Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1910 — TO SETTLE FRAUD SUITS [ARTICLE]

TO SETTLE FRAUD SUITS

Illinois Central Has Promise of Cash Settlements. Names of Persons Who Are Alleged to Have Padded Bills for Work Never Performed. Chicago, July B.—Cash of the remaining alleged fraud suits against Illinois Central Car Repairs company for sums aggregating >1.500,000 has been promised One of the eases in which the Blue Island Rolling Mill company was made defendant, was compromised and a sum amounting to nearly >600,000 is said to have been paid over to the Illinois Central The suit was dismissed by Judge Windes. Bills against the Illinois Central for the repair of 5,964 cars between September, 1907, and December, 1900.

amounted to $1,460,309. It is alleged in the suits against the repair companies, that F. H. Niles and Henry C. Osterman in collusion with Joseph F. Buker, 0. S. Keith, Wiliam Renshaw and J. M. Taylor, padded the.bills by inserting items for work never dona, A conspiracy was charged.