Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1902 — BAKER’S PECULATIONS. [ARTICLE]

BAKER’S PECULATIONS.

The Democrat learns from Agent C. D. Wellington of the New York Life insurance company, whose head quarters is at Lafayette, that the published reports regarding the forgeries of A. P. Baker who is now serving sentence at Michigan City, were erroneous. Baker made duplicates of the notes he took on insurance, turned the duplicate over to Mr. Wellington, who paid him his commission, and he then sold the original notes. With the single exception of the Wm. Nowels note sold to Heury Hildebrand, Mr. Wellington holds all the forged paper, representing $823, which he must lose, while McCoy’s bank, W. B. Austin and others hold the originnls- Baker’s peculations were much heavier than was generally supposed.