People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1895 — To Give Coffins a New Trial. [ARTICLE]

To Give Coffins a New Trial.

Indianapolis, Ind., May I.—The new trial of Francis and Percival Coffin for participating in the wrecking of the Indianapolis National bank during the panic of 1893 will be set to-day, when the May term of the federal court meets. Theodore P. Taughey, president of the bank, is now in Michigan City prison on a plea of guilty, serving a nine-year sentence. Francis Coffin too ill in New York to be in court, but Percival Coffin has arrived from New Mexico.