Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 66, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1915 — DUNLAP AND HOWARD CASES DISMISSED [ARTICLE]

DUNLAP AND HOWARD CASES DISMISSED

* Automobile Insurance Agents Not • Prosecuted—Men Left at Once For Homes in Chicago. ’ Dunlap and Howard, the tvJo men ’ who were charged with conspiracy to ' defraud auto owners by representing themselves to be the agents of the Motorists Security Alliance of Chicago, and who were in jail here for I several weeks while awaiting trial, pwere dismissed when the cases were ' called in Kentland Thursday. There . was no evidence to support the charge of conspiracy and a letter which the superintendent of the Motorists Security Alliance had written them here, showed quite conclusively that they were the acknowledged agents of that company, even though they had not complied vith a- requirement to furnish a bond. The men claimed that it had been represented to them that selling membership in this company was just as easy as falling off a log and they came here expecting to do a land-office business. Things came rather slow, however, and when they made an invoice one day they found that they had enough money to get to Chicago if they forgot to pay their board bill and room rent. They accordingly “beat it” and were later arrested in Chicago and brought here. To escape punishment for beating their board bill and room rent they arranged ’with relatives and these bills were said. Whether there was any criminal act in their connection with the insurance proposition or not, the men seemed to be the kind who might not care whether they were on the square or not. Dunlap is probably 55 years of age and Howard 45. They went to Chicago from Kentland and were mighty glad to be free again.