Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1920 — NO EXPLANATION IS OFFERED [ARTICLE]

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By Manager of Raub Elevator, Who Returns, After Disappearance. Lafayette, Sept. 9. —Lee Kelley, formerly manager of the Raub Grain company elevator at Raub, who disappeared two months ago, leaving the books of the company In confusion, Is now with his wit© and children at the home of Bert Ogle, his brother-in-law, at Forest, near Frankfort. He has made no explanation of his long absence, but he Insists that he did not, misuse the Raub company’s money. Lemuel Shipman of Fowler, who is auditing Kelley’s books, sald z Wednesday that the Raub company was out at least $50,000 as a result of grain deals made by Kelley. He said that the Sawers Grain company of Chicago, of which Warren T. McCray, Republican candidate for governor, Is vice-president and a heavy stockholder, and the McCardle & Bright Grain company of Indianapolis, with whom Kelley did business, have claims aggregating $50,000 against the Raub company, the Sawers. claim being for some $45,000 on board of trade speculations of Kelley. - : “The courts will have to determine who shall stand this loss,” Mr. Shipman said. “Kelley, it is said, contends that he lost the money In legitimate transactions. The company has taken no steps to prosecute him or to recover from him the money that has been lost. The whole question of liability will have to be decided by court proceedings which will determine who must stand the losses sustained.”