South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-08-17
Seifert Girl Faces Prison;
Clark Still Held at Warren
Girl Tells of Forging Check A r. Erskne II Describes
Other Events in Amazing Journey of Crime in Full
Confession TO Youngstown Police.

decided to 20 TO Buffalo. and stop
ped Off at Detroit 10 take a boat to
Buffalo.
While we were in Detroit. he
went 10 see an aunt and she shamed
him by asking about his wife and
new baby. and ne made up his mind
20 90 back home. He wanted 10
leave me IN a small city. where il
would be safer and where he could
come and visit me whenever he
wanted to. We went 10 Battle
Greek. but did not like II there. and
went TO Kalamazoo. He gave me a
list OF attorneys where l was 10 try
and get work. He wanted me 20
work for an attorney so that I could
learn law and help him out. He said
there was a poor business college In
Kalamazoo and that attorneys would
pay any price for a good stenO-
grapher. He gave me $50 and went
10 South Bend and found out from
that ne was wanted for taking me
away.
Il got a long distance call from
him from Niles telling me TO pack
and get ready TO leave and meet him
at the station l met him. but in
stead OF leaving Kalamazoo we went
TO a boarding house. He said that
when he got through talking TO me
I would be willing 10 do what he
asked He then told me they want
ed me TO come back to South Bend
and clear his name. OF course, this
made me angrv 10 think that he
would want me 20 lie 10 clear his
name, without any regard for my
own reputation, and / refused.
Bribed officer.
I'VE started for London, Ont,
(Can.) and got az far az Windsor
where we were taken off the train
by immigrant officers and told that
there was a warrant for US in Wind
sor and In Detroit. The immigrant
officer took us 20 the police station
where by crooked work Clark got
him TO let us go. They sent me back
on the train and he took Clark to
the ferry in a private auto. We met
at the station in Detroit and went
to Jackson, where the officer had
told US to go. He did not do any
thing in Jackson.
From there we went to Sandusky
where he got hold Of lot OF foun-
tain pens, two watches, a gold and
silver one. and lot OF microscopes
he sold in a hospital at Cleveland.
He came home one night with a lib
erty bond which he said he had got
at a loan company. When we oren-
ed II we found insurance papers
and other legal papers. which he
threw into the alley. He would al
ways leave me in the large cities
and go TO the smaller ores TO work
leaving in the morning and coming
back in the afternoon.
Gle went to Ravenna and got $50
from an office. He said he saw a
sign saying out, will return at 8
and he got into the office with a
key. We then left for Youngstown
and have been here ever since. To
the best OF my knowledge he did
not work In Youngstown, for he al
ways left in the morning and came
back in the afternoon. He had ny
perdermic syringe. which he bought
in Cleveland and the ether he got
in youngstown"
In answer to a question about
the narcotics he is alleged TO have
taken here she replied:
"AI I know about DOPE is that
he said he got il in a doctors office
and laughed and said that the doctor
would have to account for It. I re-
member IT was morphine lie bought
some cigarets with cork tips q was
with him) and took some Of the TO-
bacco out and powdered the NOR
phine and put it IN and put these
cigarets on one side OF his case and
the good ones on the other. saying
he was going to use it and see how
II worked. There was some other
kind which ne told mo was what
dentists used to deaden pain when
they extract teeth. I had a stick
pin a cameo with a store in it, I
don't know whether Il was a dia-
mond or not, and it has disappeared
guess he pawned It. When we
were arrested at Windsor the immi-
grafton officer took a gun and dagger
from him. The blackjack (found in
his grip after arrest at Warren) he
bought in Cleveland"