Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1908 — JOHN C- FARBER DEAD. [ARTICLE]

JOHN C- FARBER DEAD.

Judge Who Sat In the McCoy Case Dies At His Home In Frankfort. State Senator John C. Farber died at his home in Frankfort last Monday after a ten days illness from liver and kidney trouble, aged 55 years. Mr. Farber was known, by name at least, to many of our people by reason of his having sat as special judge in the long-winded McCoy embezzlement case at Monticello, wherein “Tom” McCoy, former republican politician, all-around sport and banker of Rensselaer, was convicted and is now serving a term of one to three years in the penitentiary at Michigan City. Mr. Farber thought the penalty for embezzlement, such as that of the McCoys, was too little punishment, and introduced in the legislature, to which he was elected in 1904, the present amendment to said law, which fixes the penalty at from two to fourteen years instead of one to three, as formerly. At the time of his death he was a candidate for the nomination for Judge in Clinton county before the republican convention.