The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-07-30
How Hooe Was
Lost and Found
EvADEs DETECTIVES ~ MONT
CLAIR ANp DISAPPEARS FOR
TWO wHoLE MoNTas,

CLAIR AND DISAPPEARS FOR
TWO WaoLE MONTHS,
PITT sBtiRG Jsils
forces iii the EIart1e iiTorce case spent
esterday in prepa ratory 20 ,sflS
tsTing rpon tie bait Of tlistrI
bitter legal warfare this week NE
1aftie spent The day At n =, 81
her rents and chfl dfent and
Mary Louise Helen and Ititl Scott
AS usual attend seEyic In the East
Liberty Presby terian church IN ne
morning &.
sInteresting Diet Ais were slea armed ~ ess
.terday regarding the loss and recoye
{of Cliford Hooe by Perkins detec-
tiyesi on October 20. the day after
which he had made his original depo5
sition, Hooe started from the East
Liberty railroad station for Mont
clair. N. j. Two detectives, 1iberal1g
supplied with money, were assigned
to follow him wherever he went-Sto
accompany him abroad II necessary
They were specifically instructed how
ever, not to enter into an acquaintS
anceship with him and had no l1nowl.
edge Of what Hooe was suspected OF
having done.
These two dete ctfves reached Mont
clair with Hooe and kept watch over
him for several days, when they were
Joined by Detective Ray Of the Per
kins bureau, who advised that an ac-
quaintance -be formed with 7Hooe.
Soon after this, the Muntclair po-
lice, who had been looking for he
perpetrators of number Of robberiesj
in that vicinity, became suspicious OF.
Hooe and his white companions and
followed them about. They were
about ito be arrested when the real
robbers were located, and on this same
day the detectives took Hooe in the
Orange county hillsides on hunt
ing expedition.
It was this day that John L. Wet
shons. as he himself testified, went
to Montclair to look for Hooe and
spent several hours driving about
with a negress, Hooe'g cousin, look-
ing for him. He left word that Hooe
meet him in the st. Denis MOTEL in
New York city.
When the. detectives were return.
| ing with Hooe they left the train a.
Newark, N. j.. to meet Gilbert B: Per
Ains, who was leftFto return to Mont
clair alone. He received Welshons'
message and hastened to the St Den
lis hotel AMI from there to Baltimore
When the detectives returned to Mont
E,clair the bird had tiown-yanishoi /.
From that day in November until
January 81 of this year. when Hooe
was arrested in East Liverpool, Ohio.
score Of detectives sought the whols
country vainly. for clifford Hooe. De.
tectives were sent 10 points in almost
a dozen states on wild runors. Some
went to Virginia, where Hooe's broth,
er is studying for the ministry, but
failed to find any trace Of him.
Watch Mrs. .llooe's Trunk.
Finally word was received that Mrs.
Hooe had given up her employment
lin a local club and mad packed her
trunk preparatory for, departure. Ds-
tectives were assigned to watch the
trunk. AS 1t left the house they fol,
lowed it through the streets to the
railroad station and three Of them sat.
upon 1t. They got or! the train with
1t and escorted the trunk to East IlY-
erpoo1, where Hooe was arrested at
the station.
Hooe was taken in custody at .
o'clock in Intervening on January 81,
just two hours after Augustus Hartle'
had filed his bill of particulars in the
famous divorce suit. This is said 10
have been merely aGremarkable coin!
cidence, but friends of the libellant
contend that the arrest was purposcif
delayed until the bill of particulars
had been fled.
Much speculation was aroused Is
to why the detectives left the Pitts
burg and Lake Erie train at Beaver
to take the FIT. Wayne road ami
Rochester when returning with their
prisoner, leaving Mrs. Hooe to con.
tinue alone over the original road. II
is said that the purpose was to give
detectives opportunity to trace her
movements after she reached Pitts.
burg and according to John L. Wei
shons' testimony, she went to his.
store and informed him of her hus-i
bands arrest.
When d. 4. Watson Left.
1t was after Hooe was captured and
made. his confession to the Perkins
detectives that David T. Watson, the
famous lawyer and senior member OF,
the firm of Watson g Freeman, left
for Europe. believing the crisis i'm the,
case to have passed and leaving the.