The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-06-27
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Homer Dean Now in Jail at
Charles ton for Embez
rlent at Sutton.
q &. Z e.

culture ndintelligence, is wait
on the call of the courts,
strainfng and erst the black cloud of
crime gA week age the big jour
SnaIsSof the Midwest were smear
across the first page in pic
sture8 and Bprose, making him In
fanipusIy ss famous. Today he is
just8oneS scores huddled in the
place of horrors.
His name58i is Homer H. Dean.
and orgeightsyears he had been a
ugitfYe from justice. And he is
happ ieri one may take his
word for t--s-in ] his squalor than
as in his home with his wife
and baby: NoIonger is he in fear
being caught. He is caught.
Eight years ago he was prom
inent citizen Of Sutton, the largest
:sgsssst own insBraxton County He was
Is cashier and yice-president OF a
ssbank One evening he disappear.
Observation-Disclosures night. the. word
went around thatshe had taken all
y hat SonceSfued the Golfers of the
an The bank ceased to exist
hen an d there. Hundreds lost
5SaYery do1lar8in the world. Even
Dean fortune of $4,000 was
one The octupus they call spec
alton had sucked him down.
hat happened in 914. Now
Dean returns to West Virginia
ths d eclarations of innocence
and q relief He was arrested in
Cincinnati recently in the office Of
iaSSconceIn where his rise to
sec ond success had been rapid.
t'sareally a great relief. The
II s7 sstr al has been terrible even
though I9fe1t had completely
& nix my old identity and that
was SAT Niy arrest was a great
me. 1 am now ready to
@5face the charges
I'D lean was indicted in 1914 on
ssssst the charge Of violating the ma
I'll On al Banking law in connection
xvi thu $4,000 shortage of the
bank IS funds
ms Columbus shis wife, known
Mrs Henry d. Holt, the name
assume fsSby i'm after his flight
ON sutton, awaits what may
Com They have 2-year-old
daughter They will be the ones
sts:NHh viii suffer more than | Dean
SssaId
3ea d, sun Ter the name of Holt.
sssectIfeff posi- ton with an alum
ssfnun company sortly after his de-
emit declare, and Travelled for
f hsSconcern In various parts of the
country Three years ago he was
4gsila district sales manager with
in Columbus where
heSestab1ished a home His arrest
was mao esins the Cincinnati office
70 the@concer by Deputy United
States Marshal Thomas Donovan
land special agents of the Depart
fSment ofJustice. He was arraigned
before&Uniteds States Commission
Gregory and held under
$4,000 bond. His removal to
harles ton. where the indictment
Was9returned&aga him, follow
ed the next day.
b d oflowing his arrest, adj
United thatS4he had assumed the
name of&HoIt, but refused to dis
g5cuss the charges against him eX-
sscep tSto@de ny that%he had commit
Jed anySacrime or had embeZZled
the funds5of the bank.
EhenSIlefts home in 1914
ssafdaDean 81 Twas panic-strlcken,
and8shou1dE not have done so, as
snow believe that had I stayed>1
could have won a victory in the
courts. The charges all arose in
INSTRUMENTATION of two banks
The charge of EN- bezzlement is
mot true, as j am ready to prove.
1sWhen left home all I had was
SIS O (which my wife had saved.
Everything else I had was mort
gaged to the bank, and ] lost
about IS 5,000,.in the crash. I
went to $ thes Oklahoma wheat
Sfields, where % arrived with 90
cents. obtained g position with
"a threshingcr crew and earned $50
besides myfs.board in two weeks.
This work5Ras too hard, and I
ware fromsfhe firm have been
with ever SINCE and pedd1ed it
from house to house
The business appealed to me.
and putsmySwholeS heart and soul
sfnto i became so interested
sthat failed to worry about the
sindictments. T worked my way up
wit the firm and finally was
transferred to Indianapolis Later
came to Ohiosand had my office
in&Cincinnati While in Indian
sapoIs I$sent for my wife. Later,
when i was made state represen-l
nentsin G Columbus, where she now
thSmy 2-year-old baby. Nat
aIraIiy always felt apprehensive
about being arrested. That was
dastEBecember.A brother of mine,
who lives III Akron, received a
Telegram signed with my other
brother's5na asking for meet
Ing In Canton The brother
brought the telegram to me in
ssCoIum bus, and after studying 1t
6I was assured my brother had not
written it, and did not go to
Canton. Later it proved my bro
stler knew a othinS of the 3tele-
gram.
have not end eavored TO hide
4or conceal myself in any other
ysthan to alter my name. My
real name IS Homer Holt Dean,
land when left home in 1914 I
reversed t and became n. D. Holt.
81 also changed the manner OF
combing hair, but have been
recognfzed and spoken to several
times by persons from West Vir-l