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tabling money while Impersonating a Fed* eml employe, Is a story of a faithless ■wife and a forgiving husband which would make n good subject for a roelo-drunft.Dodge waa Indicted upon the evidonoa presented by O, B. and Cora E. Conner and their tittle girl. Grace. He I* charredwith netting by fraud more than 150) frotn Conner, who Is .» rural mallcarrler. vrlih a route betwwn Shedd and l?b-anotvAbout four year* ago there wan domestic trouble In tho Conner home, and Mra. Conner went to Eastern Oregon, in Urn vicinity of Umatilla. where ahe fllod on Home land under the Caroy act.Dodge Demands $500.Feme time later Dodge appeared on tho aeon* and said he was a apodal land agent, and had discovered that her entry for the Und wan Illegal. He pmmt»elt;l her. according to her story, to settle her caaa for her if ah* would pay htm J500.In a pitiful letter addressed to bar husband, Mr* Conner told him that she was In danger of going to jail uniean he could send her which he managed to do by disposing of the little property ho OfMi To Insure further th* protectionof the mother of III* children, Conner went to his wlf* and promised to take her tuiok home with him.The clouds cleared nwny rrom over th* ronwr home, until she suddenly disappeared. and her husband was led to believe that she had beon forced to leave Jo k**vp out of the way of Government officers, who wera on her trail for an alleged land fraud-Lost April Dodge appeared nt the Conner home and asked the latter for more mono** to protect his wife, md CO more was paid him loiter Dodge obtained 17 more In the same way.Ilti-Iiuiul Learn- of Betrayal.Then Conner *-i out to search for his wife, and when lit- found her It* realized how he had been deceived, ami he had her and Dodge arrested on a statutory charge. This arrest led to Dodge being Investigated by the Federal officers, whofound that h* w«* not *n employe of tha Government as he imd represented himself to be. #Mrs. Conner has been occupying a cell at the County Jail for about four months, but she w«* tnkrn from It long enough to testify against Dodge before the grand Jury. It Is believed that the can* against her will be dropped after ahe ha* testified against Dodge at hts trial. She Is repentant and pleads to return to her husband and children. Conner has promised to take her homo when she gets her freedom.
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Portland Morning Oregonian
Portland, Oregon, US
Sat, Nov 13, 1909
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