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Brought Against MarkTownship MantaildeshertoadjonDooflivlt;IS BOUND OVER TO COMMONPLEAS COURT ON $1,000 cnitBOND—GAVE BOND. sixf I 'CitJelhuliLlL-OUDlt; !♦* th T)( th hI John Norden, of Mark township ! aged 2 5, married, at a h'earing be-1 vt fore Justice Lamb this morning pled fR1 guilty and was bound over to com- an moil pleas court on the charge of st rape on a $1,000 bond. His father. J pi Chas. Norden of Henry county gave bond and young Norden was released Sheriff Kopp brough him to the city Wednesday evening and he spent the night at the county jail.Norden has been very imtiment with Gustie E. Hasemeir. a young girl of fourteen, in his employ some time ago and the arrest comes about j j t j as a resultof this. He has at var- w y ious times given her money and sev-a eral times notes until in all he has;- j paid the girl $700. His wife learn-jkj ed of the intimacy, also the relat- lu e! ives of the girl and the result was “ il {that charges were brought againstj him by the prosecutor.f-j Norden gave the girl money at dif- y h I ferent times in the following amounts d j $105, $93, $300 note, $200 l-1 She finally confessed, however I and the news of their intimacy has i”; spread over the entire neighborhood it' Norden is said to own a section of ! land in Mark township on which he ie ! resides. His father is wealthy, beingn_: worth in the neighborhood of $100,-; 000 and owning much Henry county ’farm land.stloCaii Norden is married and has twoaliy,J children, the youngest about twomonths of age and the other- several1,0years. j(ii The Hasemeir girl worked for him j11 some time ago and it was there they g n. first grew intimant. She then went c v. to a neighbors to work and he visit- j i is ed there a number of times.. itThe offense is a very serious one »(j as the girl is under sixteen and the penalty in suich cases is from three of to twenty years in the penitentiary.K, Norden is said to have been mixed up ; in other cases before his marriage but they had always been cleared up by means of money.1\as
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Defiance Democrat

Defiance, Ohio, US

Fri, May 29, 1908

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