Connecticut western news., 1912-01-11
CONFESSED FORGERS
 EXPECT PRISON TERMS
H. M Dearlng and Son Wreck
 ed Michigan Bank.

| Fl. M. Dear1ng and his son, Palmer M. Dearing, of Detroit, Mich, the Al oion bankers and confessed forgers, are in the Wayne county CNIich.) jail as federal prisoners.
 The grand jury is not in session at present, and it may be two months be- fore indictments can be returned.
 "It's Leavenworth prison for me, and .he sooner the better" said H. M. Dearing as he reached Detroit from Battle Creek with his son In custody of the United States marshal, Milo M Campbell. .. &
 Father and son had confessed for geries amounting to $1G5O0 that re- suited in the closing of the Albion Ma tional bank last Tuesday.
 "Is there any hope for the deposi- tors?' the cashier was asked.
 For an instant the man appeared on the verge of breaking down.
 "No; none at all," he replied.
 After the men were bound over to the federal grand jury at Detroit un- der $25, ,00O bonds each the proceedings In the commissioners office at Detroit were extended to give time for the preparation and signing of statements showing that the confessions were en- tirely voluntary.
 The two bankers came here volun- tarily from Albion and met Marshal Campbell and District Attorney Futile at Commissioner Clark's office.
 The senior Dearing is one of the old est and best known bankers of Michi- gan. Many bankers of prominence re- member him as one of the leading bankers back in the days when they were just entering their careers.
 That "there couldn't be anything wrong about the old man. was an ex- pression frequently heard when the forgeries were first reported. -..
 The younger Dearing probably will bear the brunt of whatever punish ment is placed upon the two men. The father, who is seventy-three years of age, is so feeble that it is not believed he could live through a prison sen tence. *..@.a. I Even if the United States circuit court should let them off with $5.OOO fines neither could pay the fines. They are practically penniless. 4 .. o~r, John McNamara, alias ~ Australia Mac" was
 arrested in New York HAPPENINGS. in connection with the theft of $375,000 in gold and negotia- ble paper from the New Westminster (B. O branch of the Bank of Montreal on Sept. 15 last. He was taken before l Chief Magistrate McAdoo in the Tombs court of New York and held in $15,OOO bail for examination on Thursday next.
 The Earl of Tankerville, holder of one of the most honorable titles in the English peerage, is at the Holland 1 House after a trip to Boston, where he placed his son and heir, Lord Ossul- ton, fourteen years old, in a private I school. Among his Boston comrades his youthful lordship will be known I simply as Charles Bonnet, which is his name, shorn of the honorary title.
 Frank Hollaway, thirty-two years old, who is also known under different names, made statement to the police 1 of Chicago in which he confessed that he was concerned in two bank robber- ies, one at Panama and one at New Westminster, B. O., in which $375, 1000 was stolen. He also said he was want ed for two murders and for many rob- berries in Oklahoma.
 In order to attend the wedding of his youngest daughter, Charles Kay ser, a miner, travelled by horseback 1,4OO miles from Candelaria, New. to Denver. Adolph Kurtz travelled 5000 miles from Rio Janeiro, Brazil, to meet Miss Kayser. his bride to be. and Miss Kayser travelled from Neva- da to Denver, over 1000 miles by rail
 Joseph Bruecker, who will attempt to cross the Atlantic in the dirigible balloon Suchard, is making trials near Berlin before sending her to the start ing point at Tenerife. MT. Bruecker said that the only chance for an air ship to cross the ocean now was to se- cure the help of a northeast trade wind
 T Frank Smith, while at the Holmes
 Lurg Junction station of Philadelphia.
 on the Pennsylvania railroad, dropped
 a cigar on the railroad tracks just as
 an express train approached. He stoop-
 ed to pick the cigar up and was run
 down before other persons on the plat [ form could rescue him.
 The striking extra men who assist , the regular salaried committee stenog raphers of the house announced that they would "stay struck" and their , places have been filled The trouble was over the reduction of their pay. Senator Lorimer of Illinois testified under oath for the first time since the senate ordered an investigation of his election. Judge Hanecy, his, counsel t let the senator tell his story in his own way.
 Andrew Carnegie telegraphed Repre- sentative A. O. Stanley of Kentucky
 that he would be present as a witnes! = hnfOra tho hOuSa steel invastioa fiji