Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1917 — MORE CHARGES AGAINST CASEY [ARTICLE]

MORE CHARGES AGAINST CASEY

May Be Prosecuted for Violating the Mann White Slave Law. Since the arrest and return to this city of Edward Casey, charged with wife abandonment, more charges have come to light and ~it is said to be not at all improbable that the federal government will take a hand in the matter and prosecute Casey for violation of the Mann white slave law. According to a report from Hammond, where Casey worked for some time after leaving his wife and children here, he left there nearly a year ago and at the same time he left a young girl disappeared from that city. , They are said to have gone to Moline, Illinois, and to have lived together under the names of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Tracy at East Moline. The girl is also said to be the mother of Casey’s 6-months’-old son. It appears that the Hammond authorities have also been seeking Casey, and made several unsuccessful attempts to locate him through the mails. So cleverly ,had he maintained his double identity that when he filed a suit - for divorce last August the officers were still unable to get traces of him for several weeks. The divorce bill charged desertion and statutory offenses, says a dispatch from Moline which contained the above information. '