Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 April 1903 — JOHN F. JUDY ARRESTED. [ARTICLE]

JOHN F. JUDY ARRESTED.

IgA Lafayette dispatch to Tues4ky’a Indianapolis Sentinel says: t|phn F. Judy, publisher of the Chill, one of Lafayette’s republican dailies, a financier of wide repqjption, inventor of the Judy system and founder of Judyville, Iras arrested on three charges fore today and is now awaiting trial on $2,500 bond. | Friday the grand jury returned three indictments against Judy, twe of them associating his name with that of Sam P. Hunter. £udy is charged with grand laroeny; is charged with Hunter with conspiracy, and is accused with Hunter of grand larceny for another*crime. The indictments •re the outgrowth of the robbery of the Goddard livery stable at Clark’s Hill last May. Hunter, who claims he was acting as Judy’s agent, went to Orson T. Goddard And offered to bay his livery stable. Hunter did not have ready money, mortgthe livery outfit iji Godname. Soon after the Ir of the stock the livery disappeared. The outfit umjer the direction of Hnnter, traveled to Grant county. A week later it appeared at Paris, 111., and there it was advertised for sale. The stock, horses, harness, baggies and all, sold for •boat SI,OOO. It had been valued at $1,200. Goddard caused the arrest of Hnnter. He was tried, convicted and sentenced to the penitentiary for grand larceny. A motion for a new trial was promptly overruled by Judge DeHart. A supplemental motion was filed and it was sustained. Hnnter being again let out on bond. He is now awaiting his second trial.

During the hearing of the evidence in support of the motion for a new trial an affidavit made Voluntarily by Samuel P. Hunter to the grand jury was introduced. The affidavit charged that John F. Judy had engineered the scheme, laid the plot, and reaped the reward. As a result of that affidavit tbe indictments were returned. An indictment charging Judy and Hnnter with stealing a horse valued at SIOO frdtb Andrew D. Hanger was also returned. John F. Judy came to Lafayette a few years ago from Williamsport, in Warren county, near which place be had established the town of Judyville. His forte was in lending 'money. He wonld mortgage the chattels of the person who wished to borrow, and on the first failure to pay at the appointed time he wonld send his lieutenants to the home, take a horse, a cow or anything which he considered satisfaction for his claims. He employed goad attorneys and had a band of followers.

Three years ago Judy purchased the Lafayette underwear factory. When a-new bank started np John F. Judy’s name was prominently mentioned. He invested in several other local enterprises. Two years ago the Call changed proprietors. John F. Judy became publisher. It has been one of tbe most stalwart republican papers in northern Indiana, and frequently strong republican editorials above the signature of Jody have appeared. When a team of horses, upon which Jody had a mortgage, disaapeared from its barn, the Call was the first to proclaim, in glaring headlines, that horse-thieves were extant and that they had gotten away with a team of horses. Associated with Jndy in tbe editing and publishing of the Call areO. T. and Fred R. Letcher, the latter being a son-in-law of Jndy.