Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 263, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1915 — Helsel Girl Got the Money From Finlander. [ARTICLE]

Helsel Girl Got the Money From Finlander.

Although Leona Helsel, the Virgie girl who has been making frequent trips to this city for several months, claimed that she had not taken the money from Erik. Lindstram, the Finlander who was working for Marshall Johnson on the old Joe Gains farm, her father, Albert Helsel, found that she had part of the money and he secured about 375 of it and placed it on deposit in a Rensselaer bank and it will be returned to the owner. The girl claims that she destroyed part of the money, which was of Finnish issue, but a search is being made at Chicago Heights, where the girl had been and where it is thought she may have converted it into U. S. money. The girl’s decision to waive preliminary hearing came about after her father found the money she had stolen. The Helsel girl is a granddaughted of Joe Gains and a niece of •Marshall Johnson. A term in' the woman’s prison probably awaits her.