The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-06-02
Supposed to Have Stolen and
Sold Valuable Document.
Mrs. George r. Hair Holds 30.
gus Paper for $500.
Efforts Made to Prevent Fugi.
tive Leaving Country.
From Thursdays Daily.


What appears to be a little worse
than anything yet charged against
Judge Ogle has come to light. From this
it would appear that he has added lar
ceny to forgery in his acts, and was
without any heart.
Mrs. Hair, wife of the late Rev.
George R. Hair, who was formerly pre-
siding elder of the Methodist church, re-
ceived $500 life insurance after her
husbands death, which with her lit
that she had. She loaned the money
to a young professional man of this
city, who gave her mortgage upon his
home for the amount. When Judge
Ogle heard of this he went to Mrs.
Hair several times and wanted to get
the handling of the money, suggesting
that if he had it he could so loan it
that she would not have to pay any
taxes. She replied that her husband
had never cheated the government and
she did not propose to do so. Finally
he pursuaded her to let him take the
money, on his assertion that everybody
evaded taxes when they could and that
it was perfectly proper.
H. Cd
gage, Sept. 25th, 1908, and received the
assignment of new mortgage made
out to the real or visionary Nellie G.
Gilbert that Mr.. Ogle used for such
purposes. Later, Mr.. Ogle visited her
home on the pretext that he wanted to
examine ner papers and see if they
were alright. She brought them out
and he looked at them and said that
there were others that he wanted to
see While she went into another room
for moment to look for others he
seemed to have satisfied himself, for
he remarked that he had found what he
was looking for and that it was all
right
Mrs Hair thought the circumstance
a strange one, but it soon passed out
of her mind, and not until the trouble
came up last week did she examine her
papers. Then she found that the note
and mortgage were gone. She had Mr..
Ogle's papers at his office gone over and
there were found a note and mortgage
and assignment in an envelope, marked
Hair papers" They were found to
be forgeries, although exact duplicates
of the genuine ones that Mrs. Hair had
possessed prior to Judge Ogle's mys-
FERROUS visit to her home last fall. This
is the story related by Mrs. Hair to
counsel whom she has engaged to see
what can be done to protect her in
terests.
The genuine mortgage and note have
turned up in the possession of the First
National bank, to which they were as
signed by ''Nellie G. Gilbert" Dec. 30th
last. The bank put them on record May
2Oth 1t is the supposition that Ogle
took the originals to his office, forged
the duplicates and left them there for
Mrs. Hair, and then sold the originals
to the bank.
A great deal of sympathy is felt for
Mrs. Hair, and it is felt that man
who would deliberately plot to rob
her of her all would do anything that
was bad.
In the case of the other widow lady
who seems to have been treated in the
same way by Mr.. Ogle, much the same
plan seems to have been followed. She
left her valuable papers in his office,
locked in a tin box. In order to have
gotten them, Ogle would have had to
nave picked the lock. When the lady
examined the contents of the box after
the disclosures she found that the orig
inal note and mortgage for 1000 were
gone and that forged duplicates were N
tnelT places, anu also tnaI Some mAAsnS
stock that she had was gone. The lat
ter has not been found. The original
note and bond appear to have been as
signed to the National bank of Com
merce, which now holds them.
Descriptions of Ogle have been sent
to the officers in the seaport towns of
the country and also to the larger cities
in this section. None of the officers
have left the city yet, as Ogle's where
abouts are unknown.