Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1915 — MORE ABOUT W. L. MOYER. [ARTICLE]

MORE ABOUT W. L. MOYER.

Wife of Promotor O. L. Brown’s “Angel” Files Suit for Divorce. Yesterday’s Lafayette Journal had the following article relative to the W. L. Moyer, who is now associated with O. L. Brown in promoting his so-called Lafayette & Northwestern Railroad, and who, it has been stated, would secure the necessary funds to build the road if Rensselaer and Marion tp. will only vote the $61,000 asked for here: t The following neWs story, published in the Chicago Tribune yesterday, will be of interest to the people of Lafayette. The W. L. Moyer referred to is the gentleman who was introduced by O. L. Brown at the Chamber of Commerce meeting Wednesday and who spoke at some length in regard to the Lafayette and Northwestern Railroad company: "William L. Moyer, at one time vice president of the defunct La Salle Street Trust and Savings bank, was sued for divorce yesterday by

Mrs. Evelyne A. Moyer, of 4 731 Lake Park avenue. Mrs. Moyer charges her husband deserted her in February, 1913-. She is now living with her mother. * "Moyer, whq has held important banking positions in half a dozen cities and once drew a $50,000 salary as a; bank president, is living in retirement in North Manchester, Ind, He came into the limelight in Chicago in December, 1913, after his withdrawal from the Lorimer bank, when he was arrested on a Kansas City federal indictment, charged with promoting a $2*000,009 trust company with a capital of only a few thousand dollars; "According to the government officials, Moyer, as chairman of the board of directors of the American Union Trust Company, of Kansas City, used the mails to offer fraudulent stock, to which it was claimed that J. Odgen Armour and many others were large subscribers. “Moyer’s banking career was Meteoric while it lasted. He is widely known in financial circles in Chicago, New York, and other cities and lias been at various times a partner in Marcus Daly’s banking firm in Butte, Mont., president of the Shoe and Leather National bank of New York, assistant cashier of the American Trust and Savings bank in Chicago, and an official in various other concerns. “Mrs. Moyer was not at home last evening and her mother, Mrs. Townley, declined to discuss her daugh ter’s suit.” Mrs. Moyer was formerly Miss Evelyne Austin, of Indianapolis, a daughter of Mrs. George E. Townley. She was first married to E. S. R. Seguin, of Indianapolis, and later to Mr. Moyer.