Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 100, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1909 — ROBERT PARKER SAID TO BE IN GOOD HEALTH. [ARTICLE]

ROBERT PARKER SAID TO BE IN GOOD HEALTH.

Attorneys and Bank Trustee Saw Him In Penitentiary Tuesday When -Depositions Were Taken. Attorney Geo. A. Williams of this city, Attorney Emery B. Sellers, of Monticello, and Trustee Cheedle, of the failed Remington bank, were in Michigan City Tuesday for the purpose of securing depositions from Robert Parker, the bank wrecker, in the case of Mrs. 'SHaria Vondersmith against the Remington Building and Loan Association. The visitors found Mr. Parker in excellent spirits and apparently in the very best of health, contrary to a recent statement from one of Parker’s attorneys, which was to the effect that he could not live long in confinement, and which is thought to have been the first signal that an effort was to be made to procure his release. Mr. Parker’s hands Y ere soft and white and it is understood that he has a very easy position as librarian at the penitentiary, and that aside from the confinement being irksome he is" not having a very hard time at the penitentiary. He was sentenced for from 2 to 14 years on a plea of guilty for embezzlement. The Vondersmith case has attracted considerable attention. She took money to the Parker bank tb deposit and received what she presumed to be a slip of deposit. After the bank failed it transpired that the slip she had received was not a bank deposit but a building and loan certificate. As Mr. Parker was the secretary of the building and loan association it is hoped by Mrs. Vondersmith, who has employed Attorney Williams, to hold the association responsible. Attorney Sellers represents the B. & L. association. Hats trimmed to suit your own individual ideas by expert trimmers, at Rowles & Parker’s new millinery department. Get a can of those fine N. Y. Count oysters at Fate’s. They are as big as the ten commandments and as easily swallowed.