Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-11-14
SENSATIONS DEVELOP IN CASE
NEARING TRIAL At IOWA
CITY.
WEALTHY WOMAN ACCUSED
OF DEcElviN0 OFFICERS
Finding Of Miss Clark, Wanted az Wit.
ness In kimbaIl Disbarment Suit
srinss Out Allegations That shs
Has Been Kept a Prisoner and
WronsfuIIy Charged With Being In
sane.
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Special to Times Republican.
Iowa City. Nov. 14.--Iowa City is in
the throes OF one Of the most sensa-
tional criminal cases ever recorded
here. The basis thereof is the return
Of Miss Anna b. Clark
Miss Clark has been missing since
April. She was employed in Daven-
port. after leaving here, and mysteri-
ously vanished. Attorney Franklin B.
Kimball referee in bankruptcy in the
United States court at Iowa City, was
the defendant in a disbarment pro-
ceeding. then new in court. now ap-
preaching hearing. Miss Clark, who
was principal witness in the case and
in other cases involving alleged fraudu
lent efforts, successful and otherwise,
to secure judgments in the district
court, was badly wanted here, but she
suddenly vanished
Woman Spirited Away.
Now 1t is alleged she has been prac-
tically prisoner in several Chicago
hospitals; in a sanatorium at Mil
waukee; private house in a Chicago
suburb: in the Van Buren, hotel and
in the family of the brother of woman
doctor Of Chicago-the latter place of
seclusion being at Vicksburg, about
twenty-t three miles from Kalamazoo,
Mich
She was detained as crazy woman;
false names being given; wilfully wrong
mistatements as to her condition and
habits: and she was otherwise kept in
near-custody. thru false representa-
tons to doctors and nurses. The states
attorneys here do not charge the Chi
cago or Milwaukee institutions with
crime. 1t is believed they were de.
ceived Indeed, one Chicago nurse and
one Milwaukee doctor became suspici-
Gus and wrote TO Judge Howell. Of
the local court. thus putting the state
on Miss Clarks track.
Wealthy Woman Arrested.
Miss Emma R. Ricord. daughter Of
the late Jacob .Ricord. a pioneer post
master and mayor. Of Iowa City, is
badly involved in the case. 1t is
charged that she committed perjury,
after assisting in spiriting Miss Clark
away from one institution to another,
by swearing that she knew nothing OF
the young woman or her whereabouts.
Miss Ricord was arrested under that
charge. Thursday, and must give a
bond of SIS or go to jail. 1t Is prob
able that she will secure bond.
Miss Ricord is well known. and has
smaans. Miss Ricord testified that she
Is engaged in charity work. and that
zhA has sent at least Eve Iowa City
girls to Chicago, during the past seven
Fmenths or so, for attention In hospitals,
when they were unhappily In i'll health.
Miss Clark. it is alleged, was told
t. To- r. 80,
for perjury, and that II she made her
whereabouts known, she would be sent
to the penitentiary This threat, plus
her succeeded in keeping Miss Clark in
about that day. until this week.
In the meantime, the courts Of John
son county, detectives. police officers,
sheriffs, attorneys and others have
hunted vainly.
The woman doctor at Chicago tells
OF receiving money. accompanied by a
type written. unsigned note, in a plain
envelope. from Iowa City time and
again for her services. or the care Of
Miss Clark, but she so far states she
doesn't know whence 1t came.
The woman doctor"-and thus her
name is given by the states attorneys,
who refuse to divulge further facts
about hers a star in the case, If her
testimony can be secured. Her hus-
band declared to the detectives that he
knew nothing of her whereabouts, but
her 11-year-old boy betrayed her Sc
cret, and COMPOUNDED the husband by
testifying that "pa took mamma to the
station. to go to Michigan''-and thus
the final race to Kalamazoo and the
discovery of the missing woman came
about.