Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 207, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1912 — BELIEVE HODSON IS LIVING IN CHICAGO. [ARTICLE]

BELIEVE HODSON IS LIVING IN CHICAGO.

1 ■ - Indianapolis Police Say Windy City Department Has Dragnet Ont For Forger. Orville Hodson, youthful forger, who succeeded in getting $5,000 from the banks in Hartford City and Frankfort, and who attempted to pass a check on the National City Bank in Indianapolis for $7,500, is believed to be in Chicago spending the money. Hodson played hide and seek with the Indianapolis detectives for several days, but succeeded in getting away. It is said a general alarm has been sounded by the Chicago police for all of the detectives there to be on the lookout for young Hodson. If he is there he is proving himself as elusive as when he was in Indianapolis. i A local telephone operator with whom Hodson corresponded was taken to the office of Captain of Detectives Holtz Wednesday by detectives. They have known the identity of the "irl for some time and have been watching her in hope that Hodson would return to go to her home. iShe had not seen Hodson for a long 'time and has not heard from him since August 11, she said. The last letter was received after he was in trouble in Hartford City, and the girl said Hodson was very despondent. She declared that Hodson’s father visited her 'home Sunday, and with Sheriff Townsend, talked with her mother. She said they offered her mother SIOO if she would find young Hodson for them. The girl said, that in the last letter she received Hodson ended by calling himself her “unworthy friend,’' and saying in the future he would lead a good life. The girl said she became acquainted with Hodson when they attended school together in Indianapolis. iGa.pt; Holtz said that It was evident that Sheriff Townsend and Hodson’s father had endeavored to mislead the Indianapolis detectives Sunday. At that time, he says, the telephone girl whoin they said they could not find, was being watched by detectives.