The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1914-10-16
CLARENCE VAN DEUSEN,
Defendant

State of Idaho, County of Lincoln, SIS
Be it remembered that Frank T.
Disney, Prosecuting Attorney for
Lincoln County, State of Idaho, who
prosecuted on behalf of the state,
comes here in person into court at
this the March, 1910, term thereof,
and the name and in the behalf of the
state, gives the court to understand
and be informed that Clarence Van
Deusen is guilty of the crime of OBJ
tanning property by false and fraudu-
lent representations and pretenses,
committed as follows, to-wit: On or
about the 1st day of August 1909, at
Gooding, Lincoln county, Idaho, the
said Clarence Van Deusen did know
ingly and designedly by false and
fraudulent representations and pre-
lenses defraud another person of per-
sonal property, to-wit: by wilfully and
feloniously, knowingly and designed
ly, falsely and fraudulently represent
ing and pretending to Herman Bros.
Co., corporation, doing business al
Lincoln, Nebraska, that the said
Clarence Van Deusen, doing business
at Gooding, Lincoln County, Idaho, as
Van Deusen & Company, did then and
there have in the mercantile firm OF
Van Deusen & Co, partner named
Dan H. Buckley, and that the said
firm of Van Deusen & Co., bad then
and there no liabilities and debts ex-
cepting the sum of $4,000: the said
Clarence Van Deusen then and there
knowing the same to be false and
fraudulent and that the said firm OF
Van Deusen & Co., did not then and
there have the said Dan H. Buckley as
a partner therein and the said Clar-
ence Van Deusen being then and there
the onlv member of the firm of Va :
Deusen & Co., consisting only OF
Clarence Van Deusen; and that the
said firm Of Van Deusen Co., had
then and there liabilities and debts
greatly in excess of $25090, to-wit
liabilities amounting to about $33IO4O;
and the said Clarence Van Deusen by
said false and fraudulent representa-
ton and pretenses, did willfully, I'M
lawfully and feloniouslv obtain from
the said firm of Herman Bros. Co.
credit and personal property to the
amount of about $986.40, all of which
is contrary to the form of the statute:
in such cases made and provided anc
against the peace and dignity of thu
State of Idaho.
The said Prosecuting Attorney fur
Their informs the court that at Sho
shone, in said county of Lincoln, Stat
of Idaho, on the 18th day of February
an examination of said charge
was had against the said Clarence Val
Deusen, defendant, before Hon. J. L
Fuller, probate Judge in and Tor Lin
coin county, Idaho, and upon a ful
and complete examination OF SAT-
charge upon the dispositions OF Waite
Wright and Frank Z. Swcetser, tn
said defendant was held to answer Il
this court, upon the sad charge a
this the next term thereof, and tina
il is on a personal examination o
said dispositions that this information
is made.
Whereof the said Frank t. Disney
Prosecuting Attorney aforesaid, pray
the consideration of the court tina
due process of law may be awarde
against the said defendant to max
him answer to the State OF Idaho
touching and, concerning the premise
aforesaid. ,,
FRANK T. DISNEY,
Prosecuting Attorney Of Lincoln
Deposition of Sheriff.
In the District Court of the Fourt
Judicial District of the State OF ldah
in and for the county OF Lincoln,
STATE OF IDAHO,
Plaintiff.
CLARENCE VAN DEUSEN,
Defendant.