Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1912 — CELL OPENS FOR AGAR [ARTICLE]

CELL OPENS FOR AGAR

Former Indiana Grain Dealer, Convicted of Embezzlement, Released.

Indianapolis. Jan. s.—Henry E. Agar, formerly a millionaire grain dealer of Gibson county, operating elevators in twenty towns along the Ohio river, was released from prison and left for Texas. " Agar disappeared from a boat on the Wabash river in 1907 and.was thought to have been drowned. His wife collected $20,000 life insurance. It soon developed that he had

forged cheeks sos a large amount of money, had embezzled thousands of bushels 6f grain and liad forged names of friends to notes. Two years later he was found in Benito, Tex., where he was engaged in business,.-having changed his name. He was arrested, brought back to Gibson county and convicted