People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1896 — Prominent Chicago Man Rued. [ARTICLE]

Prominent Chicago Man Rued.

Chicago, April 1. —William T. Baker, president of the board of trade and president of the Civic federation, is accused of violating business confidence and defrauding to the extent of $20,000 in a bill filed yesterday in the United States Circuit court. Henry Clews, the New York financier, and Charles M. Foster, who, in 1882, was Clews’ partner, make the charge. At the time of winding up the affairs of the old First National bank the New York men say their interests were so juggled they got only a part of the value of their 100 shares of stock.