Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 August 1909 — COLLEGE PROFESSOR IN JAIL [ARTICLE]

COLLEGE PROFESSOR IN JAIL

Charged With Sending Out Fake Advertisements In the Mails. Topeka, Kan., Aug. 13.—L. C. Miege, an assistant professor of French at the University of Kansas, is in jail here, charged by the federal authorities with misuse of the malls. He is charged with advertising a fake teacher’s agency in Mexican newspapers saying he could secure positions for teachers of Spanish in the United States and requiring a payment of $5 as a pledge of good faith.