Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1910 — WALTER BROWN IS FREE. [ARTICLE]

WALTER BROWN IS FREE.

Former Republican Chairman Released From Federal Prison. Walter Brown, former republican chairman of the 13th Indiana cdngressiOnal district, was released from the federal penitentiary at Ft. Leavenworth, Kan/, Monday at the expiration of a six year sentence for connection with wrecking the First National Bank of Elkhart. J' L. Broderick, president of

the bank, and W. L. Collins, cashier were sentenced at the same time. Collins was released some months ago. Broderick, who received a ten-year sen"tence, will finish his term next December. Brown, in a signed statement to the newspapers, says that he was not legally nor morally guilty of the charge for which he was convicted, and that political and financial enemies were responsible for his dowtnfall.