The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-04-11
A DETECTIVES LONG CHASE.

A DETECTIVES LONG CHASE.
The trial of Dr. Isaac B. Doren, of Rush
sylvania Lorain county, for forgery, will &C.
cur at the approaching term of the United
States Court, Toledo, Ohio. Doren was a
prominent man in Rushsylvania. He was
postmaster. pension and bounty claim agent,
physician and proprietor of drug store. 1t
is charged that Doren swindled his pension
clients out of thousands of dollars during sew
eral years. His alleged plan of operations,
as explained by the authorities, was to pick
out the letters of his clients, which he as
postmaster could easily do, remove the drafts
enclosed forge the names of the persons for
whom they were intended, endorse the drafts
himself, take them to neighboring town,
where he was well known, and get the money.
Then he would quiet his clients with such
amounts as he chose to give them. 1t is also
alleged that some of the claims were fraudu-
lent. Doren fell under suspicion, and an ex-
aminer of the pension department began to
look into his transactions He disappeared.
Two months afterward, when all trace of him
was lost Capt. Abbott, of the secret service,
was put in charge of the case, with instruc-
tons to find the missing doctor if possible.
Doren had left wife and considerable real
estate in Rushsylvania, and Abbott concluded
that sooner or later the absent man would
communicate with his wife. All the relatives
and intimate friends of the couple were looked
up, and their mail was subjected to espion-
age, but in spite of this, as was afterward
learned, letters passed undecided between
husband and wife through the medium of a
nephew in neighboring town, a fictitious
name being used by the doctor.
Abbott waited patiently, and was finally re-
warded with the information that Mrs. Doren
was preparing for visit. The detective
dropped down from Cleveland, and was on
her track by the time she started The old
lady first went to the neighboring town of
Dawn, where she stopped two days and one
night with relatives. Then she gave out that
she was going over to Greenville, in Darke
county, to see friends, and thence, by another
route, home to Rushsylvania. But Abbott
was at the depot, and noticed that her trunk
was checked to Richmond, Ind He boarded
the train with her, arrived in Richmond early
the next morning. Mrs. Doren left her
trunk at the depot, and leisurely walked up
town. She stopped at private house in the
outskirts, and was there all that day and the
next night. The detective was kept wide
awake watching the trunk at the depot and
the house where the old lady stopped The
next morning she came down to the depot
and bought ticket for Indianapolis. There
she went away out on Meridian street, and
dwelt several days. Still no signs of Doctor
Doren
When Mrs. Doren returned to the depot
she bought ticket for Vincennes, on the
Wabash river. The detective followed, and
the two reached Vincennes at very early
hour in the morning. The trains were COM
ing and going on several railroads, and Alb
bolt was kept busy watching the old lady's
feints. Finally she stepped into the little
telegraph office and wrote despatch. The
detective also wrote despatch. He stood so
that he could look over her shoulder as she
addressed her message to OR. c.. Owen, Oh
ney, ILL.,, town down in Richland county.
saying, :" am coming" and signed it "Liz-
zie." The detective copied as she wrote
Then she went out and persuaded the bag
gage master to check her trunk to Olney with
out ticket. The train bearing the detective
and Mrs. Doren reached Olney after dark. 1t
was raining, and the old lady was received at
the depot by meek-looking old man, who
carried an umbrella and lantern. The de-
tective had never seen Doren, but he had a
photograph and description of him. Neither
in any particular resembled the man who
kissed Mrs. Doren as she stepped off the train
at Olney. The pair walked up town, and
Abbott easily traced them by the light of the
lantern. Olney, the county seat, is an old
fashioned town of small frame houses. Mrs.
Doren and her escort disappeared in modest
little house on the main street. The blinds