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The Fletcher & Sharpe Funds. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: As one of the depositors in Fletcher & Sharpe's bank, I believe I voice the sentiment of hundreds of those who likewise are anxious about their money. in saying that we feel more uncertain now than ever about realizing anything. Further, we are not all lawyers, and would like some one to explain how it is that Mr. Wm. W. Wallace and Mr. Milligan, as receivers of Fletcher & Sharpe, and of S. A. Fletcher, each had to give a very large bond before they got any of the money, and after they got the money, they turn it over to the county clerk, a man who gives an insignificant bond of equivocal character. We understand that the county clerk gives but $25,000 bond, and holds over $90,000 of our money, besides many thousands outside of the Fletcher & Sharpe deposit, including the assets of the Ritzinger bank. We gather from the papers that he isFirst-Under indictment as a criminal. Second-That he is charged with being a dishonest dealer by the reports of the legislative committees inyestigating the Hospital for the Insane. Third-That be is a man without a memory, as shown by his own testimony. Fourth-That he is a man with cheek enough to compel the trustees of the Insane Hospital to not only take bad butter when they said they wouldn't, but to make the bill big and compel its payment. Fifth-That his being the employer of all the clerks, and custodians having charge of all the court records, and the direct or indirect selecter of all the juries, from the grand jury down, he defies any court procedure, or any judge, or anybody else. Now, with all this, Mr. Editor, before us, what chance is there for safety of the funds? DEPOSITOR. INDIANAPOLIS, June 24.