Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1922-01-12
COUNTY BOARD
SESSION LIVE
INVESTIGATION RESULTS
IN RESIGNATION OF
SUPERVISOR

unusual activity last Saturday morn
ing, one of its final acts being the ac-
ceptance of the resignation of Louis
9. Leak, supervisor of the fourth
ward, as a result of an investigation
conducted by special committee OF
the board appointed during the first
part of the week.
Committee Report
The report of the committee reads
as follows:
ITO the Honorable County Board of
Supervisors of Marathon County:
Your special committee, appoint
ed January 8, 1922, pursuant to reso-
luton, duly adopted by the board Of
supervisors of Marathon county at this
session to investigate the truth and
obtain the facts with reference to the
rumors that are afioat concerning
Louis G. Leak, a member of this board,
and report findings to this body beg
leave to respectfully report as follows
our findings in this matter:
"Your committee Immediately after
appointment by your chairman, went
into executive session and held hear
ings and various individuals alleged
to have knowledge as to certain ir-
regularities in the official conduct of
Supervisor Leak, were called before
this committee and their statements
were heard and have been considered.
Your committee finds, first, in the
brief time we have had for investiga-
tion, that there are grounds for the
rumors of irregularity in the conduct
of said supervisor.
ss0u fha fret ga,Ipf that ne ann,n
priating to himself certain lot Of
cord wood, belonging to the county,
and delivered to him or to his prem
ises, but paid for out of county funds,
at his direction, we find that said
supervisor, Louis G. Leak, appropri-
ated to himself, in the year 1921 coun-
ty property consisting of sixteen cords
and eight feet of four-foot hardwood,
and that later on, or about the 9Th
or 7th of December, 1921, said super
visor paid into the county treasury
the sum of $4,000 in partial payment
or reimbursement to the county for
the property SO appropriated to him
self, which property belonged to the
county of Marathon.
"Your committee is firmly of the
opinion that to this count, said SUI
pervisor is guilty of the charge, and
he has made admissions orally to the
committee amounting to a confession
of guilt.
Your committee also endeavored
to run down other rumors as to ir-
regularities in the conduct of the SUI
pervisor under suspicion, and as to a
certain transaction, involving the APP
to himself of supply Of
wall paper, and possibly other interi-
or decorating material. to the amount
of approximately $4,000, purchased
from q local dealer and paid for out of
county funds, your committee, after
such investigation as it was able to
make in the short time allotted to it,
is unable to find positively that there
has been and irregularity on the part
of this supervisor on this count or
this transaction.
dated at Wausau, Wis.,, this 9th
day of January, 1922.
Respectfully submitted,
GEORGE ERICKSON, Chm.
ROBERT HAMILTON,
"A, j. PETERSON,
JOHN DITrBRENDER
FIRED GEHRING,
Supervisors in and for
Marathon County, Wis" e
(The county treasurer has received
two checks totaling $164 from Snper-
visor Leak, stated to be in payment for
"wood".)
Appreciate Board
The annual report OF the Marathon
County Park board was read and ac-
cepted Friday, the supervisors being
very much pleased over the excellent
work of this year. The report in
cludes a record of the work at Mara
thon park, preceded by the accept
ance of the deed by the county, the
gift of $4,000 by G. C. Yawkey and
$4,000 by the late ID. l.. Plumer 1t
further explains the construction work
done this year, including the grand
stand, barn and stock pavilion, and
the building Of roads through the park
as we'll as log cabin to be used as a
rest room or shelter house.
Mr.. Yawkey was present and was
called upon for brief talk. Follow
ing his remarks, Al. l.. Kreutzer spoke.
A tract of eight acres was also pre-
sented to the county this year by the
Wisconsin Box company, through its
president, T.. A. Gooding Upon the
passage Of A. Il. Beebee's resolution,
the park was named Gooding park
Supervisor M l.. Smiths resolu-
ton calling for sanitary milk and re-
questing certain actions, was adopted.
The board carried the resolution APP
propriating $4,000 for testing all cat
tie in the county for tuberculosis. The
is carried on in conjunction
with the state and federal govern
ment which will appropriate similar
amounts for the work locally.
To Employ Abstractor
The war relics committee of the
board reported a balance on hand of
S1,09S.7S. An abstractor will be en-
ployed by the finance committee to in
vestigate the tax certificates held by
the county, determining their legality
and value. A report will be made at
the next meeting of this.
The placing of insurance policies.
was next discussed Supervisor Ches-
ak declaring that rumors had been
efrriIIafad IN fha offaaf that ba had