Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1915 — Wife’s Plea Saves Former Pastor From Penitentiary. [ARTICLE]

Wife’s Plea Saves Former Pastor From Penitentiary.

John Paris Cox, a fomer Methodist minister, who has led a checkered career, was recently arrested at Carmel, Ind., charged with having committed forgeries aggregating |1,500. Cox was at one time pastor of the M. E. church at North Judson, later he became an evangelist in Minnesota and later an insurance agent at South Bend, where his trouble increased. He is charged with having signed the name of his father-in-law to the bond he furnished the insurance companies and also to have forged checks on which he procured money. He was in jail at South Bend, unable to give bond, but his wife and children pleaded for his release on the ground would starve if they did not have him to provide for them. He was released, but there is considerable indignation because of the action and he may be returned to jail to await his trial.