Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1906 — CLEANED OUT WARREN SPINGER. [ARTICLE]

CLEANED OUT WARREN SPINGER.

W. H. Parkison, the attorney, wos- up to Chicago several days this week, having a legal battle with Warren Springer, the very wealthy man of that city who owns a large ranch in Walker tp., this county. Springer, as many of our readers will remember, owned an old rattletrap of a corn shredder which he hrd operated on his place, Frank Bricker worked for him and one day some part of the old machine went to pieces and one of Briokers arms was permanently mangled. He sued Springer and got judgment for $1,250, in Newton county, where the case was tried on change of venue. Springer appealed but

the supreme court affirmed the verdict. In the meantime Springer had been put into the hands of a receiver, but as the U. S. Casualty & Fidelity Co. was on his appeal bond, the Bricker judgment was good as gold. Springer, who never pays anything he can avoid, began scheming how to beat Bricker on some other tack. He got hold of a claim for medical services of the estate of Dr. Jones, insane, and of various Other small claims against Bricker, by representing that Bricker was working in Chicago and that he could collect the accounts there. He then sent word to Bricker telling him to come up there and he would settle with him. But when Bricker got there all he got was some summons to answer to suits against him in the Cook county courts. Springer had, in all, got hold of about ,S2OO in accounts against Bricker, but he sued him;for SBOO. He then propos ed that if Bricker would accept about 50 cents on the dollar on the old judgment he would throw down the fellows whose account he held for collodion. This Bricker refused to do, and Springer went on with his Chicago suits. Mr. Parkison appeared for Bricker, and acting on his plea, the Chicago court threw out Springer’s suit, holding

that as all the real parties live in Indiana, this is the proper place for the suit to be brought In the meantime, the Dr. Jones claim has been settled for $l2O. The Brisker judgment against Springer, with interest, now amounts to $1,500, and it must be paid by Feb. 28th, unless Springer finds some way jto get into the U. S. courts, which is not likely, for it is very doubtful, as his present financial tangles will probably makt it impossible for him to give the necessary bond.