Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1911 — CHARGED WITH OBTAINING MONEY BY BAD CHECKS. [ARTICLE]

CHARGED WITH OBTAINING MONEY BY BAD CHECKS.

Fr*ak O’Donnell Said to Have Defrauded Roselawn Merchants Who Cashed His Cheeks. There was quite a little excitement at Roselawn and Wheatfield Wednesday. A young man named Frank O’Donnell, who had been working on a dredge, was charged with having cashed personal checks to the amount of $27.50 with Roselawn merchants. They were written on the Bank of Wheatfleld, and when the gentlemen communicated with that bank they are said to have been informed that O’Donnell had “no funds” therein. The merchants were J. W. Crooks, J. J. Mulder, C. M. Rice and D. J.,Frye. They at once got busy and sent a telegram to the chief of police at Bloomington, Ind., in time to intercept the young man, and he was pulled off the train and lodged in jail at that place. He was on his way to the home of his sweetheart near Paoli, where he was to have been married. He claimed to the officers that he had a deposit of S2B in4he Wheatfleld bank and that his arrest was a mistake. O’Donnell stated that his home was In Michigan and .that he had been working on a dredge near Wheatfield since last fall. -

The Republican called Alex. Jensen, cashier of the Bank of Wheatfleld, shortly before noon Thursday and was informed that the matter had been all straigtened up. O’Donnell had given 1128 to another young man to deposit for him and he had neglected to do so. He fixed the matter at once and O’Donnell was released from the Bloomington jail and presumably went on to Paoli to get married.