Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1911 — PURTELLE’S SUCCESS [ARTICLE]

PURTELLE’S SUCCESS

In Rensselaer May Have Prompted Him Landlord Fate Cashes Bad Check. \- Landlord Fate of the Makeever House, was slimmed out of .$25 last Wednesday by a guest of nice appearance, signing himself as Otto Burtis, who claimed to be in the employ of a Chicago publishing house. He presented a check purporting to be from his firm, on the Fourth National Bank of Chicago, in payment of his bill. The check looked all right, and when the man showed letters identifying himself. Mr. Fate cashed the "check, and later deposited it in bank here. Friday the local bank was informed that there was no such bank in Chicago as that on which the check was drawn, and on Mr. Fate’s communicating with the publishing company over the phone he was tdl'd' that

Burtis was not in their employ and that he had worked the same game in many different places.