Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1908 — CIRCULATING PETITION TO HAVE FRED GILMAN PAROLED. [ARTICLE]

CIRCULATING PETITION TO HAVE FRED GILMAN PAROLED.

A petition is being circulated in Goodland and vicinity for the parole of F. D. Gilman, the former Goodland banker, who was sent to the penitentiary at Michigan City last February for embezzlement in taking deposits when his bank was insolvent. The petition is said to be signed very generally, there not being much of any bitter feeling against Fred because he is not believed to have spent the bank’s money in riotous living, or to have personally profited in any way from the failure, but was simply a victim of overconfidence in loaning the funds to those who could not make good when pay day came. Fred was sent up for from one to three years, and it is thought will be let out at the expiration of the minimum term, which expires next week.