Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-04-13
alleged Mr.. Cremer overcharged for

alleged Mr.. Cremer overcharged fol
mileage. .t.
r. r. Fellows of Douds told of tax
ing subpoena handed him by the
county attorney on April 26, 1915, tc
the sheriff's office and there having
! some entries made in it. He then took
! 1t to his home and 1t was served upon
! himself and another man by himself
He said that he did not notice that II
had been made out for service IN
Wapello county when in reality ser
vice was made in Van Buren, county
He said that the entries on 1t were
made on it by Charles r. Doran, who
was then deputy sheriff, at the dicta
ton of Mr.. Cremer, the sheriff.
He maintained that he did not no
tice whether or not the subpoena was
signed by Mr. Cremer when he re-
turned it but was sure that there
were no mileage or expenses charged
on the back of it at that time al
though there was on the paper as II
was admitted to record. This was
written on the typewriter and bore
the words, 1880 expense" 1t con
tanned charge for twenty.seven miles
of mileage when the subpoena had
been served originally on Mr.. Fellows
In this city.
Identifies Bills.
County Auditor Fred L. Bissell 1den'
titled bills and claims filed In his OF
flee by Mr.. Cremer, allowed by the
board of supervisors and paid by him
All of these were conceded to by Mr.
Cremer's attorneys Some quarterly
reports and exhibits Nos. 2 to Al, in
elusive, were identified by Mr.. Bis
sell and admitted as evidence.
Deputy Clerk Samuel Hawks took
the stand for few minutes to testify
to exhibits Nos. 4S to 234, inclusive
being district court subpoenas and
grand jury subpoenas which have been
filed in the clerks Office by the sher
if and on which fees have been taxed
where allowed.
NosIer Looks over Returns.
H. G. Nosler, justice of the peace fol
Center township, identified some pa
pers known as exhibits Nos. 285 to
26O, inclusive, as informations and
warrants issued from his ONCE and
returned showing service had been
made.
He said he thought that they all had
been returned by Sheriff Cremer, but
when that officers attorneys called
attention to the fact that some had
been made by Doran, the witness said
that If the records showed that then
it was true. but he could not remember
distinctly about each one without
looking at them.
NosIer Changed Record.
Speaking of exhibit No. 235, sub
poena in the G. H. Woolums case, Mr.
Nosler said that he had changed the
amount of fees and expenses in the
return on the back This, he said,
was done in the sheriff's ONCE in the
presence of both Cremer and Doran'
He said that he changed the figures
because he did not consider the
amounts charged sufficient so he
called the attention of the sheriff and
the deputy sheriff to the fact and
changed it while they watched him.
He then went to his office and
changed his books to conform and In
"1red this change In his quarterly re-
port. -.
lie denied telling the sheriff's at
torneys within the last month that ne
knew nothing about the change and
told the state that he did not know
that when Cremer arrested Woolums
he brought him into town without any
warrant, fact which it charges.
Telephoned Witness.
Jesse Breon, manager of the tele-
phone at Hedrick and a farmer near
there, told of being called to Ottumwa
as a witness in the case of the state
of Iowa VS.. Chester Smith on Septem-
Der 16, 1915.
He said that he was working in the
field when his wife came out and told
him the central girl at Hedrick had
phoned that the sheriff at Ottumwa
was wanting him as witness in the
Smith case. ~
He came here Immediately but
swears that no subpoenas were read
to him until he reached here and was
standing in the sheriff's office when he
was served. He cited like experience
which DR.. w. H. Mclaughlin Of He'd
rick had on the same case at the same
time, both of them coming here to-
gether.
Mr.. Breon said that he does not
know who gave him the subpoena and
he maintained that he did not know
about the sheriff being in
Hedrick looking for him although fif-
teen miles mileage was charged in his
case. He did know that Mr.. Cremer
had been in Hedrick twice before on
the Smith case.
Boy Was Subpoenaed.
Floyd Dean, II year old high
school lad who has lived mile north
of Hedrick all of his life, told of being