Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1913 — Homer Smith Again Flirting With Penitentiary. [ARTICLE]

Homer Smith Again Flirting With Penitentiary.

Homer Smith, formerly of Brook«tnn and for some years a life Insurance agent, Is again in bad and now stands a chance of landing behind the prison bars. Smith is tolerably well known In Rensselaer, having written considerable business here some years ago. On his last visit here he was called out of The Republican office and given a thrashing by A. C. Robinson, whom he had defrauded. Recently Smith has been in Indianapolis, where he represented himself to be an agent for the National Life Insurance Oo„ of lowa, and he Is said tohave written policies aggregating $21,000 and to have collected premiums amounting to S4OO or SSOO. He was not an authorized agent and did not procure the policies or turn any money over to the company, according to the charge. He Was arrested at Gas City and taken to Indianapolis, where he pleaded guilty to the charge. He had little money with him and'it could not be ascertained what disposition he had made of the money.