Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1907 — THAT RASCALLY HOEN [ARTICLE]

THAT RASCALLY HOEN

Aged Scoundrel Who Robbed Hie Sitter Who Had Been His , Benefactor. HE IS BACK FULL OF REMORSE Sister Surprises the Police by Saying She Will Prosecute—Attack on Vice President Fairbanks. Indianapolis, June 5. Filled with remorse because of having robbed his aged sister, Mrs. Christina Nold, 426 Virginia avenue, who had supported, him much of the sixty-five years of his life, Frederick William- Hoen, the fugitive who escaped the police after robbing a safety deposit box of about $60,000 worth of securities, was brought to Indianapolis from Cincinnati by a detective. A surprise came to the police department when Mrs. Nold, through one of her friends, telephoned to Captain Bray and announced that she would aid In the prosecution of Hoen. She Changed Her Mind.

The speaker told Bray that the woman had decided that Hoen had caused her so much trouble that she now thinks that he ought to be punished, Mrs. Nold said she would defray the expenses of bringing Hoen back to Indianapolis. Mrs. Nold at the time of signing a warrant larceny against Hoen, stated positively to the police that she did not wish her brother prosecuted, and that she signed the warrant because it was the best plan to capture Hoen and recover her fortune. The police are now speculating as to her change of mind. Case of Forgery Discussed.

The case of forgery against Hoen was dismissed in the Cincinnati police cpurt. It was evident that the old man had forged his sister’s name to power of attorney papers at the time he converted about SIO,OOO worth of the stolen securities Into cash, in the office of Claude Ashbrook, a Cincinnati broker. Ashbrook’s attorney was responsible for the dismissal of the forgery charge. Another Angle to the Matter.

The publication of the story that Mrs. Nold’s safety deposit box in Fletcher’s National bank had been robbed of $60,000 worth of securities caused Charters & Lowe, tax ferrets, with offices in the Law building, to "pricks up their ears.” They began an investigation and found, on looking up the records that during Mrs. Nold’s four years’ residence in Indianapolis she has paid only S4O taxes on personal property.

BOUGHT UP AEE THE COPIES How Friends of Vice President Fairbanks Are Ffghting a Campaign Against Him. « ’ Indianapolis June s.—Not a copy of Collier’s or of the Saturday Evening Post containing the articles on Vice President Fairbanks Can be secured In this city. It is said that a local notice of the appearance of the • two stories aroused the friends of the vice president and that as soon as the periodicals arrived they went In force to the hotelsand news dealers and bought up every copy that came to the city except such as were ordered In advance by regular patrons. These have been going the rounds and have caused much amusement by reason of the charge that Fairbanks is posing gs having been boro in a log cabin. His friends, however, assert that the biography of the vice president, on which the article In Collier’s Is based, is absolutely true and that the articles does him rank injustice- It is not denied that frlende of Fairbanks bought up the issues ot the two periodicals.

Stabbed by an Unknown. / Wabash, Ind-, June 5. —L. R. Cochran, operator at the Wabash railway block station at Hartman, was mysteriously stabbed at night while at work. Though suffering from loss of blood he remained at his post till he finally became unconscious, and he was still Insensible when found. Cochran can give no intelligible account of the assault War on a “Bread” Tenet. *

Washington, Ind., June 5. The company organized in this <tty to fight the bread trust has purchased the site of an old mill here, and is making extensive repairs on the building. The plant will do a wholesale business and will attempt to Capture the trade of surrounding towns, which now goes to the larger cities. Coal Beelers In Session. Indianapolis, June 5.—-Members of the Indiana and Michigan Coal Dealers* association began their .annual session at the Claypool hotel yesterday. They were welcomed by Governor Hanly and Mayor Bookwaiter. An executive session was held to consider applications for membership. Strike Probably a Sure Thing. Terre Haute, Ind., June 5. T. L. Lewis, national vice president of the United Mine Workers, has arrived here for a conference with the district officials, regarding the conduct the strike in the soft coal fieldß ? yftere is styall hope of settlement- < Used a Knife in a Fight. Anderson, Ind.', June 5. Harry Irvin, '26 years old, is in a serious condition as the result of bqlng stabbed about the chest snd cut about the face and back by Charles Hudson, who is in jail. Irvin is unable to be removed from his home.