Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-10-24

republicans of the state the governor
ship. The state treasurers had unf-
formly followed the practice of TAX
ing interest on the state deposits in
banks. in some cases 2 per cent, in
others per cent and in some cases as
much as 4 per cent. The constitution
expressly forbid it, but there was some
force in their excuse that inasmuch as
they We're made responsible for the
safe keeping of the money and would
have to stand any loss that might
occur, they believed it to be only JUS
tice they should receive any benefits
they could. The banks paid the money
in various ways. SO that 1t was hard
to trace the deals, and they might not
have been traced but for the fact that
some of the banks paying interest in
that way failed and went into the
the hands of a receiver and he mad
.vertently permitted some of the papers
to be seen by interested persons. One;
of the state tfeasurerS was nominated
for governor. and the fact that he had
been taking interest Illegally was
proved on him and that fact beat him..
He had taken probably 100000 in this
way. This may never happen in Iowa
and certainly will not as long as the
present line of good state officials is
kept in office, but nobody knows what
might happen.
The case of old Andrew Thompson,
the convict, and his little bank account
which was stolen and squandered, IL
justice. The supreme court of Iowa
a 5aI
recover from the bank at Anamosa the
s309 wrongfully paid to w. c. Gil
brath, the clerk of the prison. The
clerk had drawn the money on Thomp-
sons certificate of deposit, without
taking the trouble to secure Thomp-
sons signature. This, it seems, was
the custom as between the banks and
the prison clerks. The court says that
because Thompson was convict he
was not incapacitated from attend
ing to his private business, and the
clerk had no right to get the money
nor the bank to pay thence the bank
must pay again. The money was
drawn out February 1, 1898, nearly nine
years ago. Thompson died two weeks
ago, an old man, having spent thirty
years of his life in the penitentiary
for a crime committed on the Mississippi |
river. He was n resident of Fayette
and took two women in sleigh
one cold winter night, smothered them
with blankets and then put the bodies
beneath the ice of the river. 1t was
said that the crime was really COM
mitted on the Wisconsin side, but he
confessed and located it in Iowa to es-
cape the Wisconsin gallows. But all
this did not make it excusable for a
bank to pay his money out to prison
clerk who would fail to account for the
cash.
1t is expected the Iowa supreme court |
will adjourn today or tomorrow. The
term has been long one. and a larger
number of cases have been submitted
than usual. and also a larger number
of court decisions than in any pre-
vious term for a number of years.
When the court is done with the term
1t will have disposed of about $50
causes. Several of these have been
important and have necessitated the
reading of great many references.
The court has been rushing things thru
rs if bent on reducing the distance be-
tween it's work and the work of the
lawyers
AT least one city of the state has had
\ carnival this year, of which 1t may
be proud. Travelling men who visited
Perry last week unite in saying that
The carnival and street fair held there
luring the week was one of the most
ever permitted to get out
1oors. The shows were excellent, and
IN the main clean, the parades We're
beautiful. the city was handsomely
decorated. there We're big crowds and
good order was maintained at all times.
The latter was out of the ordinary. con-
sidering that on the last night the
town was permitted to go out in masks
md the Elks had a nightgown parade
n the public streets. Quite number
vent from Des Moines and We're de-
lighted with Perry.
Glover Acquitted.
Gettysburg. S. D.. Oct. 24.-The jury
IN the trial of John Glover, accused OF
he murder of Tom Daily, brought in a Il
verdict Of not guilty. J.