The Cordova daily times., 1921-06-15
(By Associated Press)

continued yesterday until August 12 Mahoney is also suspected by the DO lice of having caused the death of his aged wife, Mrs. Kate M. Mahoney, formerly Mrs. Kate Keeler of Nome, to whom he was married in February. Mrs. Mahoney has been missing for several weeks and following up clues they unearthed, the police have had Lake Union dragged in an unsuccess- full attempt to recover he'd body.
 Mahoney was taken into custody when he presented an alleged forged order to open safety box rented by the missing woman.
 Mahoney, who is 38 years of age, told the police he left Seattle on April IS for St. Paul on a honey moon trip, two months after his marriage, and that he returned to Seattle, leaving St. Paul April 23, after a quarrel with his bride.
 In the meantime, other investiga- tors uncovered interesting details af- fecting the missing woman's proper ty in Seattle which, with property in Texas, Alaska and elsewhere in the state of Washington, is believed to represent a wealth of upwards of $2O0, 900.
 Mahoney, paroled from the state penitentiary at Walla Walla last December after serving two years of five to eight-year sentence for highway robbery, is held by the police, in default of $1O,OOO bail, on a first-degree forgery charge
 He said, through his attorney, that he was making every effort to find his wife, from whom he was separat- ed after a quarrel in St. Paul while on honeymoon trip, in mid-April He expected, he said, to meet her this month
 Details of Mahoneys actions since returning to. Seattle from the scene of the alleged quarrel with his bride in the St. Francis hotel, St. Paul, have been investigated and show, said the police, that he, his mother, Mrs. Nora Mahoney, and his sister, Mrs. Dolores Johnson, personally have been conducting apartment house and rooming house property owned by the missing bride in this city.
 This apartment house management and the alleged collection of rentals from other property of Kate M Ma honey, the aged bride-who is al legged to have left her fourth husband in huff two months after they were married-has been carried on through a power-of-attorney now on file in superior court here. 1 The authenticity of this instru- ment, says Deputy Prosecuting Attor- ney Theodore H. Patterson, has not been attacked as had been the miss ing wife's order on the w. D. Per kins safe deposit vault company, for which Mahoney stands charged with forgery
 N Mrs. Dolores Johnston, sister to the man held in jail, is conducting the New Baker rooming house at 2327 First avenue, a property owned by the missing woman, and Mrs. Nora Mahoney, the mother of the prisoner, is managing the Sophia apartments, two-story apartment house at 4O9 Denny Way owned jointly by the missing bride and her niece, Mrs. Kate Stewart, of Van- couver, B. c.
 Investigation is now in progress regarding the management of other property of Kate M. Mahoney, all of which, apparently, has been placed in the hands of her husband by the power-of-attorney in question. More than a dozen parcels of real estate here and elsewhere, it is assumed, are under the control of the husband now held in jail. Mrs Kate Stewart of Vancouver, niece of Kate M. Mahoney, and who, with her sister, living in Wenatchee, would have been the sole heirs of their aunt had she not married James B. Mahoney, last February, was in Seattle for some days recent ly.
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