Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 86, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1920 — CONFESSES HE BURNED HOUSE FOR INSURANCE [ARTICLE]

CONFESSES HE BURNED HOUSE FOR INSURANCE

Lafayette, Ind., April 7.—Paul Rector, who formerly lived at Reynolds, a teacher in the high school at Montmorenci, Tippecanoe county, Attica and Reynolds, has signed a confession at the state fire marshal’s office at Indianapolis it is announced by authorities here, that he set fire to a house at Reynolds, which he is said to have had insured a short time before. Rector is alleged to have collected >BOO insurance after the fire. Rector deposited a draft for 3800 in the Lafayette Loan and Trust Company, and checked against it. Later the money he drew out in checks was made good to the banK. Rector then deposited the draft mi the West Lafayette State Bank, and again checked against it, the officials announce. An opportunity has been given Rector and his father to pay back the money drawn on .the draft by April 15, with the understanding that lenity will be asked when the case comes up in court, it tne money is paid, it is added. Rector is a member of a widely known family at Reynolds. He has been in trouble several times before.