Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 204, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1912 — FAILS TO FIND GIRL HODSON KNEW HERE, [ARTICLE]

FAILS TO FIND GIRL HODSON KNEW HERE,

Father of Alleged Forger Seeks Clew in Tain —Hopes to Find and Save Son. Indianapolis Star. John Hodson, of Hartford City, Ind., father of Orville Hodson, the 19-year-old alleged forger, who has been playing hide and seek with the Indianapolis detectives since he is said to have obtained nearly $6,000 from banks at Frankfort and Hartford City, and attempted to pass a bogus check for $7,000 on the National City Bank here, was unsuccessful yesterday in his search for a girl, who, he says, is Miss Anna Mann, a telephons operator, with whom he said his son corresponded. Mr. Hodson, accompanied by Sheriff Charles Townsend, of Hartford City, hoped, by finding trace of the young woman, to get some trpce of the son. They said they did not know" where she lived and that the information they had she was employed £y a telephone company. No Anna Mann is employed at either of the local telephone offices, according to inform'ation obtained last night, and the name does not appear in the city directory. . It is the opinion Pf Mr. Hodson that his son left the city the day he attempted to pass the check ori the local bank. The father and the sheriff first went to the rooming house on North Illinois street, where young Hodson roomed with Clyde Furry when he attended school here, but they found that Furry is not In the city. Detectives say Furry, has been in Ohio for. several months. “I do not know much about the young woman, whose name I have learned is Anna Mann,” said Mr. Hodson. “Orville, I believe, got acquainted with her while he was attending school in Indianapolis. I am anxious to find Orville, because I believe these financial difficulties could be fixed up and he could make, a* man of himself. “I have got a farm near Hartford City. It is not very large, hut what there it is good and Orville had everything that he could wish for. I do not see what could have prompted him to have acted in this manner. "I anr-on his bond in Hartford City for $2,000 for his appearance in the circuit court on October 14th.” Mr. Hodson reviewed the actions of his son, but was unable to give the detectives any clew which would lead to apprehending young Hodson. He said It was not the bond he was worrying about, but he wanted his son captured so that something might be done for him. -The detectives are handicapped in their search for yodng Hodson because few of them know him by sight. They say they believe he has left Indianapolis.