Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 55, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1909 — A Former Delphi Youth Charged With Crime. [ARTICLE]

A Former Delphi Youth Charged With Crime.

Harry McFall, who resided for many years in Delphi and whose parents are fine people, was arrested in Lafayette last week on the charge of forgery and obtaining money under false pretenses. Harry worked for an express company 'for some time in California and when he left the employ of the company he stole a money order blank book. With this he would fill out blanks payable to George Allen Weeks and other aliases and presept them at various places for collection. He —« —WT — wore .good clothes and succeeded in warding off suspicion until he was arrested in Lafayette where he tried to pave an order cashed. A few days before his arrest he had visited bis old Delphi friends and been entertained in the best families. They little thought that they were entertaining a young criminal that had been sought all the way from the western coast to Chicago and thence to various towns in Indiana. McFall was a wild young man when he lived in Delphi, but was not considered vicious and simply sowed some wild oats, sowed to the wind as it were, and is now reaping of the whirlwind. His father has come to his rescue at /Lafayette and will probably pay back the money the son obtained at the various places, and the son will then be prosecuted on only the Lafayette charge and probably sentenced to the penitentiary. McFail is said to feel thoroughly penitent. Most people do when they are caught.