The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-01-13
WHO WAS DIR.
SELFRIDGE?
BURR OAK MAN is A MYS-
Terry TO LITTLE VII
LACE.
Says He Came There to Cure
Himself of Liquor Habit
Has Gone.

Dr. w. /. S6ltrldge OF Burr
Oak, who was in the limelight
some weeks ago as the complain
ant in a case charging VIM. Van
derweele with running a blind I'll
ger and maintaining slot ma
chine, is again a subject of motor
iety in matter in which lle, will
take the defendant if the case is
taken into court, says the Culver
Citizen.
AS the case now stands DIR.
Selfridge is a fugitive from justice
and stands charged with the Sc
riouS crime for forgery. On the
5th OF December George NJ
Osborn, the dairyman living near
Burr Oak was in the Farmers
State bank of Knox when DR..
Selfridge came in and presented
a check for $3.50 drawn in his
favor by Daley and Hays OF
Frankfort on a bank in Frankfort
The cashier asked Mr.. Osborn
| if he was acquainted with
DR.. Selfridge and upon receiving
satisfactory assurance asked Mr..
lOsborne to endorse the check
which he did. Mr.. Osborn at the
same time asked Dir Selfridge to
pay him $50 which the latter had
borrowed to pay the expense, as
the doctor alleged, OF a trip to
lOklalloana where he sait his
mother was dangerously i'll. The
doctor made a pretense OF offer
ing Mr.. Osborn the money, but
withdrew it on some plausible ex-
cuse for the time being. Within
a few days the doctor went to
Chicago, and about the same time
the Frankfort bank notified the
Knox bank that Daley and Hays
had no account with it and that
dattbtless the check was a for
gerry. Then came the packing UP
OF the Selfridge fainily's house
hold possessions for removal to
Chicago, and Mrs. Selfridge and
her nine year old son took the
train for that city. They were ac-
companied by a young man. a
stranger in Burr Oak. Mr.. Osborn
boarded the same train and also
notified the sheriff OF Starke coun-
ty to join him. While rhe train
was on its way to Chicago dep
uty sheriff at Knox tsdephoned
to a police department detective
whom ne knew to meet the train
at Englewood to get hold OF the
doctor if possible. The detective
boarded the train at Englewooi
and it was seen that he and the
young man accompanying Mrs.
Selfridge were acquainted. At the
Chicago station, the doctor did
not appear, and Mrs. Selfridge
'ook Palmer house cab. Here
is where the detective failed to
1etect for the cab was not follow
I'd and Mrs. Sesiridge's destina-
ion was not learned. The impress
sion prevails that the detective
md the young man mad an under
standing in the interest OF DIR.
SelfridSe. The latters where
abouts are not yet known, and
| Mr.. Osborn stands to lose his
money.
DR.. Selfridge has furnished
Burr Oak with plenty of material
for gossip. He appeared in the
town last summer, not long after
The robbery OF $1,400 worth oi
silks from Nickel Plate box car
| He is a man OF about 80 years oi
|aee. and has evidently seen con-
siderable OF the world. He is re-
outed to be a good doctor. He told
| the story in Culver that he had
been hard drinker and located III
Burr Oak in order to get away
from the saloonsinAuences AS The
story goes, however, he found
plenty OF opportunity for indulg-
ing his appetite. Many have SITS
Dec.ed him of being 1etectivc
and il rs said that he privately
showed police credentials W hat
crime he was sent u Burr Oak 10
un-ovc is not very clear, h1wev-
er. In support OF the theory that
he had unusual influence with the
abroad it was stated that he was
,ble tc step the fast trains 1T Burr
| Oak to take him on or let him
off.
Death of Sister M. St. Ambrose.