The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-24
LIFE threatened,
JAEDICKE'S WIFE
CALLS HIM Home!
Mysterious Advertisement APP
pears in Kansas City Papers.
Detectives Think Missing Kan
sas Bankers Wife Wrote 1t.
RECEIVED ANONYMOUS THREAT
Mrs. Jaedicke Fears for Life of
Self and Children.
Victim of DefaIcatiOns Be-
Iieved to Have Sent Note.
LETTERS POUR IN FROM BANKER
Instructions to Employees Come
From All Parts of u. s.
Sent to Friends and Remailed,
Theory of Officers.
Mrs. Jaedicke Fears for Life of
Self and Children.
Victim of DefalcatiOns Be-
Iieved to Have Sent Note.
LETTERS POUR IN FROM BANKER
Instructions to Employees Come
From All Parts of U. s.
Sent to Friends and Remailed,
Theory of Officers.

From the east. west, the north and
the south letters arrive almost daily at
Hanover from August Jaedicke, Jr.,
defaulting and missing bank president,
according to state bank officials.
one day a letter to a bank employe
will be received from Jaedicke with
the postmark of an Oregon city, ex-
planning some detail of the business
which state officials under the direc-
tion of Walter f. Wilson, state bank
commissioner, are endeaVoring to
straighten out.
The next day another letter will ar
rive at the Hanover bank from Jae-
dicke with a Great Lakes postmark-
Maybe the next day a letter. also con-
cerning the muddled business of the
bank, will arrive from New York City.
And the next day letter from Texas.
Has Friends Mail Them?
Examination of these letters by de-
tectives searching the country for
Jaedfcke. who was last seen at Bea-
Nrice. Neb., the day on which the bank
closed it's doors. and he jumped coat
less and hatless into his car and drove
10 Beatrice. shows that each letter has
been folded. The theory held by tf-
ficers is that JaedicFe is located at
some point and sends these letters to
friends living at the towns bearing
these postmarks.
Enclosed in his letter to his friend.
officers believe, Jaedicke requests
that the letter addressed to officials
at the Hanover bank be mailed. 1t
would be impossible for Jaedicke to be
in all the places from where his signed
letters are mailed in the short interval
of time elapsing between the mailing
OF the communications, officers state.
Mysterious Advertisement.
Another puzzling angle to the dis
appearance was an advertisement
found in Kansas City newspapers by
detectives working on the case. The
advertisement appearing among the
August: Why don't you come
home to us. How would you like to
have thirteen2 Gertrude"
Gertrude is the given name of
Jaedicke's wife. Discovery of the ad-
verusement created much discussion
by officers working on the case. Ad-
hitting that it might be addressed to
some one other than Jaedicke. Off
GERS were inclined. however, to believe
that it was either the desperate effort
of his young wife to bring him back to
Hanover to face his misdeeds or it
might be a tip" of some kind for him
from a friend.
Mrs. Jacdicke Is Threatened.
An anonymous threat to kill
Jaedickes widow and children known
to have been received last week by
Mrs. Jaedicke strengthened the belief
of officers that the advertisement was
a call by the frenzied wife for her
missing husband. Officers today ex-
pressed their determination to discover
the author of the advertisement
The threat is supposed to have been
written by some man at Hanover made
penniless in night by the defalcations
of Jaedicke. The best detective agen-
cies in the country are working on the
case.
II was stated today that the constant
receipt of these letters from Jaedicke,
each one throwing additional light on
the muddled affairs of the bank, was
looked upon as an indication that he
contemplates returning to Hanover
and surrendering to officers.