Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1909 — Who Is This Man That Is Supposed to Belong Here. [ARTICLE]

Who Is This Man That Is Supposed to Belong Here.

Lafayette Courier. A man representing himself as John Thompson and stating he lived upon the fgrm owned by William Myers near Raccoon, tried to pass a bogus check at Indianapolis Wednesday for |SOO drawn on the Indiana National bank at Indianapolis. The institution refused to honor the note and later received a telephone communication from the capital city saying the piece of paper was no good and that Thompson was without a deposit in their institution. Other important information was told in the dispatch. The telegram said a man came into their place of business several days ago under the same name and tried to cash a draft for |5,000, drawn on the Marchants’ National bank* of Lafayette. As soon as the check was honored Thompson went out and bought an auto. The company selling the machine refused to recognize the payment and the stranger took the money, but the banker failed to see him again. It was learned late? that Thompson was without deposit in the Murdock institution. The officers are on the trail of the accused and have found that his name is Wilson instead >of Thompson and he resides near Rensselaer.,They expect to land the stranger soon. ' This man going under the name of Thompson was a former “visitor to the West Side and arranged with Frank Clemens for the purchasing of the Kalberer home. While here he represented himself the same as at Greencastle. Freedom for J. Howard Phillips, embezzler of the Terre Haute National bank’s funds, was obtained when a 15,000 bond was furnished for his appearance before Judge Anderson la 1 the federal court next October.