Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1898 — Ex-Banker Dreyer Sentenced. [ARTICLE]

Ex-Banker Dreyer Sentenced.

Chicago, July 6. —Edward S. Dreyer, former head of the banking and real estate firm of E. S. Dreyer & Co., was sentenced Tuesday by Judge Smith to the penitentiary to serve an indefinite period for embezzlement of $316,000 which the west park commission intrusted to him as its treasurer. The court has signed a bill of exception in the case, which will be taken to the supreme court.