Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1906 — JURY ACQUITS MOWER. [ARTICLE]

JURY ACQUITS MOWER.

Cashier of Defunct Fanners’ Bank at Wolcott Found Not Oullty. After twenty-four hoars retirement, the jury in the case of Frank A. Mower, accused of embezzling funds deposited in the defunct Farmers’ Bank of Wolcott, in January, 1905, returned a verdict of not guilty, in the White circuit court. The State contended that the defendant was a bona-fide purchaser of the bank, formerly owned by E. W. Settle, whose address is unknown, while the defense pleaded that he was always the cashier, and that, although he received a deed to the bank and an assignment of its assets shortly before Settle disappeared, it was simply to hold them in trust for creditors of the bank. E. B. Sellers assisted in the prosecution. There are still three indictments banging over Mower, which have been continued for trial till the next term. Mower is now in the employ of the American Steel and Wire Company, Chicago.