162:; the only people notified were Bartley's attorney and the prison warden. Savage's decision was so unpopular that the Republican state convention — Savage's own party — passed a resolution condemning it and requesting that it be canceled, by a vote of 998 to 165. On August 27, Savage made a public statement explaining his reasons for having granted Bartley parole, including that he expected Bartley would assist in efforts to recover the missing money, and that if Bartley did not, the parole would expire after 60 days; nonetheless, Savage revoked Bartley's parole the next day. Bartley protested that he should be allowed to remain free until September 13, but Savage emphasized that the resolution called for Bartley's immediate re-incarceration.
119:: Omaha resident Josiah S. Wright had offered one juror $ 75 (the equivalent of $ 2862 in 2024 money) to acquit Bartley, on behalf of an individual who Wright could not identify. Wright pleaded guilty and was sentenced to two years in prison. The prosecution finished its arguments four days later. On June 23, Bartley was found guilty. On June 26, he was sentenced to twenty years in prison and a fine of $ 303,768.90 (the equivalent of $ 11.6M in 2024 money), and was "remanded to jail pending a hearing of a motion for a new trial." His attorneys requested that he be released on bail pending appeal; however, he was unable to raise the $ 125,000 requested.
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Bartley. Contemporary media noted speculation that Savage had expected Bartley to return the missing
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attempted to interview him; when asked about allegations he was supporting himself on interest payments from loans taken with the embezzled money, Bartley stated "That is my business and I refuse to talk about it." At some point before 1910, Bartley left
Nebraska, and eventually settled in Colorado,
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Supreme Court was pending." In addition to his statement, Savage also cited "petitions containing the names of more than 4,000 of the state's most prominent citizens, asking for Bartley's freedom;" by January 10, 1902, there were reports that signatures on the petitions
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Bartley's associates who had paid his bond. In February 1898, a jury found in favor of the defendants, and the case was dismissed. In December 1898, the Supreme Court of Nebraska overturned the dismissal and ordered a new trial. The second trial took place
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Hitchcock of having "borrowed large sums of money from Joseph S. Bartley during the time when Mr. Bartley was treasurer of the state of Nebraska, which money has never been returned to the state treasury nor to the pocket of Joseph Bartley". Later that month, Bartley offered to return to
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January 7, 1897. It was subsequently discovered that he was unable to transfer the state's treasury funds to his successor. In February 1897, the Nebraska Legislature "appointed a joint committee to make recommendations concerning
112:; as such, Smyth had the second charge against Bartley "dismissed without prejudice to a new action". On April 30, Bartley was arrested for a third time; on May 8, the Nebraska State Banking Board seized Bartley's bank, the Exchange Bank of Atkinson.
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284:; "(W)hen the roll was called on nominations for state treasurer, Joseph S. Bartley, of Holt County, was named before it was half finished. It was, in fact, never completed, the call being suspended and the nomination made by acclamation."
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in July 1899, and the jury found in favor of the state. In
December 1899, the Supreme Court of Nebraska overturned this verdict as well, and ordered a third trial. That trial took place in July 1901, with a verdict in favor of the state.
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THE POTENT POWER OF POLITICS - It Raised Joseph S. Bartley to a High Official Station, Then Sent Him to Prison, And After a Lapse of Five Years Finally Set Him Free.
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and that he had been punished enough; by 9 pm, Bartley had been released. He had spent four years and six months in prison, "in addition to a year in the
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