Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 107, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1913 — FRANCESVILLE REAL ESTATE NAN ARRESTED [ARTICLE]

FRANCESVILLE REAL ESTATE NAN ARRESTED

Charged With Complicity ip Alleged Fraudulent TransactionTaken to Chicago. W. C. Myers, a Francesville man, is charged with complicity with the principals, Joseph L. -Snyder and Samuel F. Hall, of Lafayette, in an alleged fraudulent land deal, by which Leonard A. Busby, president of the City Railway Co., of Chicago, elaims to have been defrauded out of his $25,000 residence in Evanston. According to Busby he had desired to trade his property for Illinois or Indiana land. Myers and Snyder showed him a farm in Pulaski county, about three miles east of Francesville. It suited Busby and the trade was made. The farm was priced at $165 per acre. He asserts that he later discovered that it was worth only SSO per acre. Busby says that he turned over the deed to the Evanston house and Myers and Snyder found Hall as a purchaser so» the farm and the farm was ostensibly turned over to Hall, who was to pay $25,000 in cash to Busby, but Busby got no money and was out both the farm and the Evanston property. Myers and Snyder had the deed to the residence and Hall to the farm. He had the men indicted in Chicago and requisition papers were signed by Governor Dunne, of Illinois, and Governor Ralston, of Indiana, and the men were -arrested at Lafayette and taken to Chicago. The men were released after reaching Chicago and providing for bond and report the arrest a big “joke,” and say that Busby has no chance of making a case against them stick. From their talk, they are very much unconcerned about the matter. They do not say that Busby did not get a trimming, but indicate thatit was only scaserof the "other fellows getting it.”