Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1906 — KELLOGG TRIAL TO START MONDAY. [ARTICLE]

KELLOGG TRIAL TO START MONDAY.

U. B. Kellogg, the alleged Canadian land swindler who caught some two score of Rensselaer peopie in his net, will be plaoed on trial in the Tippecanoe circuit court next Monday to answer to the charge of swindling Lafayette people on his Canadian land scheme. Prof. Geo. W. Michaels of Lafayette, formerly of Rensselaer, who was caught for several hundred dollars in Kellogg’s scheme, is the principal pusher in the prosecution, although there are seven indictments against Kellogg there. It has been decided to try him on an indictment fur swindling some farmer near Lafayette on the same proposition. Kellogg has been in jail since last May.