Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 288, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1915 — V. J. CRISLER & CO. ARE EXHONERATED [ARTICLE]

V. J. CRISLER & CO. ARE EXHONERATED

Cases Against Them In Chicago DisMissed and Young Women Sign Statement Clearing Them. The cases in Cook county, 111., against V. J. Crisler and John A. Dunlap, which resulted in requisitions being signed by Governor Dunne for thefr return to that State on a charge of conducting a confidence game, were recently dismissed on the Chicago. court'and Messrs. Crisler and Dunlap, who wero for some time partners under the name of V. JT. Crisler & Co., are not only entirely free but are exhoncrated from any crimiin'al intent in the sale of the Springer lands, and the following statement to Attorney W. H. Parkinson, who with Attorney Moses Leopold, appeared in Chicago on behalf of the defendants, is from the young women on whose complaint the arrests were made: “W. M- Parkinson, “Renteselaer, Ind. “Dear iSir:— “Replying to your favor of recent date, we desire to say that after going carefully into the transactions between ourselves 'and V. J. Crisler & Co., H. D. Harms and C. M. Lawrence, we are entirely satisfied that they were willing to do what was fair. There was considerable misapprehension of the facts and we find that the misunderstanding wtas caused by the fault of other. s. "Yours very truly, “Carrie G. Gerisert. “Dorothea Howe.” Messrs. Harms and Lawrence, mentioned fn the Statement from the young Indies, are Chicago real estate men who were associated with Vi J. Crisler i& Co. in the pale of land. The many friends of" the local defendants will be glad to know that the Tradident is thus brought to a close and to have thedr confidence in the men reassured by the statement from the young women who were responsible for instituting the proceedings in Chicago.