The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1911-12-08

While i'm Chicago Cohn told Hodges
all about his business, 50 Hodges
says, admitting that he had caused
both OF the stores to be burned. and
stating that Bloom had done the job
Tor him. He said, according to Hold
ges. that Jack" would do anything
for him; that IL he told Jack there
was a man in Tennessee who knew
him who would elbow" on him, Jack
would leave Chicago. and in few
days he would come back, but that
the Objectionable man would be out
Of the way, and no one would ever
know what had happened.
Continuing, Hodges claims to quote
Cohn as follows:
you remember when went to Gin
! cinnati and Cleveland to buy goods
for the store. Wsll, when you were
gone / packed iarge part Of the
stock and gave boy money to buy
tickets to Evansville. The boy had
Instructions to buy the tickets. then
pay the excess baggage rabs ON the
trunks, which he said were sample
trunks, and would get the stuff out
of Greensboro in that manner. have
forty-slx cases and thirteen trunks
of dry goods. all of which is worth
between $4,000 and $1,000. i've got
1t stoned in WAREHOUSES in Chicago,
, Omaha, Council Bluffs, South Omaha,
Lincoln, Neb., and South Haven. Mich.
4 Cohn wired for Hodges, SO Hodges
says, TO come to Chicago at the time
he told him of burning the stores, and
told hodges that he did not want
| him or ARTHUR Dinkeispiel to be in
, Ow5nsbono when the grand jury was
in session, as the grand jury might
get hold of them and cause trouble
Cohn told Hodges, according TO the
latter, that he did not even want him
to stay i'm Kentucky, but said that
he was going "A start store with
the goods that she had taken from
the Ohio Valley stock, and that if
Hodges would copsent to move to
the mountains in Tennessee he (Cdhn)
would give him the first $500 that
was taken in by the store that he
was going to start.
Z Fuuther along Hodges STORY D. a.
follows:
ITO show you what kind of fell
low Bloom is" said Cohn, 81 had a
number of these cas- Of dry goodss tor
ed i'm warehouse hers, and at that
time the police WINE keping a lookout
for the goods that were being stolcn
from thu different railroads. iwent
TO the warehouse one day and saw
three polio man Watching my stuff.
The wabchman gave me a Tip, and
finally l screwed UP courage enough
to pass them. They asked the watch
man II my name was not Cohn, and
ware told that 1t was, but L had dis
appeaned when they starsd looking
for me. saw Jack and told him
that was in trouble, but he laughed
at me.and said he would gst the goods
He did, too. He would cant this CASES
off thnee OF four at a thine, from
undsr the noses of the officers, and
he was naver caught"
Hodges told of the diffsrsnt times
that hs had been connectad with
Cohn, and sta ed that at the time
Of the organization of THE Morganfisld
store Cohn told him that he was going
TO give him $500 wSrth OF sock In
the company, and wanted him to BIZ
pr sdsnt of the stors.
Hodge continned:
AT one Tune when was working
4 for him he tod ma togo TO NASHVILLE
Chat anooga and AtAan.a 10 buy goods
asked wheat kind. and h. answered:
Buy sNeything that YOU cam
went into ONE who'll sale Store after
-ther In Ma hvilLe. and zach place
was asked ID was buying for the
Peoples Store of FultOn.. ! wonld
answer that l was. and chay would
bsll me of having sold quantities Of
goods to Ben Cohn.
The Fulton sbone was clos;d out
and the goods were shipped 'pche sioi
at Mcreanfield and the one at ovens
boro. Beffre tbs fine at Morganudeld
some OF the goods from that STORE
wlre shipped % Louisville and odtec
points. and bafore the fine at Owens
bono ann certain that there vera
$50 OF 200 empty shirt boxes and some
empty shoe boxes In the Ohio vahLay
Dry Goods Store"
On every hand and at evry turn,
according 10 the STORY told by hod-
ges, Cohn and his con6edgrnre, Bloom,
show the hRauds of masbgs In hhsda'
planning. plpitine and schaming.