Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 186, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1919 — LOCAL MAN BRINGS SUIT AGAINST WARREN McCRAY. [ARTICLE]

LOCAL MAN BRINGS SUIT AGAINST WARREN McCRAY.

Kentland, Ind., Aug. 7.—Warren T. McCray, prospective candidate for the republican nomination for governor, was made defendant in a sensational suit to quiet title brought in (the Newton county circuit court here. Herman Messman, a farmer, is the plaintiff and alleges fraud, conspiracy, and gambling with Messman’s money on the Chicago Board of Trade. The complaint, which covers eight typewritten pages, was filed by W. H. Parkinson, of Lafayette, and H. L. Sammons, of Kentland, attorneys. It alleges that through certain manipulations, McCray obtained a title to 258 acres of land owned by the plaintiff. The most serious charge contained in the complaint is that the plaintiff, who avers he cannot' read', went to McCray to borrow $5,000 with which to make a payment on a farm in Jasper county; that McCray had the plaintiff and his wife, Anna Messman, sign four notes and a mortgage which, it is averred, the plaintiff believed were for the $5,000, but which have since developed to be one note for $4,870.10 and the other for $4,195.94. -