The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-03-27
SERIOUS CHARGE
AGAINST COUPLE
Water Power Employe ard Wife Of a
Local Man Arrested In Peoria
Charged With serious
offense.
WOMAN TOOK HER CHILD
Mrs. Grace HOFFMAN and Jack Dickey
Are Brought Back to keokuk
by keokuk Officers
Yesterday.

Officer William Wilson returned
last night from Peoria, where he took
charge of a couple of prisoners ar
rested by the Peoria police on COM
PLANT of the local department.
The pair arrested were Jack Dickey.
alias Wilson, and Mrs. Grace Hoo.-
man, wife of o. r. HOFFMAN, 14O7 Full
; ton street. The husband of the wo-
man accompanied the off1cer to Peo
ria and took the woman home, while
Dickey was lodged in the local sta
ton to answer to charge of aduI-
terry.
It is said that Dickey, who was
employed on the water power, had
roomed III the neighborhood in which
the Hootmans resided and took his
meals at their house This has been
the situation for several months. A
couple Of weeks ago Dickey left town
and is said to have gone to Hannibal.
He returned to Keokuk last Friday
|. but left Immediately going to Hanni-
bal, Quincy, Galesburg and finally to
Peoria.
A day or two after he left, Mrs.
HOFFMAN, with her two year old baby
| disappeared and the husband suspect
ed that the couple We're together. At.
ter trying to get clue to their
whereabouts, he finally communicated
with Chief Kenney, whom he told
that his wife had friends in Peoria.
Chief Kenny wrote to the chief at
Peoria with the result that the couple
| We're found in company and arrested
Tuesday evening.
Mrs. HOFFMAN has two children
one of whom she took with her. Hel
j husband is employed as timekeepel
! on the water power. She returned tt
her home with her husband last night
Dickey, or Wilson, was arraigned ii
superior court this morning on &
charge of adultery, committed on the
I, night Of March 10th and sworn to by
HOFFMAN. He denied that he was
4 guilty and was remanded to Jail III
/ default of $500 bond.
The following is from a Peoria
paper this morning: The sheriff Of
Keokuk, Iowa, returned to that city
! yesterday with Mrs Grace HOFFMAN
and John Dickey, where the pair are
wanted on charge of adultery. They
were apprehended Tuesday night BY
i Detectives Wilson and Darnell The
woman had 3-year-old boy with her
She told sad story to the police
when she was arrested She said thai
] her husband worked on the big gov
eminent dam at Keokuk. She had al
ways loved him until one day he
brought home with him, John Dickey
The man. Dickey, had told her hus
band that he did not have any home
| and out of commisseration the Coco
Samaritan invited him to share hi:
fireside.
I But the man proved to be most un
grateful He had not been in thu
house but a few weeks when he com
4 menced to pay attention to the wife
of his benefactor He won her love
and Influenced her to run away will
him and desert her husband and three
i babies. The mother consented, bu
! stipulated that she take the younges
child with her.
The pair arrived in this city in thu
early part Of the week. The husband
learned that they were headed thi
way and swore out warrant fo
their arrest on the charge Of adultery
The woman is young being only TWEEN
ty-four years old.