Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1890 — GOT AWAY WITH $30,000. [ARTICLE]

GOT AWAY WITH $30,000.

Adel bert L. Brown, attorney and insur ance, loan and real estate agent,of Laporte, Ind., has fled for parts unknown, leaving creditors to the amount of $30,000 to mourn his departure. He has been in business here since attaining manhood, and being a liberal advertiser did a big business Brown dgured to some extent in politics and had Been a candidate for various offices. He is a brother of Judge Daniei Brown, of Concordia, Kan. His victims are coming iu by the score and have claims from $59 up to $250. The departed worked many schemes, the principle one being to give a mortgage and then give a second one ostensibly to re lease the first, but he would forget tq cancel the prior one, thus getting two loans on one piece of property. His most shameful trick was played -on Mrs. Condon, whose husband died not long ugo, leaving a life insurance policy of $1,500 in the New England Lito Insurance Company, for which Brown was agent. The money coming through his hands, Brown persuaded the poor Widow to loan it to him on his unsecured note. Now she is penniless, with four children to support The following insurance companies are out a total' of $1,000: Glens Falls and Westchester, of New York State; Springfield, of Springfield, Mass.; National and Connecticut, of Hartford, Conn.; Queen, of Liverpool, and New England Mutual Life, of Boston. Brown leaves a large family, but their effects have been taken by creditors with mortgages. Brown was a member of several secret societies, but was not long ago, expelled from the Knights of Pythias for slandering a brother member. He was tbe backer of the defunct Daily Post.