Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1915 — Purtelle Under Arrest In Chicago. [ARTICLE]

Purtelle Under Arrest In Chicago.

Eugene Purtelle, the traction promotor, well known in this city, also in White, Jasper and Newton counties, where he undertook to promote traction lines, was arrested on Tuesday in Chicago on a warrant charging him with operating a confidence game. W. A. Miller, a Chicago attorney, is the prosecuting witness. A Chicago dispatch has the following to say regarding his arrest: “Miller says Purtelle posed as president of the Tipton-Frankfort Traction Company and told investors he was building a railroad from Tipton to Frankfort, Ind., and was selling shares of stock for money to buy equipment. Miller says he bought several hundred dollars’ worth of stock and then visited Frankfort and Tipton. When he returned to Chicago he swore out a warrant charging Purtelle with operating a confidence game.”—Lafayette Journal.