The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1895-04-20
W. A HOSHOR IN CUSTODY.
will BE Prosecuted by the West Chi.
cago Street Railway Co. I'm.
der Charges of Con.
spiracy and Lar
ceny.


was found last night in the custody
of a Mooney IL Boland detective,
with whom he had been spending
Il quiet day. Mrs. Hoshor, who dis
appeared from her home, 577 West
Congress street, Tuesday morning
soon after her husband left the
house, is understood to he an un-
willing guest in custody in one of
the downtown hotels.
On the table i'm the Office of Su-
perintennent Sutherland of the de-
tective agency last night lay a tin
box filed with papers, which At
torneys w. S. Forrest and Edmund
Furthman for the West Chicago
Street railway company said would
be evidence in Il prosecution of
Mr.. and Mrs. Hoshor on charges of
conspiracy and larceny.
The papers were taken from the
Office of the Northern Accident
Adjustment company, 1913 New
York Life building, of which COM
pany Mr.. Hoshor is manager.
They were made up chiefly ofsixty
files of evidence and private in
formation in damage cases against
the street railroad company, which
! Mr.. Forrest and Mr.. Furthman say
were stolen from the vaults of the
company. The rest were papers
that apparently belonged to Mr..
and Mrs. Hoshor, Joseph Hoshor
Of Buffalo, and Attorney John f.
Waters of this city.
THE STORY BEHIND IT ALL.
Hoshor for about two years and
until Oct. 81, 1891, was claim adj
juster for the West Chicago Street
railway company. AT that time
he was discharged, according to-
Mr.. Furthman, because it was be-
]ieved that his wife was soliciting
the prosecution of personal---very.
claims against the company. Some
time after his discharge the attor.
neys for the company discovered
that number of the files in per-
sonalinjury cases were missing
from the Office. These files con-
tanned the only means of defense
which the company possessed
such as the names of witnesses,
testimony and reports Of accidents.
Their value was estimated by the
company at a figure not lower than
100000, and possibly running into
The hundreds of thouands.
Last month number of personal
injury suits were fled or claims
made against the company by At
torney Waters, and in many of
them the files of the company were
missing from their vaults. Attor-
ney Forrest gave the list of claims
last night as: Charles Bartlett,
100000; Nels Nelson, 10000; Annie
III: Anderson, $4,000; John Brown,
$4,000; William McConley,$I5, 700;
Corinne e. Patterson, $4,000; Curt
is l.. Schafer, $4,000; J. f. Lipman,
$4,000; Julias Willinsky, $4,000;
Helen Planett, $4,000.
ANOTHER MATTER OF INQUIRY.
The officials of the company re-
membered that they had seen
Hoshor and Attorney Waters often
together, and decided to find out
what Hoshor had been doing since
his discharge. 1t was learned that
the company for which Hoshor was
manager made speciality of push
ing injury claims against the street
railroads. The detectives at work
on the case were convinced that
Hoshor always carried with him a
handbag in which were papers of
probably considerable value. The
plans were made. Tuesday morn
ing detective waited for him near
his house and arrested him block
from the place. Mrs. Hoshor was
living at 70 goth street, and after
finding her the detectives made a
search of her rooms. Nothing of
value in the case was found, and a
search-warrant for the Office of the
claim adjustment company was
taken out. Here the missing files
were found, and q large amount of
Hoshor's correspondence, together
with letter-press book.
SOME OF THE CoRREsPONDENCE.
In the letter-press book was the
copy of letter to Joseph Hoshor
of Buffalo, dated July Is, 1894. It
suggested to him the formation on
nm agency for pressing of claims
against railroad corporations, the
writer saying that he could get
valuable information in cases
against the street-car lines through
reports which came into his office.
There was a letter to A. Aikens, 27
Emmet street, signed "W. A. Hosh-
or" saying that the writer WAS in
possession of information which
was of personal moment to Mr..
Aikens and which might result in
the obtaining Of some money if
properly handled. The claim Of