The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1921-04-07
COUSIN HARDING
HOME Is RA|DED.
Photographs of President Seized
by Secret Service Men.
FRIENDS MAY HAVE TO PAY
Railroad Officials In an Effort to Col
Ieet $1,99s25 for Private Car
Used for Trip to See the
Inauguration.

Chicago, April 5,--Federal agents
raided the home Of Everett Harding
self-styied cousin and assistant sec
rotary to the President" now impris-
oned in the county jail at Woodstock,
Ill.
1t was said that 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 u kins-
man. and the Presidents signature.
The signature will be submitted to
experts in an effort to prove whether
or not it is authentic.
Search for the - persons who ac-
companied 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-
quired to make good the $1,000 eX-
pense incurred through the charter of
a private car for the party via the
Pennsylvania road, it was said.
Mother Depends on President.
At the Harding home Mrs, Ephraim
Harding, Eyeretts mother, is still firm
in her belief that the family is related
to that of the President and that
President Harding will soon send a
telegram righting everything.
Mrs. Ephraim Harding, mother of
the alleged pretender, declared that
Everett has been ill in body and
mind for four years.
"He should be under a doctors sur
veillance," she said
The records of the municipal court
show that, on June !, 1920, young
Harding was adjudged Il victim of de
mentia praecoX katakIonia. At that
time he was in the midst of his work"
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 enthusil
assn" Everett Harding is twenty
eight years old
Mrs. Harding produced a letted to
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 ana 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.
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 Koehne,
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-
mcrous "duns," the photographer took
the bull by the horns and wrote to
the President. More than $1,000 was
due, Captain Porter said.