Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1915 — FORMER BANK PRESIDENT [ARTICLE]

FORMER BANK PRESIDENT

Of Indiana Harbor Is Charged With Having Forged Signatures. Hammond, Ind., March 17. Charging the forgery of the signature of bank directors to a $68,000 bond to secure a $54,000 school fund deposit, four Indictments were returned late today by the grand jury against Charles Fowler, president of the Indiana Harbor Trust and Savings Bank, which went into the hands of a receiver 18 months ago. The forgeries are alleged only insofar as the qualifying portion of the boiid was concerned, as the di-

rectors had signed the petition for tlie deposit. Fowler provided $3,000 bond. He says he is being unjustly persecuted.