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Ill MADDUX LINK ION ROAD WHEN L IS KILLED.HKL SOBS•alrtlng money while impersonating n Flt;-d-era! employe. i* i -tory of a taUhtaHi■wife tt.nd a forgiving whichwould mflki » wood »ubj*-et for a molo-dtmmm.Dodge wfti* Indicted upon the evidenceprr*t.n»#d by o, B. and Cora K. Conner and their tittle girl. Grnffl. lie li charged with g*-(ting by fraud more than $00from Conner, who In a rural mull carrier,with a route between Btiadd and l^b-ntiuaAbout four yearn ago therlt; wan domestic trouble in thi Conner home, and Mm Conner went to Eastern Oregon. In tlwj vicinity of Umatilla. where she filed on »orne land under the Carey act.Dodge Demand* $500.Homo time later Dodge appeared on fho ■eerie and raid he was special land agent, nd had discovered that her entryfor the land wan illegal. He promised her, according to her atory, to settle her ce*e for her if pthe would pay him J5C0.In a pitiful letter addressed to her husband. Mn Conner told him that she was in danger of going to jail unleen he could send her |S0(*. which he managed to do by disponing of the little properly ho owned. To insure further the protection of tru- mother of hip children, Conner went to hi* wife and promised to take her hack home with him.The clqud« cl wind away from over the Conner home, until aha suddenly diaap-penrcd, and her husband wee lea to he-liev*p tliiii she had been forced to leave to :i out of th»- way or Government oitkttrg, who were on her trail for an alleged land fraud.Last April Podge appeared at the Conner home an«1 asked the latter for more mono? to protect hi* wife, and 120 more was paid him. Later Dodge Obtained |T more in the same way.Husband Lmrn- of Betrayal.Then Conner set our to renrch for his wife, and when lit found her hr realised how ho had beon deceived, and hr- had her and Dodge ftrrceted on a statutorycharge. This arrest led to Dodge being Inveatigafed by the Federal of deem, whofound that hlt;- wurn no! »n employe of tho Government as he had represented himself fo be. £“Ji v‘ T‘ “g;Mr*. Conner hits boon occupying a cell at the- County jau for about four motilhs. but ih1 was taken from It Ion#,* enough to trailfy asuinst Dodge before the Krtnd Jury. It Is belb v. il that the ijme dgilntf her will in- :r jpjM-,1 iif'-'r alie has leMlflnd against Dodge at ills trial. She Is repentant and pleads in return to her husbandand children. Conner ha# promised Utake her homo when »h~ gets iter freedom.Twice Duped by Erring One, Husband Opens Heart.DODGE LEADS HER ASTRAYDrnmntir Story Lie* Behind HU Indkmnent for Obtaining Money While Impersonating aFederal Employe.Behind the indictment yesterday of Frege h E Dodge by the Fed Ami strand Jury, charging him with dl«hon**tly eb»
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Portland Morning Oregonian
Portland, Oregon, US
Sat, Nov 13, 1909
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