The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-12
CUPID'S ARROW
FELLED BANKER
August Jaedicke Caught Be-
cause of Nephew's Bride.
Love Prevented Hanover CASH
Ter From Leaving q. S.
HE'S HAPPY IN CELL TODAY
Party VIII Leave Shreveport for
Kansas Tomorrow.
Job in Battery Station Kept
Him From Flight South.
Especial to The State JournaI.)

Especial to The State JournaL)
Alexandria, La, July 12.-Cupid's ar
row shot straight into the affairs Of
August Jaedicke. It spoiled plans for a
seemingly easy escape into Central
America, and resulted in the capture
of the Hanover banker on charges Of
| embezzlement. And it was not Jae-
dicke's Cupid at all, but that of his
nephew. Victor Messall, now sole pro-
prietor of a battery sales agency and
service here. The senior partner is
| in jail, and has waived eXtradi don
back to Kansas, but he is relieved and
happy, he said, after last night IN a
sultry cell in the local Jail.
Jaedicke's sister, Mrs. w. R. Mes
sail, who arrived here late last night,
was responsible for the transformation
and cheer in the prisoner who before
her coming was crestfallen and dis
consulate. There in the cramped cor
ridor of the Jail. with his sister, her
son and the recent bride of that son.
a romance was revealed, a romance
that had tangled the affairs of the
/ absconding banker, a tangle that even
a keen operative admitted had brought
about the arrest.
| It was sitting in the Jail at night,
but Jaedicke seemed happier. the jailer
said, than any other moment since
his arrival. But the romance, or
rather the setting the romance burst
throuh.
/ Jaedicke's Trail.
Leaving Hanover. May 81, Jaedicke
abandoned his motor car, then went
north thru Beatrice. Neb., to st. Paul
and Minneapolis. He had less than
| $1,000 in travellers checks, payable to
Sam Jones, he said. His Wife's father
posted some money. not more than
1900 in st. Paul bank and Jae-
dicke's diamonds.
Leaving the north he made towards
the Mexican border. thru Houston and
San Antonio. At the border passports
bothered him and he abandoned the
Mexican idea. He wrote his wife, his
sister and her husband. Knowing his
nephew, a boy of about "a and ap-
parently foot1oose, was in Shreveport.
Jaedicke, worn, travel stained and
clothed in heavy raiment, came to
Shreveport
Victor Messall. the nephew. had OBJ
tanned employment in a Shreveport
bank. Jaedicke found him in Shreve-
port. also where his sister and her
husband were and they were all loyal.
He and Victor would obtain some
funds and go to Central America, Jae-
dicke thought. But Victor was a
bridegroom He had married a Jop-
lin girl, about the time Jaedicke left
Hanover.
stayed With His Bride.
| All met. Immediately Jaedicke called
off the proposed jaunt. Stay here.
land make a good living for your bride.
| III go it alone"
! But Jaedicke did not quite go 1t
alone.
quietly he stayed two weeks in
! Shreveport, working as a checker in
a freight depot. He stayed in Victor's S
apartments. In the afternoons Jaed-
| icke would take long walks. writing
| his wife from obscure stations, Victor
or his mother addressing and mailing
4 them. Thru the bank Victor learned
of the battery agency. Previously
Jaedicke had talked with his relatives
! of his surrender and return to Han
1 over.
Z can't return now." he would say
/ to his relatives THE money is gone
and I haven't it and can't get it, but
some day I can straighten it all out"
In the battery agency was a chance,
a chance for Victor, chance for him
sself.
Connie Collins. sheriff of Washing
ton county, Kansas. arrived late last
night The party will leave Shreves-
port Tuesday, arriving in Kansas City
Wednesday morning at 8 o'clock.