Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1906 — KELLOGG ACQUITTED. [ARTICLE]

KELLOGG ACQUITTED.

The trial of U. B. Kellogg, the Brookston man who is believed to have swindled many people at varions points on a Canadian land deal, ended at Bloomington Tuesday in acquittal, after occcupying six days in court. The jury was out but a few moments, and the verdict was a surprise, as it was generally believed the State had made a good case against him, having proved by expert witnesses that the signatures to all the correspondence of the “company” which Kellogg claimed to represent were hie own hand-writing. A sensational feature of the case was the arrest of Prof. G. W. Michaels of Lafayette, formerly of Rensselaer, on the charge of intimidating the defense’s witnesses. The case against him was later dismissed, /•however. Kellogg was re-arrested on charges made by Prof. Michaels of Lafayette, and is now in jail there. He will be tried Monday.