Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1886 — The Bie Boodle Racket! [ARTICLE]

The Bie Boodle Racket!

ifT-rw Local Hunho Men half Gcured the aSylter» of Tlii'ee oNWlie*• MxnLßor.6, Ind. M ch 16.* EDITQit Rfitblican : This. .Tuesday, afternoon the pauple of I this pail of the cciunty turned out iu force to bear the trial <>£.lll*l i»n»d.interesting Inv suit that ever .came off in this sect ion. ft was a 1 caise growing iMb' the counterfeit money swindle which was operated <juitr c-xiensiveh ..in this vicinity, n short time ngv. The. "Boodle” | 4ntF" imrkcd ■ “by —-AV iUiam G I »»y-8i nd - Ci I Hl ler- IjOUA, Pivtrfto' 1 '.toy inuh! ;t*i;d and i.<t money, printed on G < v f plate.- arid pa];< i, end in every way so perfect, that i’> vuv could tell it from the gcrim.cy ihis the} were to furnish t,.1 tei cents oo The u liar, -but would .receive no. order-fur. les? tbon bttCO vert!;, a Gray A .Lowe would take- the good money and - to send and have tile boo-. *dl?’yseat by express to the •‘suck°rs" bidetii g it. The managers salted down the money an<l the ' I)—b',—. S- duumt 1 d the Express oftic< .in T aiii, 'nothing ever Quite a number took the bait. who lives over in tire edge of White county, ami the case tried U-day was a suit bfCStg&t bj intif, agaihT-4 Charles \V. Lowe, before Esquire Knox, to recover back the SICK* given to Lowr to send - for *IOOO of the “stuff. 1 ' Rishling’s pier, was that he loaned the money to Lowed but and the testimony of other witness. .. es showed that touch - ' was not the fajff. Several witnesses were called on'each side, and the case ably at gated by the. attorneys, Mr. No- | land for the plaintiff, and Mi> IL VV. Marshall for defendant; After wliichrEsq—Knox promptly -gave his decision, for the. defendant, that-there was no cause for action. At first blush some people might think it was a wrong decision; but there can be no doubt it is in accordance with law. Neither p’lrty to a fraudulent, nr illegal eoutraci, can get '-relief from the courts. Vrnton Towntffiip too d i:a tea A notable occasion, last Saturday, evening, was the graduating exercises at Sayler school house, tn Newton township. About 290 persons were present, including nearly every school pupil in- the township. The room was so full . that if another person hnd brrcir crowded in at the, front wloor, another would have fallen out at the back window. —The graduate# were live in number. their nanus being: Everett Halstead. fcrai (loot;:. Wjnuona Ssyler, Newton Sayler, and “Mary A. Waerthner. Besides tire essays and orations es the there were many other interesting,exercises by other pupi's of. the township;_ inirsiy, .singing, Ac. Air. Benjamin, the township trustee, presented the diplomas, with an appropriate ad----d«k Nelsen handed out some thirty Certificated > f Honor, to as many different pupils of the township Altogether it. was a very successful affair of ts kind, and especial credit is due to Miss Mattie Beujamin for her ir.defatiguable labors in preparing soy ” • -Have you seen these Linen Collars for euly-lOjcents at-Llempliill A’ Honan’s.