Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1907 — JOHN F. JUDY AGAIN IN TROUBLE [ARTICLE]

JOHN F. JUDY AGAIN IN TROUBLE

Accused of Fradulent Land Deal By An Old Quaker Couple. Lafayette, Ins., June 28. Sensational charges of conspiracy and fraud form the basis of a suit tiled here to-day by William P. and Elizabeth Jester, an aged Quaker couple of West Lafayette, against John F. Judy, a millionare capitalist, for whom the town of Judyville, 12 miles west of here, is named, and who is one of the heaviest land owners in Central Indiana. In the complaint Judy is alleged to have swindled the plaintiffs out of a $15,000 farm and all their other earthly possessions and left them practically penniless, with only a forged abstract and fraudulent;deed to show for their transactions with him. Mr. and Mrs. Jester owned a farm of 117 acres in Wabash Township, valued at about sls,* 000. Last November, the complaint avers, Judy offered to trade them 600 acres in'Starke County for the farm. He took Jester to the Starke County land, showed him one part of it, and said the remainder was like the sample seen. According to the complaint, after the trade was made and Jester had executed a $5,000 mortgage on the place to Judy as a balance, he found that only two acres of the farm were good land, the remainder being quicksand. Then, Jester alleges, Judy hired a confederate to approaoh Jester' and offer to trade him a title 400 acres of Georgia land for the’ Starke County" farm. Anxious to get rid of the Starke County farm, Jester accepted, Judy appearing in guise of a friend to help Jester

get rid of the 600-acre farmland telling him thedeed to the Georgia land was good and the land valuable. Jester traded again, and this time he found that he had only a forged abstract and a fraudulent deed to land in Clinch County, Georgia. He alleges that he went to Judy again, and the defendant tried to persuade him to catch some other victim with the bogus deed. Jester asks judgment in the sum of SB,OOO and the cancellation of “all notes signed by him and given to the defendant. .