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HOYNE NAMES LIST OF THOSE
WHO HAVE ESCAPED TAXES
The following is a statement given
out to the press by State's Attorney
Maclay Hoyne:
I have been requested to give the
names of additional persons or cor
porations who escaped the payment
of taxes during the year 1912 through
the consent of the county attorney's
office to the refusal of judgment for
taxes. I give these names, with the
amount of the taxes, arid the page
and the page of the Judgment Re
fused Docket on which they appear:
Docket No. 121 Chicago & Alton
Railway: County, $248.71; West
Park, $5.08; South Park, $118.24;
city, $173.14; sanitary district,
$170.82. Order" was entered in the
County Court by consent refusing
judgment; no amount stated.
Docket No. 128 H. S. Mills:
Judgment refused for $335.80.
Docket No. 142 Chicago, Rock
Island & Pacific Railway: City tax,
$795; sanitary, $575.88; South Park,
$568.84. Judgment refused.
Docket No. 161 P. L. Riggs:
Taxes reduced by refusing judgment
to the amount of $200.
Docket No. 165 C. F. Gunther:
County tax, $91.81; South Park,
$53.08; city, $132.70; sanitary dis
trict, $39.81. Judgment refused.
Docket No. 166 Max Goldstein:
County, $36.21; South Park, $48.28;
city, $120.70; sanitary district, $36.21.
Judgment refused.
Docket No. 167 P. W. Woolworth:
County, $75.72; South Park, $101.04;
city, $252.60; sanitary district, $75.72.
Judgment refused.
Docket No. 168 Koelling & Klap
penbach: County, $91.-32; South
Park, $42.56; city, $106.40; sanitary
district, $31.92. Judgment refused.
Docket No. 169 Willis J. Wells:
County, $33.15; South Park, $44;20;
city, $110.50; sanitary district, $33.15.
Judgment refused.
Docket No. 170 Chicago Consoli
dated Brewing & Malting Co.: Coun
ty, $120.84; West Park, $3.90; South
Park, $97.85; city, $402.80; sanitary,
district, $120.84. Judgment refused.
Docket No. 172 Minnie Carey:
Judgment refused for $321.66.
This practice has been repeated to
such an extent and for so long that .
the total amount of the taxes which (
were uncollected by reason of these f
"consent orders" mounts up into ,
hundreds of thousands of dollars. ,
AnvtTiiqtOF MR. MOUSE ,'
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