Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1906 — The U. B. Kellogg Case. [ARTICLE]

The U. B. Kellogg Case.

Ulysses B. Kellogg will be arraigned in the circuit court next Monday to answer the charge of grand larceny. The last session of tne grand jury returned a number of indictments against him. Some of. the indictments are fop one offense and some are for two. Some of the indictments contain several counts. The charges are grand larceny and obtaining money under false pretenses. The specific crime for which Mr. Kellogg will be tried next week is the alleged larceny of fifty dollars from Samuel Mitchell, a farmer living near Battle Ground: It is said that other citizens of Tippecanoe township were duped by Mr. Kellogg, who was selling Canadian lands, but the crime against Mr. Mitchell was the one selected by the stat. 1 of Indiana, represented by Prosecuting Attorney Flanagan, on which to try Mr. Kellogg. Mr. Flanagan will be assisted in the prosecution by Will R. Wood. Mr. Kellogg has occupied a cell in the county jail all summer. The transactions that led to his arrest occurred in December and January last. It is alleged that quite *a number of people at Rensselaer and Bloomington were duped as well as a number living at Battle Ground and in this city. Mr. Lowden, deputy prosecuting attorney of Monroe county is wilting to admit that he had fifty dollars more than he knew what to do with and he gave it to Mr. Kellogg. Mr. Kellogg proposed to sell the people here and in other places some desirable farm land in Canada at a nominal price. He asked them to advance fifty dollars to cover the expense of taking them to Canada and to make the first payment on the land. The people were to leave on a certain date, but the special coach that was to be provided for them did not put in an appearance. The Bloomington friends of Mr. Kellogg met at the depot and waited for the special coach. They were so eager to make the trip that it took them about forty-eight hours to find out that Mr. Kellogg was fooling them. Then they got so mad that they had him arrested but the case was almost laughed out of court and the jury acquitted Mr. Kellogg almost without leaving their seats. He was then arrested on an affidavit made by George W. Michael, one of his Lafayette victims, and was brought to this city. He was given a prelim inary nearing and his bail was fix ed, but he could not find anyone to go his security and w is sent to jail. A.t the trial next week, Mr. Kellogg will be represented by Robert Miller, of Bloomington, and John F. McHugh ancTCharles E. Thompson, of this city. Charles H. Payson, ci Watseka, 111., assisted in his defense at Bloomington, but will not be permitted to practice in the courts here. He was disbarred some time ago in Illinois and the supreme court of that state recently denied him a rehearing. If he cannot practice in the Sucker state, he will not be permitted to practice in Indiana.