The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-01-28
DECEIVED
SEVERAL
OMEN
He Promisedto to MarryAII
OF Them and Secured
Money From Them

Kansas City. Jan. 2S-Charles e.
Nord, formerly Kansas City real
estate dealer. has been placed In the
county Jail here on a charge of pass
ing worthless check. He was ar
rested In Omaha on q warrant sworn
out by a local grocer. Following his
return to Kansas City, the police seiz-
ed Nord's trunk, and In 1t found sev-
eral hundred letters from women in
various parts Of the country. These
letters, which were made public last
night Invariably refer to Nord In
terms Of endearment generally speak
of coming marriage, and in each
case mention loans Of money alleged
to have been made by the writer's to
Eord.
The letters disclosed the following
signatures among others:
Jean Ida Bell, Haileybury, Ont:
Jane, 1928 Irwin street. Pittsburg";
Mrs. Ida NJ. Stern. 5519 Madison Ave
nue.. Chicago; Miss Anna Heerhold.
PASS North Forty-fourth street, Irving
Park Chicago" and Mary L. Berry,
Savannah. Ills"
One writer pleaded with the man to
sell his office furniture in Buffalo and
come TO her and marry her. Another
letter read:
I'VE will be happy when we are
married, but, Charles. If YOU expect
to keep my confidence, You must
square yourself In regard to that
check" The same writer in another
letter said: 'I Just received notice
from the First National bank saying
that the note for 81. 900 was due April
18th and must be paid"
Still another writer says: Forum
ately. dear boy, have the loan at
hand that YOU ask or course, YOU
hate to ask me for it, but / am only
too glad TO do you the favor"
MY own dearie." writes another, II
was so sorry that my brokers told me
that money was so hard to get they
could not accommodate me with the
$4,000 you asked me for. We could
live, she added. ION the 500 montn
of mine until you got on your feet"
Later the same writer penned this:
You will please send the ten dollars
at, once or / shall be compelled TO
bring suit
One letter signed 'Iodad" from CHI,
huahua, Mexico. says:
LAS for your picture (no matter
what may Gomez | shall never part
with 1t while I have breath OF life,
and even after life it shall go with me
TO one last place"
The only other western writer so
far developed, signs herself as Ida
M, Kansas City" and speaks of a
loan made to Nord and OF failure 10
make him repay IL
Two letters, one from Stockholm,
Sweden. and the other from Mikkala,
Sweden, were signed Emma III
one of them. the writer says:
Unjust tell our parents Of our mar
riage.'
Astoria hotel. New York. spoke of the
writer as tho mother of the girl iE-
terested, and said: Il think it about
time / stepped In and attended 10
this very disgusting affair. You seem
to warn Miss Farquharson that you
wish TO make trouble. fail TO see
how you can do 1t"
Nord, in his coll here today. declsr-
ed he was innocent of any wrong.
I'm not worried and never promised
10 marry any woman" ne said. You
know how women are. Any time they
find you good fellow and you show
any liking Tor them. they think you'
are bent on marrying them. When Il
man knocks about the world, he's
bound to run into raft of them. l
met nearly all those women who wrote
to me in Chicago. 1 lived there sey-
en- years"
He said he could prove that he had
done no wrong.
Nord said he owned mine In North
west Quebec worth S150.000