The Omaha morning bee., 1924-06-20
Fund
Bobs Up to Help
Cirl-Bride-Forger
Dorothy Miller La Rue May
Be Paroled to Girls Home
When Checks Are
Made Good.


a-day of Gene La Rue, who has been
IN the city detention home for two
months on charges of forgery, is en-
titled to restitution rights, according
to her attorney, and an effort will be
made to place her in the Good Shep-
herd Home for Girls for two years,
instead of in the state penitentiary.
Paul I. Manhart. the attorney.
after many efforts to secure funds
from relatives for bond or to take up
the forged checks, was notified by
and Omaha bank that $3.50 was put
to his account recently.
No knowledge has been obtained
as to who placed the money in the
bank. The girls brother, Frank
Miller, wrote her attorney from
Cristobal. Canal Zone, that he was
Unable to furnish funds. Her sister,
Mrs. c. Hickey of Milwaukee, was
also unable to send any money.
Hopes To Clear Debts.
With the $3.50 in the bank, the at
torney offered to pay the charge of
S175 filed as debt through the
forged check by Burgess-Nash COM
pany. With this action he hoped to
secure clear all outstanding debts.
The large sum that Dorothy
forged in checks signed by Art Ned
row, farmer of Stella, Neb., whom
she Is said to have promised to
marry, has not been enumerated in
charges against her. When Nedrow
was questioned py Dorothy's attor
ney. he declared that he would never
file charges and would never appear
in court against her, unless forced
to do so.
"'I would never harm the kid" he
told the attorney. "I thought lots
of her.
New Charges Hinted
But when Judge Fitzgerald con-
suited the county attorneys office as
to parole. Dan Gross, assistant coun-
ty attorney, stated that Harric-Goar
company had expressed desire to file
charges against her for alleged
forgery of check for $3.50 against the
company. Additional charges would
prevent parole of Dorothy to the
home.
Annulment Of the marriage, which
will cost s25. is also sought. Harris
Goar company had already filed petit
ton in Falls City, Neb.. against the
State bank of Stellar for payment of
the $3.50 check which the bank had
stated was good at time of payment.
Relatives of Dorothy are bringing
pressure to bear on her attorney for
her release from the detention home.
La Rue's second wife Is employed
at the Herman Kiefer hospital at
Detroit. according to word received
here. There is a child by this mar
riage. six this old. A picture that
resembled - Rue, that of Rod La
ROGUE. the motion picture actor, was
sent to Omaha police by the second
wife.
Resemblance Won Dorothy
La Rue won the heart of Dorothy
Miller La Rue, his third wife. by his
resemblance to La Rocque
Dorothy was ADOPTED by the Man
hart family in Panama, Ia, when she
was 3, said her attorney. With her
sister, then 7. she was brought to
that town for adoption. The family
that had planned to adopt Dorothy
failed to do SO. and to prevent the
little girl being returned to an in
stitution in Davenport, Ia, the Man
hart boys kept her at their home.
They became so attached to Dorothy
that she became their ward
Met Nedrow at Auburn.
She was brought up the family as
a sister. educated at an academy in
Kansas and later too a nurses train
ing course. While performing her
duties as nurse at Auburn, Neb., Art
Nedrow fell in love with her.
Dorothy has promised her attorney
IL she is placed in the Good Shepherd
home instead Of the penitentiary she
will reform. The case against her is
her first offense. She was a minor
when arrested. She celebrated her
18th birthday in the detention home
on June 10.