Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 242, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1918 — FORMER STARKE AUDITOR IS HELR FOR PERJURY [ARTICLE]

FORMER STARKE AUDITOR IS HELR FOR PERJURY

Lee M. Ransbottom, former auditor of Starke county, was arrested at Hallock, Minn., and taken to Crawfordsville, where he is being held on a charge of perjury. Ransbottom is to have sold ten gravel road bonds to Grace B. Law, of Crawfordsville, on November 15, 1916, for $5,000, which afterwards are said to have proved worthless. Ransbottom had been in Minnesota about two years, and is said to have gone under the name of Leo Randolph. It is alsa said that Ransbottom is wanted by the federal authbrities on a charge of perjury filed in the federal court at Indianapolis, it being alleged that he swindled the Dime Savings bank, of Toledo, Ohio, out of $6,000. The sheriff .also received word that Ransbottom is alleged to have swindled a woman in Starke county out of about $5,000 in the same manner in which he is said to have obtained the money from Mrs Law at Crawfordsville.