Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1921-04-07
RAID COUSIN
HARDING HOME
Secret Service Operatives Seize
Photographs of the Presi-
dent in Chicago.
MRS. HARDING DEFENDS SON
Firm in Her Belief They Are Related
to White House occupants-Eve-
rett Adjudged Victim of De-
mentia Praecox katakionia.

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Chicago, April 5.-FederaL agents.
raided the home eff Everett Harding,
self-styled cousin and assistant sec
rotary to the President" now hmpi'is-
oned in the county jail at Woodstock,
III.
1t was said thai the agents sought
| particularly the photograph of Presi-
| dent Harding, known to- be in the pos
session of Everett Harding's family,
and which bears the supposed auto
graph, with best wishes to a kins-.
man." and the Presidents signature.
The signal IRE will be submitted TO
experts in an effort to prove whether
or not it is authentic.
| Search for the - persons who ac-
| compapied Everett A. Harding, self
styled cousin and assistant secretary
| to the President" on his trip TO the
Inauguration in Washington was be-
| gun here by secret service operatives.
The junketers will probably be re-
| CURED to make good the $1,000 eX-
pense incurred through the charter of
]
Pennsylvania road, it was said.
Mother Depends on President
AT the Harding homeeArs. Ephraim
| Harding, Everett's mother, is Still firm
| in her belief that the family is related
to that of the President and that
President Harding will soon send Il
telegram Fighting everything.
Mrs. Ephraim Harding, mother of
the alleged pretender, declared that
Everett has been i'll in body and
mind for four years"
"He should be under doctors sur
| veillance," she said.
| The records of the municipal court
| show that, on June 1, 1920, young
Harding was adjudged victim of de-
mentia praecox skataklonia. At that
| time he was in the midst of his "work"
1 in behalf of Cousin Warren"
The matter of the bad checks
passed by her son, Mrs. Harding re-
fers to as "unfortunate." She says
they were due to his "boyish enthusi-'
asm'' Everett Harding is twenty
eight years old.
Mrs. Harding produced letted t.
Everett signed by President Harding
while still a candidate. 1t was dated
April 1, 1920, and referred TO the
younger man as dear kinsman."
! Further it sets forth how the then
! Senator Harding appreciated" Ever
| ett's work in his behalf and spoke Of
a meeting in Indianapolis, the date
| for which was to be set later.
Quotes President Further.
Mrs Harding said that Everett him
self had letters in which President
Harding speaks in reference TO a po-
! sition for him as assistant to George
b. Christian, the Presidents private
secretary.
I Furthermore Mrs. Harding said.
| the then Senator Harding made the
first overtures that disclosed the re-
lationship between them.
According to Capt. Thomas |. Por
] ter, chief of the secret service here,
Everett Harding's arrest followed a
'last straw" in the form of bill to
the President from William Koehle
! photographer in the Monroe building.
| Koehne had been retained by
Everett Harding to take pictures Of
several affairs, Captain Porter said.
and had never been paid. After nu-
merous "duns," the photographer took
the bull by the horns and wrote TO
the President More than 81 1000 was
due, Captain Porter said.