Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 288, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1913 — Goshen Grain Dealers Are Indicted by Federal Grand Jury. [ARTICLE]

Goshen Grain Dealers Are Indicted by Federal Grand Jury.

Levi L. and Homer E. Johnson, grain and hay dealers at Goshen, Ind., have been indicted by the federal grand jury at Indianapolis for alleged violations of the postal laws. The men weifc to Indianapolis Tuesday and surrendered and were released on bail. Just what the methods employed were in not told in the newspapers, but the alleged violation is against postal regulations and they are said to have purchased and sold grain by mail, doing business over a number of states, in which the postal Inspectors have been making investigations for some time. They are said to have defrauded those from whom they purchased and those to whom they sold. The men have been in the grain business at Goshen for 25 years and a number of law suits have been started against them at Goshen.