Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1905 — FORGER ARRESTED [ARTICLE]

FORGER ARRESTED

Young Han Signs A. Leopold’s Name To Check. SENTENCED TO THE REFORMATORY On Plea of Guilty, But Sentence Suspended During Good Behavior. —Other Court Notes. A young man about twenty years of age, who had been about here for several days presented a check for SSO at the First National Bank Wednesday morning purporting to have been given by A. Leopold, to Chester Vincent. Cashier Hollingsworth saw at once that the check was a bungling forgery and refused to cash it. The young man left the bank and Mr. Hollingsworth notified the officers, who soon had the forger in limbo. When arrested he admitted his guilt and said his name was not Vincent, but was Homer L. Clary of Wolcott. He was arraigned before Judge Palmer of Monticello, who was acting as special judge and was sentenced to the reformatory for a period of from two to seven years. Sentence was pronounced within about a half hour after his arrest. The young man has been traveling for the Northwestern Bible House of Chicago, appointing agents. The boy’s father is Joseph Clary, a respected and prosperous citizen of near Wolcott, who wasr here Thursday to see about the trouble his son had got into. The boy says an irresistible tendency to go wrong has come over him of late and he thought a term in the reformatory might do him good. After talking with the father and owing to the boy’s previous good reputation, the court turned him loose under suspended sentence. Evidences of other contemplated raids on banks, by way of forged checks and orders were found on his person. Yellow-backed novels are said to have been the cause of his downfall. —o—

The jury has tried but one case as yet. that being the Iliff et al road case from Jordan tp., so many changes of venue and continuing of cases having been taken that there has been no work for it. In the Jordan tp., case the jury’returned a verdict establishing the highway to a width of 60 feet and assessing damages to landowners affeetd as follows: Wm. Waihburn 75 00 F. M. Weigh 100 00 George M. Meyers 275 00 Henry Welsh 175 00 Louis Simonin 200 00 EleanorM. Adams l26 00 George Hensler 100 00 A. C. Scott 100 00 T0ta1.....’ . „51,100 00 It is rumored that the remonstrators are not satisfied with the verdict, and an appeal to the higher court may be taken. The matter, unless an appeal is taken, will now go back to the bourd of commissioners, who, it is alleged, have the power to place the damages on the county and pay it out of the county treasury. A peculiar thing thing about this case is that the president of the board of commissioners, before whom the matter came for action in the first place, and to whom it now goes for further action, was attorney for the petitioners. The John Mohler vs. Henry Amsler case was set for trial yesterday, and the Moffitt ditch mandate case is set for Monday. Emmet L. Hollingsworth vs. Martha E. Stoner et al: defendant defaults and judgment for $4,236.94, and mortgage foreclosed, in favor of plaintiff. J. M. Wasson appointed receiver. I Samuel Fendig vs. Hugh L. Gamble: judgment for plaintiff in sum of $35.04. The Williams vs. Amerman damage case from Newton county was to have been tried Wednesday, but plaintiff failed to put in appearance and the case was dismissed at his costa. Judge Palmer was here from Monticello as special judge to try this case. The case of W. L. Lewis vs. Myrt B. Price, the Iroquoia ditch case, is returnable next Tuesday.