Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1902 — Perjury in Job Lots. [ARTICLE]

Perjury in Job Lots.

Warren Springer, the Chicago ! millionaire who owns and runs a big ranch in Jasper county, and who also does real estate and other business on a large scale, is also accused of using false swearing in wholesale quantities, according to indictments just returned against him by the Cook County grand jury, in Chicago. The indictments are the result of a long standing trouble between Springer and some other parties, and which they have been la wing about for years, and during the course of which a big judgment was obtained against Springer but which seems never to have been collected. The other parties are builders and contractors, and it is alleged that Springer plotted to have them put up a big building on his lot under the supposition that it belonged to other parties. Also that a bogus loan figured in the transaction.

Springer says the whole proceeding is an attempt to blackmail him, and that there is nothing in the charges of perjnry, while on the other hand, the state’s attorneys claim they have plenty of evidence to prove the perjury. The penalty for that offense in Illinois is from one to five years in the penitentiary. i One thing that makes it look like it was money more than justice the parties were after who secured the indictments is that in four days more the statute of limitations would have let Spring e out.