Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 227, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1911 — WINNER WAS A SKINNER; JURY QUICK TO SEE IT. [ARTICLE]

WINNER WAS A SKINNER; JURY QUICK TO SEE IT.

The showed quite conclusively that the automobile deal was a fraud' and that the Bank of Southern Illinois was to some extent familiar with the business methods of the “Winner Manufacturing Co.’’ The defendants to the Action were not present, but were represented by Attorney George A. Williams, while Mr. Kresel was represented by Attorneys Parkinson and Dunlap. A deposition of the defendant was redd and was quite conclusive that there was a connection between the Southern Illinois bank and the company that sold the automobile. It showed that there really was no “Winner Manufacturing C 0.,” but that that institution whs entirely etherial. The cashier of the Southern Illinois Bank had endorsed the “Winner Manufacturing Co.” very highly in a circular advertising the Winner automobile, but under oath he testified that there was really no such company to bii knowledge, but that the Century Manufacturing Co. occasionally had some credits in the bank from sales made by the so-called Wlinner company. It was shown that the Century company did not manufacture anything itself, but conducted a mail order business, that its offices are in the same block with the bank

and that the president of the bank owned the building in which the Ceiitury offices were located and seemed to have other connections with the company. : f • > It was shown that the automobile was represented in circular to be a real winner, guaranteed first class in every particular. It was shipped from bill of lading which was attached to the draft on Mr. Kresel came from St. Louis. The Southern Illinois bank had credited the Century company’s bank account with $255 thd'same time the draft was made. The caßhler of the bank said that the bank would look to the Century compafty to make good the $255 in case the court sustained the plaintiff In the suit brought here. ..

The prompt attachment of the money collected through the Rensselaer First National after Mr. Kresel discovered that he had been ddped was all that saved for him the $255. The jury quickly saw through the fraud scheme and were not lqpg in arriving at a decision in favor of Mr. Kresel. The money will now be returned to the plaintiff, but tbe litigation will probably cost liim a considerable part of it. He is also out the $l5O which he sept to the company when the car was ordered. f The clear evidence of fraud on the part of the Century Manufacturing Co., which used the name “Winner Manufacturing G 0.,” entirely for the purpose of deciet, would seem to warrant some Investigation by the federal authorities. ' The transaction should serve to make people who do business with mail order houseß a great deal more cautious and they will generally find out that better values can be procured through local dealers in whatever they handle.

The Marion Chronicle says: “It seems that the killing of the seven-year-old ' girl at Madison, Wis., was another saloon victory. The fiend who did the job had been drunk for two months. He got up at night with a crazy thirst for' another drink. Ha had no notion at the time of harming the child or hSr family, but moved, as he says, by ‘a devilish impulse’— the result undoubtedly of tbe crazed condition produced by intoxicants sold under tbe protection of tbe progressive State Of Wisconsin —he took the child from her bed, pounded her to death and threw the little body into a lake. When one contemplates the things that happen as the result of the liquor traffic it is easy to understand why some people want saloons to help the cause along/* Ellis Theatre, Our Stock Co. in Hearts of the Blue Ridge, Saturday, Sept. 30. | ■; ' ’■.. V Our Stock Co. Saturday, Sept 80.