Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 April 1920 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts of the Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in the Nearby Cltiea and Towns — Matters of Minor Mention From Many Localities. - . . JI 1 " — BURNED HOUSE FOR INSURANCE High School Teacher Admits Deed Committed at Reynolds. Lafayette, April 8. —Paul Rector, who formerly lived at Reynolds, a teacher in the high school at Montmorenci, Tippecanoe county, Attica and Reynolds, has signed a cenfebslon at the state fire marshal’s office at Indianapolis, it is announced by authorities here, that he set fire to a house at Reynolds, which he is said to have had Insured a short time before. Rector is alleged to have collected SBOO insurance after the fire. Rector deposited a draft for SBOO in the Lafayette Loan and Trust company, and checked against it. later the money he drew out in checks was made good to the bank. -Rector then deposited the draff in the West Lafayette State bank, and again checked against it, the officials announced. I An opportunity has been given Rector and his father to pay back *the money drawn on the draft by April 15, with the understanding that lenity will be asked when the case comes up in court, if the money is paid, it is added. Rector is a member of a widely known family at Reynolds. He has been in trouble several times before.