Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-02

parents had 1ntrusteQ MIN 10 tne reIormaVory
energies of Oberlin, and no sooner had the
youth declared his sudden passion than,
without waiting for the sanction of the
Michigan parents, she hied to her fathers
home in Huron county and married him on
the instant.
ALL WAS FORGIVEN.
The young mans parents were at first OBJ
durate, but it was not long until the young
people were invited to dwell under their
roof. All went smoothly for some time.
The young husband seemed miracle Of re-
formatory zeal, and a place of trust in his
fathers bank was given him. But soon he
began again to find vice attractive, and one
morning while the wife had gone on visit
to her happy childhood's home in Huron
county, he was missing from the bank, and
so was $4,000 of the banks money.
A., 1t was supposed that Young Hester had
gone to his wife, but that young woman and
the Hesters professed such entire ignorance
of his whereabouts and such grief over his
sins that the detectives were led into other
paths of inquiry. After several weeks of
fruitless search, however, clew was given
them which led to the suspicion that the
fugitive was making efforts to have his wife
join him.
CAUGHT AS IN A TRAP.
On certain day the officers were in
Mansfield, where they suspected an appoint
ment had been made. Sure enough, Hester
and his daughter alighted from an omnibus
before the hotel, and in few minutes
single carriage drove up with one man in it.
The young woman made rush for the car
riage, but the officers were there first. Con-
siderable resistance to arrest was offered by
the young fellow, who was armed, and in
the excitement John Hester walked rapidly
out into the open country with portman-
teau in his hand. 1t was ascertained after
ward that Hester, who was then an old man,
walked, in that day and part of the next,
the entire distance that lay between Mans
field and his home in Huron county, about
40 miles.
The young man was taken back to Michi-
gan, tried and sentenced to term of years
in the penitentiary, but
NO TRACE OF THE MONEY
was found. Within a few months of his
Imprisonment he escaped from the peniten-
tiary with horsethief, who introduced him
into his line of business and into genteel
HOUSEKEEPING. After a few weeks of part
nership this precious pair of scamps, while
hiding one night in a swamp, fell into dis
pute over a valuable watch which belonged
to neither. In the struggle which followed
the young Michigander was stabbed to the
heart, and in the morning his body was
found by the officers in the swamp. The
l. af ftarr H. r
the watch, and was tried and hanged for
murder.
In the meantime warrants for John Hes
ter's arrest were sworn out but trial for
completely in the robbery proved nothing
against him, and he was released. Follow
ing this, suit was begun by the depositors of
the bank against Hester to recover their
property.
A PECULIAR BANKRUPT.
1t was at this juncture, and to save him
self from liability, that Hester filed his Pc
tition in bankruptcy. Investigation by the
Register of the Court showed that he was
not justified in bankruptcy, and the
petition was not granted. The suit
went on. A servant testified that
upon entering Unexpectedly the bed
chamber of the Hesters she had found the
old man and his wife engaged in counting
"great piles of money that completely COW
cred the bed" On being urged to give
closer estimate of the amount OF money, she
said that there was enough of it to fill
bushel measure"
The suit was closed bv Hester's being held
for the entire sum of $40, O0O He sold his
farms in Huron county, ostensibly to pay
the judgments, which he never wearied in
declaring to be most unjust. After paying
the money over to the authorities he dis
appeared utterly from sight. Rumor has it
that he died recently in the upper lake re-
gions of Michigan, but is silent as to what
became of his daughter.