The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1913-11-13
MAYNARD SON
o. L. Wicks in Lake County Jail
to Be Taken to Iowa
for Embezzlement

MIR. and Mrs. Wicks of Eagle Grove,
Iowa, were in the city yesterday to as
sist their son, o. L. Wicks, recently
agent of the Milwaukee company at
Junius, who has been confined in the
county Jail the past several days,
charged with embezzlement. The
affairs of young Wicks at Junius were
settled up by an uncle, Albert Trusty,
a farmer residing near Arteeian. Mr..
and Mrs. Wicks and Mr.. Trusty de-
parted by the west train last even
ing for the home of the latter.
o. L. Wicks who is a young man of
"a years, Is still confined in the county
jail, charged with carrying concealed
weapons, but really awaiting the ar
rival of officers from Hampton, Iowa,
to take him there where he is wanted
for EN- bezzlement by the Minneapolis
and st. Louis railway company, hav-
ing been in their employ as depot
agent. The amount embezzled from
the Minneapolis and st. Louis com
pany is $500.
Young Wicks, it seems, has had
several escapades of the nature for
which he is now in Jail. Heretofore
his parents have come to his rescue and
settled his embellishments, but this
time they have decided to let the law
take its course. so far as the Iowa case
is concerned, and the young man will
be returned to that state, tried and
sent to the state prison.
MIR. aud Mrs. Wicks, parents Of the
young man, are fine people. Mr..
Wicks, the father being employed a q
locomotive engineer on the North
western road out Of Eagle Grove,
Iowa, where they reside. The grief OF
the mother when she met her son yes.
terday when he was brought from the
jail to the sheriff's office was pitiful.
The father of the young man, talk.
ing with The Daily Leader yesterday,
charged all of his sons shortcomings
up to whisky-and a woman, a mar
ried woman who is childless. When
his sen was attending school, the
father relates, this woman gained an
influence over him and often enticed
him to her home. The woman was
| inclined to the use of liquors and
provided the ~schoolboy with liquor
in her home. Try as they would the
| parents were unable to break off the
unnatural association of schoolboy and
childless married woman.
The association continues until this
day, and il was letters from this
| woman which were found in the
young mans possession when he was
searched, after his arrest, ia the county
Jail. AS the boy came into manhood
he and the woman travelled together az
vaudeville performers, their trips ex-
tending as far away from home al Tex.
as while the woman's husband re-
manned in their home town in Iowa,
employed as a machinist.
The young mans association with
this woman was a strong factor in
the negotiations with his parents yes
terday in settling his embezzlement
difficulties in Iowa. They insisted
that he forever cut loose from his para
mour, which he evasively declined to
do. 1t had been a thorn between them
for years and the parents saw that they
were not even now, away from their
home and the son a Jail inmate. able
to break up the unnatural alliance.
And after hours of pleading of an al
most heart broken mother and promises
by the father of a brighter future fo1
his hayward son IL he would reform
all without effect--th weeping mothe
and the grief racked father left thei
son to his fate.