Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1911 — F. G. JONES GOES TO PRISON [ARTICLE]

F. G. JONES GOES TO PRISON

Fuse Company Chief Sentenced to Serve 4 to 14 Years at lonia, Mich. Grand Rapids, Mich., July, 7. —Judge William J. Stuart of the superior court sentenced President Frank G. Jones of the bankrupt American Electric Fuse company of Muskegon to lonia prison on an indeterminate sentence of four to fourteen years, with a recommendation of ten years. Jones, who confessed to the director of the company that he had secured between $500,000 and $720,000 on fraudulent paper, was arrested on complaint of the Old National bank of this city for forging a check for $5,452.64, purporting to have been signed by R. Williamson of Chicago. He pleaded guilty in the superior court and the sentence followed. Jones asserted that the money was all used in the company’s tbusiness and that he did not personally profit by the forgeries.