Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 105, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1912 — NEW ELECTRICAL STUNT PERFORMED BY DELKER. [ARTICLE]

NEW ELECTRICAL STUNT PERFORMED BY DELKER.

Dropped la Town, Started Big Business, Dropped Out Leaving Big Bunch of Bad Debts.

Rensselaer people who got off easy last year, seem to be getting “theirs” nowrßay Del me r, who was dubbed by many people here as the “Man of Mystery,” played in the role of thevillain in this little drama. He claimed that his horiae was In Texas, and when he came to Rensselaer several months ago he started working at the electrical trade. His labor was in such demand that it wasn’t long before he / had established a small electrical supply shop, with, the aid of capital borrowed of J. T. Randle, Louis Davisson and Roscoe Nelson. The stock was insured for S6OO with the Ray D. Thompson agency. Davisson and Nelson worked for him most of the time and he seemed to be prospering. Monday morning he told them he had some stock on hand that he could not use and was going to send it back to Chicago. He sent them out to work on an all day’s job and shipped all bat about SSO worth of the stock away while they were gone, leaving empty boxes on the shelves to allay suspicion. Nelson and Davisson did not know

that the stock was gone until Tuesday morning, when they discovered also that Deliaer had left on the early morning train, taking with him all the tools valued at about sls. As nearly as can be ascertained, Delmer got away owing about 9600, and no doubt the money collected from his work amounted to several hundred.

He succeeded in some way or other in gaining the confidence of J-.-T. Randle, of whom he borrowed $230. Me owed Davisson for borrowed m° Re y and labor about SIBO, and Nelson was left holding the bag minus $l5O. Nelson is also sponsor for his sl3 board bill at the Barnes Restaurant, which Delmer had made arrangements with Mr. Barnes to pay. Before leaving Tuesday morning Delmer also borrowed $lO from Mr. Barnes and there are several other small debts outstanding. Why people will lend money unsecured to a complete stranger like that, we canbot understand, but Delmer is gone and the money went with him and no doubt that is the last the victims will, .ever hear of him. It is reported that Delmer returned last nigh on the 11 o’clock train, but Nightwatch Critser met the train and denies that to be the case.