Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-07-05
CLEARS ELVER
Of CHARGE And
CASE DROPPED

Dismissal yesterday in municipal
court at Madison of the action against
Elmore T.. Elver, charged with lar
ceny as bailee, was followed by issu-
ance to the press of a statement that
explains the case as growing out Of
misunderstanding between the de-
! fendant and S. e. Beers, who was
complainant.
Statement by MIR. Elver
| S. /. Hoover was arrested on the
27th day of December, 1915, under the
/, confidence game statute, charged
with fraudulently obtaining note
, from John Walters of Oregon, Wis.
Elmore IT, Elver appeared as his
! attorney in this case, and from then
on until the 18th day of February,
1917. Several adjournments of the
case were taken. While this case was
pending, several checks which Hoover
had written without having money on
deposit in the banks upon which the
same were written, were brought into
| the municipal court of Dane county.
Among other complaints were three
! checks, one for $125 of Prairie du Sac,
upon which a warrant was issued
: against Hoover in Sank county, and
two others at Spring Green, Wis One
was known as the Marcus check and
the other a check given to the State
bank of Spring Green. Warrants were
issued for the arrest of Hoover on
! these two checks.
| Some time prior to February Ii, r.
+, P. Christman, marshal at Spring
!, Green, Wis, went to Madison with
| the warrants, but Hoover was not re-
i turned to Sank county at that time.
| Christman went back to Madison on
| February Is, 1917, with the warrants,
! insisting on his arrest and threaten
+! ing to take him back to Baraboo. At
the same time warrant had been
issued on the $125 check and was in
the hands of the sheriff for Dane coun-
ty, with instructions to make the ar
rest At that time Hoover represent
ed to Elver that he had deposited to
his (Elver's) credit at the Kilbourn
| State bank at Milwaukee, Wis, the
sum of five hundred dollars, and re-
quested him to make arrangements
to take care Of the outstanding checks.
AS result Elver went to his bank,
the Merchants. e Savings bank of
Madison, Wis, who telephoned to the
Kilbourn bank and were advised that
| it was there and that it would be sent
+, to Madison on Elver's credit. On the
strength of that representation, Elver
on the 18th day of February drew
check for F. P. Christman in the sum
/ of $8327, paid the Marcus check and
the State bank check of Spring Green,
also the check to John T. King in the
sum of $4,000 to pay two checks
known as the Krehl and Isbener
checks, which were held by the n1u-
nicipal court. A check of 1886 to
! Messrs. Gilbert & Ella to take care Of
check issued to the Kentzler-Horst-
meier Co. of this city (Madison1, a
personal check to S. L Hoover in the
sum of five dollars and on the fol-
| lowing day a check for $1,000 to
Frank c. Meyer at Lancaster, Wis.
Before the checks cleared it was
discovered that the $500 check de-
posted to the credit of Elver at Mil
| waukee was fraudulent AND no
money could be realized on the same.
Hoover returned to Milwaukee on
February IA, or the evening OF Febru-'
airy 10, and remained there for few
days, when he returned at the request
of his attorney. At that time he saw
S. E. Beers and made arrangements
to borrow some money from him to
take care of outstanding checks. AS
a result Beers loaned him $240, TAX
ing back as security bill of sale of
certain live stock at Eagle, Wis,
which Hoover represented that he
owned, and which it turned out later
that he did not, and that the bill of
sale was fraudulent.
The King check, the Christman
check and the Hoover check were
paid, the Meyer check was cancelled
and the Gilbert & Ella check re-
NAMED in circulation. Thereafter
Hoover's bondsman surrendered him
in Dane county to the authorities OF
Dane county, where he has been in
Jail since. The Prairie du Sac
check, from which warrant is now
in the hands of the sheriff of Dane
county, was temporarily taken care
of by an agreement between Hoov-
er's attorney, Elver, and James Hill,
district attorney Of Sank county, on
an understanding that as soon as
sufficient money was raised to take
care of the checks, together with
costs, that the same must be paid,
or in the event that there was not
sufficient money that after the Wal
ters case was disposed of Hoover was
to be surrendered to the authorities
of Sank county.
On the goth day Of February, the