Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-05-29
GREEN IS HELD TO JURY
MOOSE ORGANIZER CHARGED
WITH ASSAULTING GIRL.
Young Woman Ayers That Blackmail
Was Object of the Aged
Defendant.

w. S. Green, chief organizer for
the Moose, and who spent several
months last summer in Dallas, charg-
ed with contributing to the delin-
quency of Marian Hoffman, seven
-year-old girl from Pendleton, has
been held to the grand jury at Port
land, where the arrest was made.
Green, who is 68 years old, set forth
the claim that he took the girl to
educate. The preliminary hearing at
tracted much attention, and the court
room was filled to overfowing by cur
ious men and women, necessitating
moving to other quarters and contin-
uing the examination behind closed
doors. Of the case the Oregonian has
the following:
Father told me that l didn't need
a new hat, +" said the girl in one part
of her testimony.
"Who do you mean by "father7"
queried Deputy District Attorney
Deich.
"Why, Mr.. Green" said the girl,
looking at the prisoner. ~ always
called him father''
The remarks came within a moment
after she had told of his alleged con-
tribution to her delinquency. The
girl only slipped once on the name,
the other times referring to the pris-
oner as "Mr Green" but when
Green was called in his own defense
he frequently referred to himself as
4" father" to the girl. She testified
at one point that the alleged assault
took place in the Imperial Hotel,
March 10, and remarked that she left
her hat there.
"W,here is your hat now?" asked
Seneca Fouts, Green's lawyer.
"It's still there. You might find
it for me, but I guess it out of
style now, anyway, replied the girl.
She met Mr. Green, she said, at
Pendledon, where he introduced him
self to her at a public dining-room,
saying that he knew her sister, Jes-
sic. With him in the dining-room
was woman whom Marian described
as "pretty tall, and she has three
She reiterated charges made
before to District Attorney Evans
that Green brought her to Portland
to levy blackmail upon prominent
young men.
''At one time,'' she said ~ was
sitting talking in the Imperial Hotel
with Bert Brown, and when "'father"
same along he asked me who was the
nan with whom l was talking and
whether he had money. l said: ooh,
you can't do anything with him, he s
! married man, "That is the kind
If a man to go after; they have mon
"" he replied"
~ heard later that he had got 5000
rom Billy Swaggert in settlement of
me suit, and 1 wanted some of it,
Jut my friends told me that l would
lot get any of it," she testified.
ireen swore that this was not true.
Her visit to the Friars' Club and
'ther places about town came when
Mrs. Green, wife OF the defendant,
ocked her out of the hotel room
where they lived, she said.
E. P. Bodley, organizer for the
military rank of the Moose lodge, and
!. C. Stuart testified as to Green's
haracter, after Green had entered a
'eneral denial of the girls story and
aid that he was acting as a father
o her. On their promise to produce
i'm in court Green was released by
Judge Stevenson on his own recog-
lizance.
Green organized the local Moose
Ddge, with some 300 members, num-
er of whom reside at Falls City and
Slack Rock. He also organized the
lodge with a large
While here it was init
1ated that some of his dealings were
ot what they should have been.