Oakes weekly Republican. (Oakes, Dickey County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1898, 1891-04-03
A PRETTY HOME.

in keeping with the deed, being a cosey,
neatly furnished home that showed
thriftiness and having every appear
ance OF being a happy domicile. The
cottage is surrounded by trees, and is
one Of two standing close together
about $50 feet from Front street. 1t
contains six rooms, none OF them
very large. The parlor in which Hop.
ping spoke his last words to his wife
is nicely furnished and potted plants,
plentifully sprinkled about the room,
give it q cheerful air. The bed cham
Der where Hopping shot himself is di-
rectly above this room at the head OF
the narrow stairway. This room
contained q bed, bureau, chairs and
q trunk, and, while plain, showed
marked neatness. Even after the
deed had been committed it showed
no signs OF disorder, there being no
blood stains except a small stain on
the carpet underneath the dead mans
head.
Hopping, until about year ago,
was q member of the police depart
ment and did duty as a mounted Off
Ger at Union Park. Getting into diff
Guilty he left the department. and be-
came a private detective, but this did
not bring about the desired results
and he finally gave it up. OF late he
he has not been engaged in active bust
ness, but doing quiet little specula
tive work. His friends and neighbors
all spoke highly OF him, and said he
had q quiet, peaceable disposition
which won him hosts OF friends. He
was @ tall man OF large physique and
had q pleasant face, which showed Il
kindly nature.
Behind it oil there may have been
something more serious as an incen-
tive to the desperate deed than q
mere complaint charging the ex-ofticer
with the larceny of S24 worth. That
Hopping had complications with
organizer @ 0 Of the the 'txtnsor extraordinarv av
st. Anthony hill force OF patrolmen,
is we'll ascertained from the records
of the city clerks office and OF the
district court. Won Arnold incurred
some heavy obligations in the agree
ments which he made with the men he
hired, promising each man nice new
uniform. and otherwise making him
self lis BILE for moneys, and gave a
chattel mortgage to Regina Roller,
wife of his partner in the detective
agency business. This mortgage WAS
assigned to one John Korta, and for
some reason, it is said, because the
first chattel mortgage bore usurious
rate o. interest, and might therefore
be considered void, another chattel
mortgage was given on the same prop
erty to Gustave Hopping. Proceed
ings in foreclosure under this last
mortgage was begun and stopped by
injunction, and Korta had receiver
appointed of Won Arnold's property
in the person OF Charles Relchow, a
deputy sheriff, who sold the property
at receivership sale week ago.
Then it seems that there was reason
to believe that all the mortgaged
property had not been secured, and
steps were taken to obtain it. Rel
chow went to look for it at Hopping's,
and Hopping told him that Won Arm
old had it, and Won Arnold being in
formed of the result of the search,
went to Hopping and was told that
it was in the stable, which he exam
ined and, found locked, Won Arnold
then swore to complaint charging
Hopping with the larceny of q harness
valued at $50 and a saddle valued at
81, and an officer went out on the
morning of the suicide to serve the
warrant. Hopping promised to come
morning OF his own accord and answer
the charge in the police court, and as
stated above, the desperate catastro.
phe occurred. The date OF the alleged
larceny was March IL. Inconnection
withthe missing mortgaged property