Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1912 — Prominent Farmer Charged With Fraud. [ARTICLE]

Prominent Farmer Charged With Fraud.

Sheriff Hoover received a letter Wednesday morning from the sheriff at Peoria. 111., instructing him to arrest John Zehr. a prominent farmer of Carpenter <p., residing northeast -of - Remington, and to wire him and he would send a deputy with the necessary papers for taking him back to Peoria to answer a charge as a confidence man. Mr. Hoover ascertained that Mr. Zehr was at his home and at work on his farm, and so wired the Peoria officer, and told him that he could be got at any time; that if desired he would meet his man at Remington and go with him to Zehr's home; that Zehr stood well here and there was no danger of his attempting to get out of the country, and to wire reply. .Up ,to yesterday noon Sheriff Hoover had not received any reply to his telegram, and we are unable therefore at this time to give any f particulars about the matter.