Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 264, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1911 — SPECIAL JUDGE SET DEED ASIDE—LOOKS LIKE FRAUD. [ARTICLE]

SPECIAL JUDGE SET DEED ASIDE—LOOKS LIKE FRAUD.

Ray Camming? Charged With Selling Ward’s Farm Worth 93,000 For $1,200 —New Guardian Won Salt - The Review telle an interesting story in which are combined sufficient minor plots to form the foundation of a good novel. The death of a respectable and well-to-do foreign farmer near Roselawn, the unfaithful guardian of the man’s daughter who sought to sell the farm for $1,200 when it was worth almost three times that much, and the prompt discharge of the guardian by the court and the appointment of a new guardian who brought suit and set aside the deed and saved the flarm for the heir, are features of the narrative. Hans Jensen, of Roselawn, died, leaving among other things a farm of 80 acres near Roselawn. He had one daughter, Clara, a minor. William Cummings, for many years a highly respected citizen *of that town, was appointed her guardian. He died and his son Ray Cummings, a young lawyer, was appointed lin his father’s stead

Ray sold the farm near Roselawn to Bernard Gillespie for $1,200 and Gillespie sold it to a Chicago man named Evans. Jensen had be'en a Mason and some of his Masonic brothers are said to have realized that the farm sold far below its proper value. They got together and expressed their beliefs that the ward of young Cummings was being defrauded. They said the land was worth from $3,000 to $4,000 and that some place along the line there was a big graft They told Judge Hanley, who removed Cummings from the guardianship and appointed William Darroch. The guardian’s deed had been made and the farm sold again, but Mr. Darroch became thoroughly convinced that the deal was not honest and he fought it out in the Newton circuit court last week before Special Judge Wasson Who set aside the deed and thus saved the farm to the young heir. The best people of Roselawn went to Kentland and testified in behalf of the girl, to the effect that the land was worth at least S4O per acre. If young Cummings’ part in transaction was as had as it looks to be, there would seem to be good grounds for legal disbarment proceedings against* him practicing as an attorney in Indiana.