Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1910 — RAWN BRANDED AS GRAFTER [ARTICLE]

RAWN BRANDED AS GRAFTER

H. O. Ostermann Given Details in I. C. Graft Trial.

Chicago, Sept. 30.—Henry C. Ostermann, who is giving the municipal court the details of the way In which Illinois Central officials held up his corporation for $1,550,000 admitted that he was promised immunity. “Why those men held me up just as strong as they did the company,” he said. “Ira G- Rawn. vice president, first asked through Joseph Bucfeer, $5 a car, then $lO and $15,0n every car I repaired Besides I paid him SI,OOO a month and 26 cents a month on 2,700 shares gt