Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 86, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1915 — PASSED WORTHLESS CHECKS. [ARTICLE]

PASSED WORTHLESS CHECKS.

Former Kentland Lawyer Jailed in Chicago Last Friday. Frank M. Ross, a former Kentland attorney, who has been practicing law in one of Lake county’s industrial cities for the past year or two, and figured in a bad check deal there .several months ago, is again in trouble according to a SatChicago paper, which said of hinj: ’ , In the “honeymoon suite” of the Bradley (Hotel at’Rush and Indiana streets is an unhappy bride. ‘ Since early yesterday when she retired to her room she has refused to see anyone, to answer the telephone or respond to any knock on her door. To the hotel clerks she is known as “Mrs, Marion,” the name under which she registered when she and her husband first went to the hotel several weeks ago. With the other guests at the hotel “Mrs. Marion” was popular and a favorite. Yesterday two Central station detectives made their appearance and announced that they had a warrant for her husband. They took him away to a cell. Later it developed that he was Frank MaTion Ross, former member of the Hamilton Club and a lawyer He is accused of passing worthless checks pn a number of Chicago business houses. He was married two months ago'in Waukegan. His wife tried to intercede With the detectives, and, failing, was prostrated with grief over the sudden wreck of her honeymoon.

In dejection in his cell at the central station the husband admitted obtaining money by means of worthless checks. “I must have been crazy,” he tola a detective. “It was not that my wife or I needed money. It was just a fool - trick on my part. I'm afraid I am ruined for life.” Ross’ home is in Kentland, Ind. Last night he admitted that he had been divorced from his first wife, a daughter of a prominent Kentland citizen. Among the places he is said to have cashed checks are the Hamilton Club, Hotel LaSalle, Weber & Co., and several downtown department stores. His alleged peculations netted him about SSOO, the police say. The present Mrs. Ross is said to have formerly been a Miss Cummings, a daughter of attorney William Cummings, deceased, of Kentland, and says that she wished to keep their marriage a secret from her mother who opposed her marriage to Ross. The parties claim to have been recently married.