Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 275, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1919 — FILES SUIT FOR RECOVERY OF TEN THOUSAND. [ARTICLE]

FILES SUIT FOR RECOVERY OF TEN THOUSAND.

Logansport, Ind., Nov, 13, —John • Koster, a retired farmer of Francesville, and one of the victims in the fdke prize fight swindles, has filet suit in the White county courts Against Mayor Rollin Bunch ant Prosecuting Attorney Horace C. Murphy, of Muncie, and twenty-one other defendants, to recover SIO,OOO he claims to have lost on one of the fake fights which was pulled off in Logansport. AU of the defendants named in the suit are men who were this week convicted or plead guilty in the federal court at Indianapolis before Judge Anderson. The suit was filed by Attorney Albert T. Jenkins of this city in White county because of that being the home of. Marion T. Jacks, of Monon, whom it is alleged was instrumental in inducing the plaintiff to come to Logansport on the night the fake fight was pulled off, and who introduced Koster to the members of the gang here. Koster alleges that he wagered SIO,OOO on the result of the fight and lost, being hurried out of town on the assurance that one of the principals in the fight was probably fatally injured and a “quick getaway” was necessary to avoid trouble with the police. The fight was staged in an upstairs room on Third street, within two blocks of the police station, on the night of March 30, 1918.