Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-05-28
COUNCIL BLUFFS CoNTRAc TOR
HELD FOR ASSAULT TO
COMMIT MURDER.
IN JAIL At FREMONT,
NEe., PENDING EOND
CircumstantiaI Evidence. However.
is All That is Available to Show
That He and Mrs. lucken Con-
spired to Make Way With Latter's
Aged Husband.

Speclal 10 IL tneS-hepuplicdh.
Council Bluffs. May oS.-Despite
the tragical features of the case at
Fremont, Neb., in which j. X. Olsen.
contractor of this city, has become
involved thru his indictment on d
charge of assault with intent to com
nit murder. there are many pathetic
phases of the wierd triangle. Olsen
is held in the Dodge county jail In
default of $4,000 bond, viii lie Mrs.
II. b. Lucken, the wife of the man
whom Olsen is Jointly charged with
Mrs. Lucken with having ccnspired
to make way with, continues 10
minister with apparent love ana
great care to the wound infiic ted up
on Lucken on the night of May IL
when he was shot as he lay in bed
Lucken. ~ wealthy retired pioneer
of Dodge county, Neb., is % years
old. His wife is 46. She is his
second wife. They We're married
when she was but l6 years of age.
olSen Is ~, anu has q wiz $3.50
family in this city, where he has
lived for many years and lately has
been successful as a building con-
tractor.
Calls For and Destroys win.
I.ucken was alone in the house on
the morning of May -, when he was
shot. one shot entered rear the
4, ht,Ilat SfruGk
him in the head. He managed to get
up, ran into the yard. and tell where
he was discovered by reighbors
Luckens first thought when he was
taken to hospital was for his Will,
which he eXcitedly called for, and
which he tore into shreds when 1t
was brought to him. The Will dis
posed of property worth approXi-'
mately 100000, and made his wife
sole heir. Lucken says ne saw the
man who shot him. and tie officers
say has given good desc ription OF
him.
The case against Olsen is purely
but Is declared by
County Attorney Cook ard Sheriff
Conditt. of Dodge county, to be I'M
assailable. They say they have
given out only small portion of the
facts of which they have knowledge,
and to which their fifty witnesses
will testify. They declare il involves
Olsen and Mrs. I.uchen in a CON
spiracy.
Registers Under Assumed Name.
When Olsen was arrested and
taken to Fremont he was questioned
in the presence of several officers
and reporters. Olsen tolt the group
gathered in the county attorneys
office that he became acquainted
with the Luckens when they lived
upon farm and he was doing car
penter work for them. He told of
Numerous acts OF the Luckens when
they. befriended them. Olsen ad-
mitted that he was in Fremont the
night Lucken was shot. md that he
sumed name. Hotel people say that
Olsen never returned to the hotel
after he had registered. Olsen's
story is that he went to Fremont to
secure coat belonging 10 his dausa-
ter, but people where the coat was
said to have been left say that Olsen
did not call there.
Lucken Furnishes Wife's Bail.
Mrs. Lucken, quest sned about her
movements that nigh4 said she LETT
home at 5: 80 for Omaha to do some
shopping. and that before she left
she took Mr.. Lucken his breakfast IN
bed. Mrs. Lucken, according to the
officers, became confused when ques
toned about a visit of a cousin from
California the afternoon of the 18th.
to whom, according tc the cousin
she told she could not ask him to
remain all night as three women
delegates to church convention
were to be her guests that night.
In another statement lirs. Lucken is
said to have told she ielephOned and
cancelled arrangements for the wom-
en- to remain with her. This state
ment was made to Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Sasse, who spent the eve
ming playing cards at the Lucken
home.
Lucken has often said; Mamma
did not do It," He furnished the
$4,000 bond for her appearance at
trial