The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-07-21
P. P. Apkins. Who Will Be
Charged with Forgery,
Corresponded with Women
All Over United States.
MOSTLY POOR GIRLS
VICTIMS OF APklNS
Man Is One of Most Peculiar
Prisoners County Has Ev-I
er Had--Love Letters Of
Apkins Are Read. :

Charged with forgery. P. p. Apkins.
the love making bigamist and bogus
check manipulation. arrested Wednes-
day evening by Chief Gormon. of tho
local police department. was arraign-
ed before Mayor Zimmerman in police
court this morning. He plead guilty
and was taken to the county Jail.
Prosecutor Ladd says he will be given
an opportunity to enter a plea Of gull
ty in circuit court whenever he
chooses. He is said to be anxious to
begin serving his sentence in the PEN
itentiary. The penalty for convic-
ton for forgery is an indeterminate
period of from to II years. His
bond is fixed at $4,000. The man is
not represented by an attorney.
The specific charge against Apkins
Is that he cashed a check for $ll.
written on blank OF the Second Ma
tional bank, signed E. H. Mason, and
made payable to himself. Since Ap-
kin's arrest, Gormon has been inyesti-
eating his past record. On Wednes-
day he cashed bad check in Con-
nersville. receiving $50 from Thomas
O'Brien. OF that city. 1t bore the
forged signature of e. Hensley. a
Richmond saloon keeper O'Brien al
SO keeps a saloon. At Connersville
Apkins did business under the name
of Fred Snyder. In Richmond last
May he also cashed checks for small
amounts with William Waking, a BIZ
cycle dealer. and with John Hewitt. q
restaurant keeper. Since his arrest
these crimes have come under the no.
tice of the police.
Long List Of Girls
The condition of Mrs. Elizabeth
Young Apkins,, the Nicklasville. Ky,
girl who Apkins married after being
married to Mrs. Bertha Kohler, OF
Richmond, is unknown to local police
Mr.. Gormon says he is investigating
and will probably communicate with
the authorities at Nicklasville. In q
letter among the papers of Apkins.
was found list of girls. on which
were checked 81 names, presumably
women with whom Apkins was cores
ponding with matrimonial intent An
swers to many matrimonial advertise
ments were found in his suit cases.
From his correspondence nothing
as to the purpose OF Apkins life can
be gained, excepting that he desired
to marry many women. Not only did
he subscribe for matrimonial bureau
publications but he has placed adver-
tisements in Denver, Toledo. India
napolis and Des Moines papers. where
personal notices are carried. His ad-
vertisement is usually inserted thus:
"Wanted-To correspond with poor
working girl or widow. One who
needs home and companion. OBJ
ject matrimony. Address Lock Boz
IS, Stegar, ILL.,"
| There is no other correspondence
excepting from Terre Haute liquor
firm, which contains some order
| blanks. e.-
Apkins, although he speaks five diff
1 q i
| Century Letter Writer" az form for
all his correspondence. He would
copy from the book deep sentiments
and lofty ideals, signing his name to
them. He seemed to have had no
| trouble in gaining the confidence of
| his victim.
| The most pathetic of the letters are
| from the Nicklasyilfe KY woman who
he married, then drugged. robbed and
abandoned. The letter in which she ac-
certs his proposal G. marriage in
ra-- reads:
A Pathetic Letter;
Eyes / will be your wife: it win be
the pride OF MY life TO shield you from
all eorrow and give You all the happi-
ness that there is In the world
1t will be grand to lear the sorrows Of
life together. 1t will make them seem
easier for both OF us VIII
We live in Richmond or Chicago?"
/ The following quotations are taken
from other letters received from girls
all over the east and middle west:
| Il love my steady, but oh you once
| in while. Come down and see me-"
This letter, from Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
| is signed IN j."
MY sweetest dreams are of you
fram Cambridge. Mass, girl
One from Petersburg, Va, signed,
yours in life and death, Lucie,. reads
in part: MY far off lover; received
your letter while | was sweeping the