The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-08
BADDERS TO "PEN"
Former Topeka Merchant Must
Serve Five Years.
Supreme Court Affirms Federal
Court Conviction.
It'll TAKE MY MEDICINE
Badders Says He Will Try to
Procure Justice.
Must Turn Himself Over With
in Next so Days.

George S. Badders. former president
of the Badders Clothing company of
Topeka, must serve a term of five
years in the federal penitentiary for
misuse of the mails. The supreme
court of the United States has affirm
ed the conviction of Badders secured
by federal officials in the lower court
Within the next thirty days the man
date of the supreme court will be sent
down to Morton Albaugh, clerk OF the
federal district court, and within thlr-
ty days after it is received Badders
must turn himself over to the United
States marshal
Badders is now in Wichita, employ
ed as a salesman for an automobile
company. He has his liberty under
bond of $1,000
Before he became president of the
now bankrupt Badders Clothing COM
pany, Badders was secretary of the
Topeka Commercial club and was
prominent in business circles of the
CITY. He purchased the stock of the
Marshall Clothing company Novem-
Der s, 1911, and his troubles with the
authorities date from that TRANSACTION
A year later he organized the Badders
Clothing company with capital STOCK
of $4,000 Everything ran along
without a ripple until December, 1913,
when Badders inaugurated sale that
astoniShed Topeka and the surround
ing country.
Creditors Were Alarmed.
Prices unknown to Topekans were
made on clothing. Holders of Bad
ders paper in eastern cities heard of
the sale and became nervous. Bad
ders was in the east buying more
clothing. His creditors began arriv-
ing in a steady stream and in January,
1914, they brought involuntary bank
ruptcy proceedings against the cloth
ing company. Civil suits engaged
Badders's attention until March IS,
1914, when he was arrested on orders
from Fred Robertson, United States
district attorney, on the charge of
using the mails to defraud. 1t was
charged that Badders had made false
representations to his creditors in OBJ
tanning stocks of clothing for his store
First the bankruptcy charge against
the Badders' Clothing company was
threshed out in the federal courts.
The company was declared bankrupt
Then the criminal charge against Bad
ders was taken before the court. Bad
ders was convicted on seven counts.
He was sentenced to a term of five
years in the penitentiary. In addition
to that he was given a fine of 5000.
His attorneys appealed the case to the
United States supreme court last June
and the appeal is the matter passed
upon by the court.
Declared Bankrupt.
While the criminal case was pend
ing bankruptcy proceedings against
Badders, personally, were brought
That action was tried out before Judge
John c. Pollock at Kansas City. Bad
ders was declared bankrupt.
After two years of court procedure
George S. Badders has drawn about all
the courts can give him
His stock company is declared a
bankrupt concern.
He is held a bankrupt, personally.
He faces a term of five years in the
federal penitentiary.
He must pay a fine of $4,000.
At Wichita, Badders said over the
telephone, when informed of the con-
tents of a dispatch from Washington
telling of the courts findings:
What can do but take my medi-
cine? But if there is any way to get
justice I shall certainly try"