Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-06-10
ACCUSE WOMAN
OF PLOTTING TO
KILL HUSBAND
Held Under $4,000 Bail With
Wealthy Council Bluffs
Contractor.

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Ia, June 10.-John
Olson, As. Council Bluffs carpenter and
contractor, held at Fremont, Neb.. for
assault with intent to murder II. c.
Leuken, 10, wealthy retired farmer-..sf2
that place, early on May Il, is seeking to
obtain bond in the sum of $4,000 for
his release.
Mrs. Sophia Leuken. SO, wife of the In
tended victim, held on the same charge,
has her liberty on a $4,000 bond. fur
nished by the aged husband, whose
death. the state will try to show, she
planned with Olson.
Since the attempted murder, Mrs.
Leuken has been on the verge OF Q
physical collapse and was under actual
arrest until May 25, when she and Olson
waived preliminary hearing and were
bound over to the action Of the Dodge
county grand jury.
The husband. who received a bullet
wound just over the heart and another
in the right temple, is on the road to
recovery.
May did not do It," the aged spouse
says.
He does not know who his assailant
was.
Aroused from sleep shortly after
o'clock on the morning of May - he re-
members that young appearing" man
fred the shots at him.
Further than that he can give no clew
to his assailants identity.
Il had nothing to do with it." says
Olson.
OLSEN TELLS OF
MOVEMENTS.
Olsen admits that he was In Ere
mont the night preceding the attempt
upon Lueken's life
He said his daughter, who was n stu
dent at Midland college in Fremont, had
left a coat with a neighbor there.
He had failed to get it through tele-
phoned messages and went out personally
to recover It,
He failed again to get it. Olsen says he
registered ct the Davenport hotel, using
the name Of Knudsen.
In explanation Olsen declared that he
thought this was all right and it was
"nobody's business"
He returned to Council Bluffs on the
$50 train the next morning, he said.
Police say there is nothing to the coat
story.
On the night preceding the assault,
Mrs. Lueken is said to have received a
telephone CALI from several friends
whom she said were coming to stay al
night.
She asked Lueken to sleep downstairs
that night, which was not his usual Gus
tom.
She told him she would stay all night
at the home of a neighbor
Later in the evening a neighbor who
was playing cards in the Lueken hosca
declared that she told him she had re-
ceived another call and that the friends
were not coming.
Police state that Mrs. Lueken later told
them that the story about the friends
coming to stay all night was fake.
They state Mrs. Lueken did not stay
over night at the home of a neigh
Dor.
Mrs. Lueken came home at o'clock
the next morning, according to her story,
and awakened her husband.
She declared she made coffee for both.
telling him she was going to Omaha on
the $50 train to do some shopping.
STARTED FOR OMAHA
WITH So IN PURSE. sgs
This is the train Olsen is said to have
returned home on. Soon after her de-
parture the assault was made upon Leu
ken.
Returning home that evening she
learned of the attempted murder.
Mrs. Lueken admits she had only So
when she started for Omaha.
County Attorney Joseph c. Cook of
Dodge county set to work upon the case
and with the sheriff visited Council Bluffs
for an investigation of Olsen.
1t developed the latter was under bond
here for more than $4,000, on a charge
of giving a worthless check for building
material.
Police claim he told creditors he could
get the money, which was due the next
day, by a trip to Nebraska.
Olsen was arrested and taken to Ere
mont.
Olsen denied being at the Lueken home
in Fremont
So also did Mrs. Lueken.
Police there, however, say the woman
told others he had been there.
After the shooting Lueken rushed 49,.
nearby house in his night clothes.
He was taken to a hospital.
Upon becoming rational he begged for
his will, which was made in the Office of
an Omaha attorney in January last, and
which left everything to his wife.
When it was brought he tore it up.
The Luekens were married forty years
ago. when the wife was only 10.
She ia his second wife.
Olsen has a family IN Council RiuGA
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