The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-11-15
ISSUE WARRANT TODAY
FOR HEDDEN AND WIFE
Both Wanted On Fraud arge;
Officers Have
WOMAN CHECK ALSO
n an Il
Restaurant Man Says Paper Does Not
Look Good to Him; Minneapolis
Police Story.
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+ TELEGRAM TO CHEF j, w.
j. DONAHUE.

- DONAF1O z.
% +
I. Minneapolis, November 49, :!
i Chief of Police Dorahue: Have +
+ p. j. HawIey under arrest. +
+ We can arrest wife if want +
+ ed. Please advse.-M. MeaIey, +
+ chief of police. +
i This telegram was received +
+ late this afternoon. Chief Dom +
+ ahue will cause Mrs. Haw- +
+ Iey's arrest. They will be
+ brought to Mankato tomorrow. +
+ I. 1. + + !. 1. + + + I. + + + +
Since the disappearance yes
terday morning of Mrs. Herbert
Hedden, wife of the man who
is wanted here for issuing
check on bank in which he had
no funds, and who made futile
attempt to replenish his depleted
| capital by pretending that he want
| ed to marry a certain young lady
of this city and asking her father
| to sign a worthless $500 draft with
him, and even going so far as to
write a check, with no funds to
back it up, in payment for a SITS
| engagement ring, it has developed
that Hedden's wife seems to be as
| good as her husband when it comes
| to passing what is thought to be
| bad paper. She appeared in the
| Ideal restaurant Sunday evening and
presented check for SIS on the
Little River County Bank of Ash
down, Ark, in payment for her sup
per. The name of John Handy,
| which name her husband had used
in obtaining SIS from the Saulpaugh
| hotel on phony order, was signed
to the check also and Mrs. Hedden
said that this was her husbands
name. She said that he was
travelling man, in the employ of the
Interstate Auto company of Mime
apolis. Mr.. Smith, proprietor of the
Ideal, cashed the check. He depos-
tied the paper Monday in a local
bank. After reading the stories in
the local papers of Herbert Hedcen
and his attempt to obtain money
by fraudulent representation from
the National Bank of Commerce, he
Immediately suspected that the check
cashed by this mans wife in his
restaurant was no better than the
one which Hedden had presented at
the bank. Mr.. Smith withdrew the
check Immediately from the bank
He has not sent it to Ashdown to
find out whether or not IT would be
honored by the Little River Coun-
ty bank, but he says that after what
has transplred the check does not
look good to MIN
Mr.. Smith said that Mrs. Hedden
had come to his place for meals
occasionally during the past week,
sometimes with the baby and some
times without j. She did not seem
very conversational but did nothing
to arouse suspicion Mr.. Smith stat
ed TO-DAY that Mrs, Hedden appear
ed to be .quieh refined lady and
the baby became a taVorlte with
everyone IN the restaurant
Drove Out OF Town.
1t has also. developed that in lcav-
ing the city yesterday MRS. Hedden
engaged livery rig and drove to
Benning where she took the Mil
waukee train for Minneapolis, The
train passes Benning at 1920 a. M.
She appeared at J. Il, Macbeth's liv-
cry barn shortly after seven O'Clock
in the morning and wanted rig
| brought round TO the postoffice at
| eight O'Clock. She met the livery
man there at the appointed hour
and asked to be driven to Stone.
| When near Bennmg, which is less
| than a mile from Stone, she learned
/ from the driver that the Milwaukee
railroad does MOI run through that
place and accordingly was let out
at Benning, where she waited for
the 1920 Milwaukee train for Min
neapolls. 1t was thought yesterday
that she had taken the 7:25 North
western train from this city, but the
ticket agent did not remember see
ing her or selling her a ticket. 1t
was not expected that she would
try to escape under cover as there
was no charge brought against her.
| Woman Was Not Talkative.