Evening star., 1923-01-19
SAYS T|MEKEEPER
FLED u. S. SLEUTHS
Henry Jones Says Tegger-
strom Told Him He Was
Going to Leave.
BOTHERED BY DETECTIVES
Witness Declares Missing Man
Wished to Conceal His
Identity.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
BASTROP. La. January 19.-Henry
Jones of near Bastrop, employed by
the Southern Carbon Company at
Spyker, was interrogated concerning
the disappearance of Harold Tegger-
strom, timekeeper at the plant. who
was reported to have been kidnaped
and later to have escaped from his
captors, at the open hearing into the
activities of masked men in More
house parish today.
did you know Harold Teeger-
strom?"
Feared u. s. Detectives.
Yes; he left the plant on a Fri
day night, and he came to my house
on sunday evening. / was on the
pack porch when l heard some one
In the house. / found Teegerstrom
In the front He said he was being
bothered a great deal by United
states detectives at the plant about
the kidnapping. He said that on Fri
DAY night man called him out of
the office and told him he wanted to
talk 10 him. The man took him to
an automobile which he said had
several men inside, and he grew
suspicious and broke away and ran.
Ihat is the reason he gave me for
hiding out. He changed clothes, put
on my hat, shoes and overcoat to
change his identity, and left in two
hours
Have you received anything from
him."
Yes. got my watch which 1 loaned
hlm because his watch had his initial
on 1t. 1t came in the mail. Before he
left he gave me his watch TO be sent
TO his brother and some keys to be
sent TO the carbon plant"
1t appeared to you he was trying to
make his getaway and was trying to
shield his identity %
That's right"
Believes TeeEerstrOm Safe.
Jones said Teegerstrom left his
clothes at his home, but they later
disappeared. ana he assumed Teeger-
Strom had returned during the ah
sence OF his wife and himself at a pic
tuTe show in Bastrop and got them.
RMS was week ago last SATURDAY.
after the hearing had begun. he said.
Asked If he knew where Teeger-
strom now Is, Jones said he did not
know. but thought the missing man
was ''al right"
Where was the watch mailed
FROM"
Somewhere in the United States
was written on the box above three
January s.
Did you lend him some money!
back"
William J. Mcdonald. sixty. brother
in-law of J. L. Mcdaniel, father of Watt
Daniel, who with T. + Richard was
kidnapped near here August 81, and
whose mutilated bodies were found in
Lake La F'ourche last month. testt-
fed today that Jap" Jones had told
him the whole Daniel family" would
be cleaned out" before the alleged at
tempt TO assassinate DR.. b. NJ McKoin
was settled
Company u, . machine gun com
pahy OF the Louisiana National
Guard, which has been on duty here
In connection with the Morehouse in
NcSugation, broke camp today pre-
paratory to leaving this afternoon
Tor New Orleans, its home station.
Cavalry Troop Remains.
With the departure of the unit the
military forces in Morehouse will
consist of four automatic rifemen
and forty members of the Jennings
cavalry troop. half here and the re-
mainder at Mer Rouge.
1t is understood no more troops
Monroe infantry company of 100 men
is only an hour and half away,
while units at other points could be
brought here on short notice. Four
companies We're on duty in the parish
at the inauguration of the open
hearing.
Mcdonald said Jones did not know
he was related to the Daniel family
and that after he became aware of il
he asked him to forget il.
Jones said We are going TO clean
out the whole damned Daniel family
before this thing is settled He did
not seem to realize that l was related
to the Daniel family. L called his
hand and he told me I needn't get so
had about it. l told him DIR. Nick DIN
was never shot at" Mcdonald said
do you know anything about the
kidnaping?"
knew 1t Hour Beforehand.
"Yes, sir. knew it an hour before
if happened. You see, was in Bonita
at the time. You could hear all about
it, except they didn't figure out the
right parties kidnapped"
Lets have some more of what you
heard"
We'll, after the kidnapping Jim
Harp and / got to talking in his
butcher shop about the kidnapping and
he told me they should have killed
them the night they caught Daniel,
Andrews and Neelis on the Gallon
road and they would not have had any
more trouble with them" (The Gal
lion road kidnapping occurred August
10
Jim Harp told you that?"
YES, let it be known to him how
much 1 approved of it and / added a
few other words to make it more bind
ing"