The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-11-22
HAWLEY-HtDDEK HAS
! CELL IN COUNTY JAIL
From Thursdays Daily.

sumo OlHeT NAMES mas proved her
self an adept at slipping over
"phony" checks on unsuspecting
people. viii Heinze of the Heinze
bakery and confectionery store re-
ported to the police last evening
that he had also fallen victim to
the woman's smooth work. Mr..
lieinZe states that Mrs. Hedden and
the baby came to his store on Sun
day evening about 9:15 and after
buying a light lunch, offered $25
check in payment. Mr.. Heinze says
that the lady had been in his store
several times in the past week and
that he mistook her for another
lady when he cashed the check for
her. Earlier in the evening, it will
be remembered, Mrs. Hedden sue
ceeded in having a check for SIS
cashed at the Ideal restaurant. This
was at supper time, and the lady
had only to wait until lunch time came
around. which happened about the
time the moving picture theatres
turn out their first crowd, for
another pay day. This check which
on the State Bank of Tex.
dlhdld, leAdS, DuI II was
bank check from the First National
bank Of Mankato. Mrs. Hedden had
crossed out the name of the Man.
kato bank and written in the name
of the Texas bank. She had made
the check payable to Mrs. John
Hawley, and it was supposed to have
been signed by John Hawley.
Mr.. HeinZe stated today that he
did not suspect that anything was
wrong with the check until last
evening when he picked up Il copy
of The Free Press and read the
story about HawleyHedden. He re.
called having cashed a check for a
woman who made out check pay
able to Mrs. John Hawley. He be-
gan to suspect that he had been
caught. The check was deposited
with others in a local bank and is
now on its way to Texarkana, but
it is doubtful if there are any funds
in the bank there to meet the
amount.
Cleaned, Up $61.SO. ~.'
Thus far, this record breaking pair
of check passers, Mr.. and Mrs. Her.
bert Hedden or whatever their names
might be, have taken just $3.50
out of Mankato. The first $3.50 was
paid by the young lady, with whom
Hedden pretended to be in love, for
the SIS check which was produced
in her presence and which the rascal
refused to pay, and the other $3.50
was for the kilograms. to and from
Shreveport, Ia, ascertaining that
Hedden had no funds there, SIS came
from H. F. Hildebrand of the Saul.
paugh hotel, SIS from the Ideal res.
taurant and the last $25 from the
Heinze candy kitchen.
1t was learned this morning from
one of the local hotel men that q
man who answers the description of
Herbert Hedden is wanted at Sike.
ston, Mo. G. A. Cooke, proprietor
of the Marshall hotel at that place
advises the public through the Ho.
tel World, that a man who register
ed as Charles Mentone obtained SITS
from him on bad paper few days
prior to the last issue of the above
mentioned periodical on October 90
1t will be remembered that Mrs.
Hedden told Mrs. Craig, with whom
she was rooming, that she and her
husband come from st. Louis. The
description of Mentone tallies with
the description of Hedden, even to
the item that he had an Elk's charm
and wore a ladies' diamond ring
Yet they may not be one and the
same person. The young lady with
wrom Hedden pretended to want to
marry told The Free Press that He'd.
den wore a diamond ring. ".-
Had Checks Galore. t
Mentone appeared at the Marshall
hotel and cashed two checks, agre.
eating SITS, purporting to have been
drawn by William Wrigeley Jr., and
company of Chicago. Mentone pro.
duced, letter heads, stationery. check
and advertising matter bearing the
name Of the Wrigeley. company The
man was described as follows, quite
dark, nose slightly prominent, dark
wavy hair, dark blue or black eyes, age
%, height five foot seven inches,
weight about $50 pounds. He car
ried an Elk's charm and wore a
lady's diamond ring. He was also
wanted at Cape Girardeau, Mo-, for
passing more bad paper on
August IA. ID.
1t was reported yesterday that He'd
den Hawley had persuaded the
North Mankato girl to whom he pro
fessed his love, to give up to him a
diamond ring which she possessed.
Investigation of the report is to the
effect that there was no foundation
for it's circulation. 1t is said that
Hedden-H awley managed to get hold
of one of her photographs.
J. p. Hawley, otherwise Herbert
Hedden, was arrested late yesterday
afternoon in Minneapolis by Detec.
tive Martinson and another plain
clothes man. The officers found him
i'm a cafe, and as they knew the
man, had no difficulty in locating
him and placing him under arrest
He was charged with trying to de-
fraud hotelkeeper in Mankato OF
a board bill. He was told that he
was to be taken to Mankato and
advised to telephone to his wife and
have her go with him, as she might
be of some help to him. He tried
to locate his wife over the tele-
phone but was unable to do So
Sheriff Osten advised the authorities
in Minneapolis yesterday to detain
Mrs. Hawley also, as when they
wired Mankato that Hawley was un,
der arrest, they said that they could
locate her il necessary, However, she
was not found Hawley told the of.
ficers that he had expected to meet
hiS wife at one of the hotels in