John H Bodley
Cincinnati Enquirer, 11 February 1894, page 6
The statement contained exclusively in yesterday's Enquirer,
concerning the alleged shortage on the party of Deputy County Clerk Bodley, at
Alexandria, was the cause of considerable comment yesterday.
The he is indebted to County Clerk Jones for certain fees collected in the office is an acknowledged fact, but Mr. Bodley says that the amount alleged to be due to Mr. Jones is offset by money due him from Mr. Jones.
Another charge, however, and one that my prove more serious is that he has signed certain orders payable to himself without the order of Court and which as Judge Hill says, although the de facto irregular he is loath to believe that he intended anything criminal in the matter and will so explain to the grand jury, in justice to himself and in the interest of the county and under the circumstances he was compelled to issue the following order, at the instance of County Clerk Jones because as he says, irregularities cannot be permitted.
Mr. Bodley, seeing the report in yesterday's Enquirer, made post haste for Newport and received his first information when he arrived that the had been relieved from office, and that his successor had been appointed.
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Cincinnati Enquirer, 5 September 1894, page 2
Some four months ago a committee consisting of County Judge Hill,
George F Truesdell, Edgar Thatcher and Jule Plummer was appointed to examine
into the accounts of John Bodley, the Deputy County Clerk at Alexandria, who had
been deposed by County Clerk Jones.
He was accused at the time of being short in his accounts and yesterday the committee made the following report to the County Court at Alexandria:
"We, T M Hill, County Judge and George F Truesdell, Jule Plummer and Edgar Thatcher, committee appointed to examine the accounts of John H Bodley, Deputy County Clerk at Alexandria, and after making due examination of same, that they are correct."
This will be pleasing news to John's legion of friends.