The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-04-07
NAME OF CLYDE |, PECK APPEARS IN MANY
REAL ESTATE DEALS MADE BY EDGAR F. HIATT

the state of Illinois, knows Chowchilla
and knows the Daniel Hayes company.
He spoke before the Daniel Hayes
sale organization at the Hotel LaSalle,
July %, 1918. Read his address in
closed"
On April IS, 1919, the company sent
to H. ]. Miller, 3291a West Wilson
street, Madison, Wis, letters and cir
culars relating to the California land.
On Nov. IA, 1918, the company sent
to WILDER B. Davis, 207 Grove street,
Joliet, ILL.,, circulars and letters.
On Jan. 16, 1919. the company sent
letters and circulars to T. w. Wiley,
Pipestone, MINI.
One Sept A, the company sent cir
culars and letters to L. G. Richard
son, of Taylorville, ILL.,, and as a re-
suit of these circulars and letters, he
bought some of the land. Richardson
said in a letter that the land he bought
had been misrepresented to him and
the company sent him a letter which
| is set forth in the Indictment in which
the company expressed surprise at Mr..
Richardson's protest, and said that the
company had sold 10000 acres Of the
Hand to Iowa farmers and 5000 acres
| to Illinois farmers and had sold from
| half section to a whole section in a
dozen different central and southern
states.
On Sept. rs, 1919, the company sent
letters and circulars to Daniel Pagan,
lof Dubuque, Ia.
On Jan. 81, 1919, the company sent
letters and circulars to Charles Sche-
moor at Pringhar, Ia.
! On Feb. s, 1919, the company sent to
M. w. Houser of Cedar Rapids, Ia,
/ letters and circulars relating to the
] California land
Charges in Indictment.
The indictment charges that on Nov.
20, 1919, Charles Zimmerman, who was
/ secretary of the company, wrote let
I ter to Mrs. Lillian w. Pierce, Of Red
key, Ind, in which he made this state
Iment: 81 assure you that the com
pany is in better shape today than il
ever has been. We have 10 tractors
at work at the present time and all
developments are going ahead at q
rapid rate, and this development viii
; be greatly increased from time tc
time"
Another letter sent out to about 40(
prospects for California land reads, as
: set forth in the indictment, as fol
; lows in part:
i Dear Sir-Say, doggone it, wouldn't
it be fine if we had 40 acres down here
in Illinois or Iowa that we never hat
to put any fertilizer on, nor plow any
crops under-where it rains any time
you want it to, and stops every tins
you think dry weather is what you re
qVre? You will probably say there
: ain't no such animal, but this is ex
Iactly what the condition is at Chow
chilla, Cal, where Daniel Hayes
salesman, is selling land on a plaI
whereby the farm pays for itself"
The indictment charges that all O.
: these statements made to the variou!
: persons were untrue, that the land!
were unfit for farming purposes, ant
7 that no such crops could be raised
The indictment charges that the Dan
r Iiel Hayes company entered into gen
: eral conspiracy to defraud the public
} by the use Of the mails, and a blanke
} Indictment was returned against Dan
iel Hayes, president, treasurer and di
t rector; John H. Rodgers, Oscar c
, Lamp, Louis F. Courtner, Leslie L
!, Palmer, Thomas Seton, Clyde l.. Peel
Financial AGENT, Ralph w. West
. Charles E. Zimmerman, Mathew J
: Bence, Everitt E. Harrison, Edwar'
: G. Davis, Stephen Lawlor, Ben II
! Brainard, Charles H. Fries, William II
! Fries, r. NJ Anderson and G. w. POI
! ter. All of these were arrested an
: held under $4,000 bond.