Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1905 — RODNEY B. SWIFT INDICTED [ARTICLE]

RODNEY B. SWIFT INDICTED

Harvester Company Say* He Robbed It of $30,000 in the Purchase of a Patent. Chicago, July 21.—Rodney B. Swift, who recently made sensational allegations against the International Harvester company In connection with suits commenced by him against that corjioratlou, has been arrested on an indictment found against him by the grand Jury of Marion county, Ind., which charges him with conspiracy. The arrest is the outcome of Swift’s litigation With the harvester company. It Is alleged by the company that Swift bought in Indianapolis a certain patent for the company, paying $45,000 ,and that he then rejiorted that it could not be purchased for less than $75,000. This sum was paid, and It is alleged by the company that Swift and others realized the $30,000 difference. It Is in connection with this transaction that the indictment alleging conspiracy was found.