Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-06-06
WOMAN ACCUSED 0F PLOT T0 KILL
 SLEEPING HUBBY
He and Other Man in Case Say She's Inno-
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Council Bluffs, la, June 5.-John Olson, 45 years old, Council Bluffs carpenter and contractor, held at Ere mont, Neb., for assault with intent to murder H. c. Leuken, 70, wealthy re- tired farmer of that place, early on May 12, is seeking to obtain bond in the sum of S15,o00 for his release.
 Mrs. Sophia Lucken, 5e, wife of the intended victim, held OF the same cahrge, has her liberty on a S1C,000 bond, furnished by the aged hus- band, whose death, the state will seek to show, she tanned witph Ol- son.
 Since the attempted murder, Mrs. Lucken has been on the verge of a physical collapse and was under ac- tual arrest until May 25, when she and Olson waived preliminary hear ing and were bound over to the ac- t1on of the Dodge county grand jury. The husband, who received bullet wound just over the heart and an other in the right temle, is on the road to recovery
 May did not do it. the aged spouse says.
 He does not know who his as sailant was. Aroused from sleep shortly after 5 o'clock in the morn ing of May 12, he remembers that a young appearing" man fired the shots at him. Further than that he can give no clue to his assailants identity.
 q had nothing to do with it." says Olsen.
 Olsen Tells of Movements.
 Olsen admits that he was in Ere mont the night preceding the attempt upon Lueken's life. He says his daughter, who was a student at Mid land College in Fremont, had left a coat with a neighbor there. He had failed to get through telephoned mes sages and went out personally to re- cover it. He failed again to get it. Olsen says he registered at the Daven- port Hotel, using the name of Knud- sen. In explanation Olsen declared that he thought this was all right and was "nobody's business" He returned to Council Bluffs on the 5:3O train the next morning, he said. Police say there is nothing to the coat story.
 On the nigh preceding the assault Mrs. Lueken is said to have received telephone call" from several friends whom she said were coming to stay all night. She asked Lueken to sleeE downstairs that night, which was not his usual custom. She told him she would stay all night at the home oi a neighbor. Later in the evening, a neighbor who was playing cards in the Lueken home, declared that she told him she had received another call and that the friends were not coming Pc lice state that Mrs. Lueken later told them that the story about the friend; coming to stay all night was fake They state that Mrs. Lueken did not stay over night at the home of a neigf | bor.
 | Mrs. Lueken came home at o'clock the next morning, according to hel story, and awakened her husband She declared she made coffee for botf
 telling him she was going to Omaha on the 5:30 train to do some shoppinl This is the train Olsen is said to have
 returned home on. Soon after hel departure the assault was made up on Lueken. Returning home tha evening, she learned of the attempt
 ed murder. Mrs. Lueken admits tha she had only S6 when she startee for Omaha.
 i Worthless Cheek Charge | County Attorney Joseph c. Cook O. Dodge County set to work upon the case and with the sheriff, visited Council Bluffs for an investigation | of Olsen It developed that the lat
 ter was under bond here for more | than $2O00, on charge, of giving : | worthless check for building material
 Police claim that he told creditor:
 that he could get the money, whict | was due the next day, by trip t' | Nebraska Olsen was arrested ant
 taken to Fremont.
 Olsen denied being at the Lcker
 home in Fremont So also did Mrs
 Lueken. Police there, however, say that the woman told others that h'
 had been there. .x i After the shooting, Lueken rushed
 to nearby house in his night clothes | Hhe was taken to hospital. Upot | becoming rational he begged for his l will, which was made in the office ot | an Omaha attorney in January last | an which left everything to his wife l When it was brought, he tore it up | The Luekens were married 40 year | ago, when the wife was only l6 years of age. She is his second wife. Olsel I ID FEc