Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1920 — SIX CONSUMERS MEN GUILTY [ARTICLE]

SIX CONSUMERS MEN GUILTY

Members of Chicago Packing Firm Convicted of Swindle. Chicago. Oct. 22. —Six officials of the Consumers’ Packing company \vore found guilty of using the mails to defraud by a jury before Federal Judge Evans. Two other members of ' the firm previously pleas of ‘guilty. Government attorneys charged tlirtt the firm had defrauded stockholders out of $500,000 through sales of worthless stocks. Ail the defendants were found guilty on 14 counts. This would aggregate u penitentiary term of 70.. rears for each if the maximum were imposed.