Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1913 — FORGER SENTENCED ON PLEA OF GUILTY [ARTICLE]

FORGER SENTENCED ON PLEA OF GUILTY

Reuben Blackmore Admits Forgeries and is Sentenced to Serve From 2 to 14 Years.

Reuben Blackmore, the man who passed forged checks last week at Morrow’s grocery and B. F. Fendig’s drug store, and who is evidently the same person who had previously successfully evaded detection after cashing forged checks about town, entered a plea of guilty when arraigned before Judge Hanley this Tuesday morning and ha. was sentenced to serve an indeterminate sentence of from 2 to 14 years in the reformatory at, Jeffersonville, to which place Sheriff Hoover will take him Wednesday. Blackmore is 26 years old, is said to come from a good family, but to have formed bad habits and to have been in trouble at different places during recent years. The success he met here with his forgeries for some time should cause our merchants to require identification or authentication for all checks Cashed.