The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-12-17
DEAD" fORGER IS
FOUND AFTER A
TWOYEAR'S SEARCH
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not much longer carry on the heavy
criminal deals that were plunging him
deeper and deeper into ruin and the
ruin of all those associated with him.
Story Of Supposed Drowning.
On the morning of Jan. %, 1907,
Agar left here with some repairs for
his boat. the Lafayette, with which he
was picking up corn on the Wabash
for the Princeton Elevator company,
Of which he was manager and treasur-
er. Agar accompanied the boat six
niles up the river and, It is claimed.
delayed its return until nightfall.
The night was dark and stormy, the
river a flooded torrent. A short dis
lance above the Mount Carmel eleva-
tor, according to the story of Capt.
Harrington, Agar walked out on the
forward barge. No one else was in
sight, the deck hands all being under
cover.
Suddenly from the pilot house, the
captain says, he saw a man he later
knew to be Agar, stumble over a bag
of corn and plunge from the barge in
to the river with a cry of Help The
captain quickly called for reversal of
the engines and gave the man over
board a cry, but in the swift current
the boat could not back up, and it was
several minutes before the boats were
out on the water.
Floating Hat All That Was Found.
A floating hat was all that was
found, and tne boat put into port. For
days the river was dynamited and
dragged, with the promise of large re-
wards for the body as the incentive.
In the meantime, the body not being
found, obsequies for the supposed
the Presbyterian minister, of which
| church Agar was an active member,
preaching the sermon. The attendance
was large, including the membership
| of numerous lodges, to which Agar be-
| longed.
Then came the revelations of the
great shortages, growing day by day.
H. d. McGary and w. M. Ford of New
Harmony, were found to be on paper
for nearly $4,000, and they claimed
much of this was forgery. Loss aft
er loss came in, many of the losers be-
ing farmers who had stored grain.
The elevators had been practically
stripped and the big string of them
throughout Southern Indiana and IL
pointed receiver for the elevator COM
pany and Samuel A. Stewart was nam
ed as administrator for the Agar es-
tate, settlements finally being made
by those Agar had left in the lurch.
Beginning of Insurance Fight.
Then came the insurance suits. An
attempt was made to prove Capt. Har-
rington an accomplice In the alleged
fraud, but nothing was proved in this
except that Harrington mad received a
500 check from Houston, Tex, from a
Frank Williams, which he admitted he
couldn't quite explain, it is claimed.
Harrington is now supposed to be in
Gary, Ind.
Several of the insurance cases were
appealed. The Union Central of Gin.
cinnai, paid its $1,000 policy and the
Reserve Loan Life OF indianapolis and
the Intermediate of Evansville placed
theirs in trust to be paid to the widow
after a certain length OF time if Agar
did not appear.
The policies in full were: A. P. A.,
5000; Ben Hur, So, 400; Modern Wood,
men, $1,000; Bankers Life of Des
Moines, Ia, $1,000; Court of Honor,
$1,000; Reserve Loan Life of Indianap-
oils, 5000; Union Central of Cincin-
natl, 5000; intermediate of Evans
vile, 81 900.
No suspicion attaches to Mrs. Agar
having any knowledge that her hus-
band is not dead, but his return to
Princeton will create some serious
complications in the insurance matter