Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1917 — Kellog Has Served Time For Crookedness. [ARTICLE]

Kellog Has Served Time For Crookedness.

Monticello Journal. Ulysses B. Kellogg, who is held to the circuit court here on the charge of criminal assault on his ten year old niece, Mabel Cochran, has already served a prison term on a charge of fraudulent activities with regard to a land deal/according to the Lafayette Journal. Kellogg swindled a number of Lafayette people about ten years ago by representing that he was agent for the Northwestern Land and Impiigration Company and had elaborate maps made of alleged land near Alberta, Can. He offered to take his victims to Canada for S6O each for Hie purpose of inspecting the land. It was alleged that he obtained SB,OOO by this scheme. He claimed to have a real estate ofitee at St. Paul Minn., but investigation failed to locate the company. He was. tried in the Tippecanoe circuit court and was given a sentence of from 1 to 14 years in the state prison.