Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-01-07
WATERLOO MAN SIGNED BROTH.
ER.lN.LAW's NAME TO "a.
LOON DOCUMENT.
LIQUOR pEALERs
CAUSE MANS ARREST
Accused Later cenfsssss 20 Forgery
and Declares Hs Told Brothsr.in.
Victory Thru NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Element Still Claim to Have Won.

arrested Saturday night for forging the
the saloon petition, was transferred to
the county Jail 70 await examination
by the grand jury. Heding was unable
to obtain bond for $500. He was ar
raigned at II o'clock Saturday night
before Police Judge j. H. Myers but
waived his right to a preliminary hear
! ing.
The arrest of the confessed forger
is the result of an investigation by
the saloon men. Hart, whose name
was forged, visited the temperance
headquarters and made an assertion
to this fact. Hearing of the reported
forgery attorneys for the liquor deal
ers association looked into the mat
ter. Harris name was found signed
to the petition as was also Hedins, S
and when confronted by the charge
that he had forged his relatives sig
nature Heding admitted he was gull
ty.
Yesterday the solicitor who circu-
lated the petition in his precinct was
brought in to see him. He denied
that the agent for the liquor dealers
had asked him to sign his brother-in-
laws name or that the man knew he
was committing forgery. He said
he had told Hart that he had signed
his (Hart's) name and Hart later at
irmed this statement. Why he had
done so Heding would not say.
He will remain a prisoner IN the
county Jail until the February term
Of court unless friends furnish his
bond of $500 which so far he has been
unable to secure. Heding resides at
IA West First. He has been employed
for the last two months as inspector
by the Iowa Dairy Separator COM
pany.
"Drys" Claim Victory.
Rev. W. F. Spry, pastor OF First
NJ. E. church. Sunday morning called
attention to the saloon petition sit
uation. claiming that the petition
would be invalidated by Withdrawals
alone if the rate Of securing with
drawals of names in the next twenty
days were to be maintained on the
basis Of the number secured in the
past fifteen days. With reference to
his statements concerning alleged
forgeries upon the petition, he called
ATTENTION TO the arrest on SATURDAY
night Of a signer accused of forg-
ing his brother FLAWS name. Mr..
Spry stated that the temperance peo-
pie were not disclosing their case
against the petition al this time, but
that they would when the canvass
began on Jan. 30.
From another source. in the ranks
of the temperance people, it was re-
ported today that the "drys' are cou-
fident that the petition will be found
insufficient after the canvass. This
prediction was made on the ground
of the number CT Withdrawals being
secured. irregularities and alleged
forgeries.
"A careful scrutiny of the present
petition a temperance worker is re-
ported as saying, shows it to con-
tain as many irregularities as the
previous petition"
Saloon Men Claim Victory.
On the other hand. the vets" ex-
press confidence in the sueficiency Of
the petition. claiming that the ma
jority of names is so large that the
margin can not be wiped away by
Withdrawals and that the petition was
carefully and regularly compiled.
Both sides are generally reservins
their Ammunition for the final bat
tie when the supervisors meet as a
| canvassing board, Thursday. Jan. 80