Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1919 — EO OLIVER AGAIN TO THE FORE [ARTICLE]

EO OLIVER AGAIN TO THE FORE

Alleged to Have Overstepped the Law in Ousting a Tenant. Ed Oliver, who has gained considerable notoriety through his connection with onion growing and selling of lands in about Newland and later through his marriage to the widow of an at one time rOputed millionaire, Mrs. Warren Springer, of Chicago, and who only last summer got in bad with the food administration in securing 500 pqunds of sugar by making an alleged false affidavit, is again in the limelight in Jasper county. Oliver is alleged to have brought down some tin-star thugs from Chicago last Saturday and gone out to Newland and deliberately thrown Robert Grimm out of a property ( there which Grimm’s is now in the anm.y service, had bought frotfl Oliver a year or two ago. One or two of the Chicago “officers” are said to have had re vol v-

ers strapped to their hips, and guns and clubs were very much in evidence in dispossessing Mr. Grimma. The latter, who bore several marks of the fray, was in town Monday and affidavits were prepared to take Oliver and his bunch of Chicago employes into custody as soon as they can be apprehended, it being understood that they returned to Chicago Saturday evening. If Oliver had any legal grounds for ousting Mr. Grimm he should have secured court action here, Grimm’s attorney says, and officers —if they were such—had no business coming down to Indiana from Chicago, in another state, to enforce orders of a civil court. But it is not believed that any legal action was taken anywhere; that Oliver simply hired thdfe alleged officers to do whatever he asked them to do, and that he had no respect for the law in so doing. Up to yesterday noon no affidavits had been filed in the circuit court, but it was understood they had been prepared and would be filed soon. Later —Seven 'state cases were filed against Oliver et al yesterday afternoon. No. 1718 is against Heiman J. Kuppers, charging assault and battery on the person of Robert Grimm. No. 1719 is'also against Kupp?r charging the same offense on the person of Mary Grimm, wife of Robert.

No. 1720 is against Edtvard Cavendish, charging assault and battery. No. 1721 is against Oliver, Kupper and Cavendish, and charges grand larceny, in feldnously stealing, taking and carrying away of the property and* chattels of Robert and Mary Elizabeth Grimm of the value of S2OO. No. 1722 is against Kupper and charges petit larceny, in the taking of one set of doubletrees of the value of $5. . No. 1 723 is against Oliver, Kupper and Cavendish, and Charges conspiracy in agreeing with each other to break open and enter the house of affiant, striking and beating him, etc. No. 172 4 is against the same three parties and charges malicious trespass, in entering home of affiant and tearing up carpet and linoleum, etc., damaging same to amount of $75.

It is said that a considerable number of Chicago people have been induced to buy muck land about Newland again the past season and will move down here to be disillusionized. One man, who alleges that he and his family gave up jobs bringing them in S3OO per month, bought a small tract of Oliver at $250 per acre and moved, down here recently via auto truck. Oliver had adroitly managed it, he alleges, so that he did not 'ee the “house” on this land or, in fact, the particular ground, and when he got down to Newland he tried to hire the truck man to take his goods bkck to Chicago, but without avail. Then, he alleges, he stored his goods in a leaky shed at the Oliver home place and the thins of last week utterly ruined a piano and most of his furniture, so much so that he stated he was going to pile the goods out in the road in front of the Oliver place and burn them, then go back to Chicago and see if anything could be done with Oliver for getting him down here. i You can still buy a good'-rub-ber-tipped lead pencil for a nickel in The Democrat’s fancy stationery and office supply department.