Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1911 — CHARGED WITH FORGERY [ARTICLE]

CHARGED WITH FORGERY

A Young Man From Kankakee Tp., Is Lodged In County Jail. William Brandenburg, aged about 25 years, a bachelor residing upon a farm northeast of Wheatfield some three miles, was landed in jail here Monday, evening on the charge of forgery, he having been bound over to the circuit court by Squire Van Doozer of Wheatfield under bonds of SSOO. We were unable to learn much about the particulars yesterdaybefore going to press, but it seems from what we can learn that a check for S4O was given to A. S. Barlow, the Wheatfield hardware man Saturday in exchange for a gasoline stove, a shovel and a hoe. Barlow, we are told, gave biack some money and a check for sl6 of his own. He later suspected something was w-rong and stopped payment on his own check which had been given to Ray G. Anderson, another merchant, for some goods. Barlow, accompanied by officers w-ent to Brandenberg’s and identified the property bought of him. The latter was arrested with the above result. Bran den berg - claimed —to the

parties ' who brought him down here that he was not in Wheatfield at all Saturday; said his name was Wm. E. Brandenburg while that signed to the check was W. C. Brandenberger. The stove, he said, he bought in a Rensselaer hardware store several months ago, and described the Rhoades 'hardware store as the place, but didn’t know the name of the store. The hoe, he claimed, he bought in Kersey, and the shovel, he said, did not belong to him at all, but was one his landlord had furnished him to do some work with. Brandenberg’s father resides up in the Gifford district, the family coming 'here from southern Illinois. He has three horses, some chickens and a dog or two on the farm he is working. Sheriff Hoover took him to his place and allowed 'him to care for the stock on the way down here. Tile man seemed to be much disappointed at his arrest, as he said he wanted to finish sowing his oats yesterday. Other prisoners in the jail seem to think Brandenburg is rather weak-minded, and not altogether responsible for what he does.