Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 1908 — MANY REMINGTON PEOPLE HERE [ARTICLE]

MANY REMINGTON PEOPLE HERE

SummonqdJßefore the Grand Jury On ijwker Bank Matters. SomM 30 or 35 Remington people - were before the grand jury Tuesday and Wednesday, supposedly on the Parker bank failure matter. Many people over there who lost money in Mr. Parker’s bank have thought that the bonds in the three indictments under which he was at liberty was too trifling a sum, and that he might take it Into his head to skip out. While there is no likelihood of anything of this kind, yet rumors have been In circulation in Remington that he had skipped to Australia and even the name of some, one whom it was alleged had seen him in New York when he was about to sail, were given. Of course there was nothing in

this at all. It would do him very little good to try to get away, for he would likely soon be apprehended, and it is scarcely probable that the thought, has ever entered Mr. Parker's head, to do him justice. But it seemed to be thought there that heavier bonds should be given and this feeling, we understand, is the caufce of again taking up the matter. The bonds in the three old indictments were SSOO in each case, $1,500 in all, and if he is tried and found guilty in either of these it is not likely that the others will ever be pushed, but will be dismissed after a year or so. as they were In the McCoy and Gilman cases. If six or seven of the indictments returned by the grand jury this week are against him it will Increase the bonds to several thousand dollars, if the amount is the same as. under the ones returned some time ago. Following are the names of'most of the Remington people here Tuesday and Wednesday, most of whom were before the grand jury: M. A. Gray, I. D. Luckey, Chris. Rousch, Wm. Hallihan, Wm. Townsend, C. A. Balcom, Chas. Bonner, W. L. Gumm, C. H. Peck, F. L. Peck, Fred Griffin, C. T. Dye, Ezra Whitehead, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Eller, W. H. Cheadle (the trustee in bankruptcy), Dennis O’Reilly, C. T. Denham, Wm. R. Geier, Dennis O’Connor, W. C. Merritt, Walter HicksA Jasper Guy, John Farabar, A. J. Brooks, J. J. Porter.