
the unclaimed funds from the Coun-
ty and Chancery Courts were turned
over to the chairman, and last
month he presented an order setting
forth power of attorney as follows:
Know all men by these presents, That the I'M
designed, Lille II. GOOdhue, of the State of Mis-
souri,, has this day nominated. constituted and
appointed, and do hereby by these presents nom
mate, constitute and appoint J. d. Casselberry as
my true and lawful attorney at law, and attorney
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in my name, room and stead from the chairman OF
the county court of Shelby county, Tennessee, or
other officer having possession of the same, a sum
of money amounting to s3O.52, due me and ordered
to be paid to me by the Chancery Court of Shelby
county, Tennessee; and which has been in accord
anee with later order of said county in the case
Of William Cash, ct al, Maria Cash. ct al, No.
$3.50 of said court, paid over by the clerk and
master of said court to the said chairman of said
county court. do further hereby and by these
presents authorize and empower my said attorney
tosu for and receive said any part thereof,
and do solemnly swear am the identical person
to whom said money is due and payable
LILLE H. GOoDHUE.
State of Missouri, County Of Lafayette.
Before me, the undersigned r. P. Wallace,
notary public duly elected, commissioned, qualified
and acting in and for said Lafayette county, Mis-
souri,, personally appeared Lille II. GOodhue, the
bargainor in the within and foregoing instrument,
with whom am personally acquainted, and who
acknowledged and made oath in due form of law
that she signed, executed and delivered the said
within and foregoing instrument for the purpose
therein contained and expressed.
Witness my hand and notarial seal this, the Dist
day Of June, 1900. r. P. WALLACE.
(Seal)
Notary Public for Lafayette County, Mo.
Chairman Young called up Cas-
selberry and had a talk with him
about the business, and the result
was so unsatisfactory that he wrote
to the clerk of the County Court of
Fayette county, Mo-, and in return
received the following letter:
Lexington, Mo.
State Of Missouri, County of Lafayette-SS.
/, Frank Thornton, clerk of the county court of
Lafayette county, Missouri do hereby certify that
have carefully examined the records in office |
and find no record of a commission authorizing r. |
p Wallace to act a notary public within and for
Lafayette county, Missouri.
And further certify that section 1896, article |
H. chapter 1S5 of the revised statutes of Missouri,
1898, provides that the commissions of notaries !
public, within and for any county in the State Of
Missouri, must be filed and recorded in the office
Of the clerk of the county court in the county in
which such notary is authorized TO act before his
tets are legal.
Witness my hand and the seal of the county
ourt of Lafayette county, Missouri this 9th day of
July, 1900. FRANK THOMSON.
(Seal)
Clerk of the County Court Within and For La
ayette County Mo.
CasselbeTry was again called to
he chairman's office, and this time
ne conversation assumed a more
serious tone. Chairman Young in
.ormed Casselbery of the facts.
Jasselberry seemed surprised, and
aid the power of attorney had
,een obtained by a man named Hig-
Rms and that if there were any
in the document it
vas his fault.
Later on Squire Young decided to
make further inquiry into the bus
ness, and called in the services of
Detective Perkins, who reported to
he chairman that on May 81, 1900,
I. ID. Casselberry had ordered from
he establishment of Frank Ellis, on ,
Ionroe street, a seal identical with :
hat employed on the Goodhue ,
'ower of attorney. The seal cost :
g, and the report was that this bill I;
ad never been paid. This seal
eads as follows:
"Seal, r. p. Wallace, Notary
public, Lafayette Co."
Shortly after this Casselberry
anne again before Squire Young
nd presented letters of admins
ration in still another case. He /
'as crowding matters, and Chair +
ian Young refused TO RECOGNIZE the O