Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1919 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts of the Country. SNORT GITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in the Nearby Cities and Towns-—Matters of Minor Mention From Many LocalitiesGEORGE V. MOSS IS INDICTED Former Rensselaer Man Alleged To Be Allied With Hand of ' Swindlers. Chicago, 111., Sept. 18. —George V. Moss of Frankfort, Ind., and former resident of Rensselaer, Ind., was one of the twenty-five members of an alleged band of swindlers to be indicted by the September grand jury here. The men are accused in true bills with swindles aggregating $120,000,000, and are charged With conspiracy, operating a confidence game and embezzlement. Mr. Ross was born and educated In Rensselaer. He took a law course at the completion of his high school course in that city and then began the practice of his chosen profession at Frankfort. He has met with success and has always been regarded as a citizen of high standing in that community. The indictments are against officials of stock companies organized by one Charles W. French,' and millions of* dollars in worthless stock has been seized, it is**alleged, in raids on French’s headquarters in the Majestic hotel in Chicago. Moss was one of the trustees of the Collins Security Company of which Frank H. Collins, one of the indicted men, was the president. ' It is charged that the bunch were operating a confidence game, the purpose of which was to swindle the people of the middle west out of $120,000,000. The bonds of each of the indicted men was fixed at SIO,OOO.