The Hillsdale Standard

Defaulter Elopement.—Reports have been in circulation for a day or two, derogatory to the conduct and character of the Mr. Harlow Case, the late Collector of the port of Sandusky. The reports were not credited by the old acquaintances of Mr. Case, who regarded him as a high-minded, honorable, and honest man. Sandusky papers of yesterday, however confirm the reports.—the Mirror says:

[Toledo Blade.

Harlow Case is supposed to have fled the country, taking with him the wife of Mr. Francis, Deputy Collector. Mr. Case has a wife and four children. He left Sandusky on the 2d of March with his wife and two younger children for the purpose of moving them to New York City, where an older son resides. Mrs. Francis left for the Granville Water cure about the same time. Mr. Case took his family to New York and left them. He was last heard from at Attica, New York, on the 16th March. Mrs. Francis left the Water cure about that time, and has not been heard of since. A letter to her husband has been found since, we are informed, avowing her purpose of eloping with Case.—She took with her an only child.

The amount of money taken by the absconding Collector, belonging to the government, is not known but supposed to be $19,000 or $20,000. He took the funds avowedly for the purpose of depositing in New York. He told his Deputy he had left $3,000 in the safe; but the key of the safe is gone, and it has not yet been opened, but is presumed to have no money in it. The bail bonds of Case, strangely enough, are only $2,000. They are signed by responsible men.