The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-05-24
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Baker Potthoff Follows Mrs. TiIIie
Hewitt to Spokane.
AND soRELY PERsEcUTEs HER
The Lady Barber Finally Appeals to
the Police and Charges Potthoff
With Threatening to Stay and Kill
Her or Do Other Bodily Harm.

The woman mentioned in the fol-
lowing article from the Spokane
Chronicle, is a former resident of
this city, where she conducted a bar
Der shop A story of persecution
and threats, with all the usual incon-
veniences consequent upon such a
course of action, is what Mrs. Tillie
Hewitt has to tell the police and
which she alleges forms sufficient
grounds for the arrest of Theodore
A. Potthoff. This gentleman was
picked up this morning by Detective
McPhee and booked on the charge of
threatening to kill. He will be given
chance to tell his version of the
affair in the police court some time
in the near future
It appears from the complaining
witness relation of the difficulty that
Potthoff has been logging Mrs
Hewitt's footsteps for some time
past and that growing wroth at her
refusal to comply with his wishes, or
in fact to have anything to do with
him, has several times threatened to
do her bodily narm, or, in the Ian
guage of the complaint, ito do bodily
harm and to Stay and kill the said
Tillie Hewitt" Not once, but several
times, according to the complaint,
have these threats been made, and
the complaint alleges that she has
reasonable cause for believing they
would be carried into execution.
The complainant has been married
and has young daughter living with
her at the present time. She is a
newcomer in the city, having arrived
here from the east only short time
ago. Trouble between her and the
defendant is said to have started
some time ago and many miles from
Spokane, and Potthoff is alleged to
have followed the woman here for
the purpose of persecution. Com
plants were made to the ponce sew
eral days ago, but at that time, in
the opinion of Chief Witherspoon, no
grounds for the arrest had been Civ
en- by the man in the case. Yester-
day, however, the complainant again
appeared and the case having as
sumed more aggravating phase,
Prosecuting Attorney Kimball made
out a complaint against Potthoff on
the serious charge of threatening to
kill.
Detective McPhee picked the man
up this morning, who, when he was
booked, gave his nativity as German,
and stated he was a baker by trade.
His bonds were fixed at SA50 cash,
and that sum was deposited by the
accused forthwith and without any
apparent hesitation on his part. The
case will come up under Judge Ken
mans jurisdiction in the near future
Mrs. Tillie Hewett has been a resi-
dent of Kalispell for many years, and
while here conducted a barber shop
She secured a divorce from her hus-
band last fall and since that time
had been living on a ranch west OF
town. She has two children, a boy
and a girl. The former was married
short time ago and resides in Kal.
ispell The girl is with her mother
When Mrs. Hewett left Kalispell
about two months ago, she went to
Spokane, and afterward to Fernie
B. c., returning to the Washington
city. She is well known in this city
Theodore A. Potthoff is also a for
mer resident of Kalispell, where he
ran a bakery on Main street for sew
eral months. His place of business
was destroyed by the big fire, when
the corner of Main and First street
was swept away, and shortly after
ward left the city. While he
was noted for his many eccentric &C
tons, he always bore a good repu
tation here. In face and figure he is
anything but a ladies' man, and the
trouble between he and Tillie came
as a surprise to all who knew the
couple while in Kalispeh. 1t was moi
known here that he was favoring hel
with his attentions.
Special to the women of Kalispell