Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1907 — CHARGED WITH FRAUD [ARTICLE]

CHARGED WITH FRAUD

Promoter r of a Land Company Alleged to Have a Lot of Tainted Money. ITS OWNERS WANT IT BACK His Present Possession Causing the Taint-r Legislative Notes—Evansville Has an Old Scar®. Indianapolis, Jan. 17. George F. Mull, an attorney, has been appointed receiver of the “1904 Georgia Colony company,” an Investment scheme operated by Philander H. Fitzgerald. The petition for a receiver told In detail Fitzgerald’s plan to found a colony in Georgia and to give valuable pieces of property to all his stockholders. the size and quality of the land depending on the amount of stock subscribed. In this way, the plaintiffs allege, $70,000 came into Y'itzgerald's hands, and that only $20,000 was spent in improving the property. Want Him Kept in the State. The petitioners declare that the remainder of the money Fitzgerald has in his possession, and that he is guilty of fraud and misrepresentation. Besides asking for a receiver and judgment against Fitzgerald the plaintiffs ask that Fitzgerald be restrained from leaving the state until the case is settled. Fitzgerald was indicted by the federal grand jury some time ago for using the mails to defraud. The indictment was in connection with the colony company. Sleet Storip Gives Much Trouble. Indianapolis, Jan. 17. Telegraphic communication has been seriously interfered with in Indiana and southern Illinois on account of a heavy sleet storm. Wires burdened with snow and ice went to the ground, shutting off communication for both telegraph and telephone companies. Forces of men have been at work all day repairing the breaks.

Legislative Doings. Indianapolis, Jan. 17.—1 n the senate a joint resolution was introduced authorizing Purdue university to accept as gifts three medical colleges and conduct a medical school in Indianapolis; also a bill setting a date for the election of delegates to a constitutional convention, and one making wife or child deserter a felony. In the house a bill was introduced to give the attorney general power to initiate actions against trusts and corporations and to grant immunity to witnesses who furnish evidence, and one to require all lobbyists to register.

SCARED THAT WAY BEFORE Evansville Apprehensive That She Will Be Left Out in the Country by the Ohio. Evansville, Ind., Jan. 17.—The Ohio river has risen to the stage of forty feet, and the river has eut a channel across the big horseshoe bend between here and Henderson, and is flawing through there now at a tremendous rate, leaving the water in the harbor here as quiet as a lake. The city confronts the serious danger of being left five miles from the Ohio river. The city's fate as a future harbor depends on how long the river stays up. If higher water comes In such volume as to increase the flow across the point in the new channel then Evansville may be left high and dry sitting on the old river bed. The place where the current starts across toward Henderson, Ky., is above Evansville, the river between that place and Henderson bending in the form of a “U” with Evansville In the upper part of the bend. The scare about the river cutting a new channel Is a semi-oc-casional one —happens every few years when the river Is high.

Couldn't Marry a Lunatic. Marlon. Ind., Jan. 17.—James Tibbetts and Mary Ann West were refused a marriage license, Judge Paulus noting on the application that Tibbetts was not of sound mind, and therefore Ineligible to marry under the state law. The bride-elect gave her age as 39, recently from Indianapolis, and never married. Brazilian Murdered at St. Louis. Brazil, Ind,. Jan. 17. —A dispatch from St. Louis says that a man believed to he George It. Adams, of Brazil, Ind., was taken from a Market street saloon to the city hospital there, suffering from poison, and died in an hour later. It Is believed that he was given chlorol hydrate “knock-out drops."