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BILL'S IN JAIL.1Win. It. .McComas, a I»roU«*n Down Politician of Waynctown, Gets Himself Into a Very Serious Trouble.otlicer Bannister drove down to Waynetown last Tuesday and arrested Win. B. McComas on the charge of forgery. McComas was brought here and landed in jail where he still repineth.The arrest was made on complaint of Arthur Jordon Company's Craw-fordsville agent, Robert Manning, who charges that McComas had signed his natne and that of the Jordon company to checks without any authority whatever. Mr. Manning stated that the offense had been a repeated one by McComas but the one upon which the arrest was made was on the Wayne-towu bank in favor of J. E. Edwards for §12.71. It seems that McComas went around buying chickens and paid for them with these bogustchecks. The cheek in question was signed in the name of Arthur Jordon A* Co. per. Robert Manning. McComas never deliv* ered the chickens and has never been authorized to act as «he did. Unless he can give a very satisfactory explanation he will doubtless be sent up to serve the State.McComas is well known all over the county. A few years ago he was nominated by the Democrats for Sheriff and made a race which he conducted in a manner which reflected anything but credit upon himself and which resulted in a decisive defeat.
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Crawfordsville Weekly Journal
Crawfordsville, Indiana, US
Fri, Jan 22, 1897
Page 6
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