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Twice Duped by Erring One, Husband Opens Heart,DODGE LEADS HER ASTRAYDramatic Story Lie* Behind His In* dkrtmeat for Obtain lag; Money YVhil c I mperaa nail n g a Federal Employe.Behind the indictment yesterday ofFt mch E Dodge by ihe Federal -randjury, c horsing him with dt«hon*»Uy ob»L MADDUX LINKS HER WITH f0N ROAD WHEN MRS.I IS KILLED.raining moni»y white Impersonating a Federal employe, a stag? of a faithless wife and a fertlvtng huibuna which would tnnke a good subject for a melo* drama.Dodge wan indicted upon Site evtdMMtegrrtemsd by o, S. and Cora EX Connerand tfaolr Httl girl. Grace. lie Is charged with at ctJng by fraud more than 1500 from Cancer. who is .» rural mall carrier.M-tth a rout- between ^netid and Lebanon.About four yearn ago there waa domestic trouble In the Conner home, and Mrs,Conner went to Eastern Oregon, in thevicinity of Umatilla, where she filed on some land under tho Corny net.Dodge Demands $soo,Some time later Dodge appeared on th© scene and nuld he was a special land agent, and hod discovered that her entry for the land was Illegal. He promised h*r, according to her story, to settle her case for her if she would pay him 1500.In a pitiful totter addressed to her bun-band, Mr; Conner told him that she wo* in danger of g.ing to Jail unless he could semi tier ISW, which he managed to doby disposing of the Util* property hi-* owned. To insure further the protection of the mother of Hit* children, Conner want to hi* wife and promised to take bar back home with him.Ti'p clouds clear* d away from over the Conner home, until aha suddenly tlinap-pered, and her husband was led to he-Have tluit she had been forced to leave to keen out of The way or Government uitlcers, who were «n her trail for an alleged land fraud.L^ist April Dodge appeared nt the Conner borne and waked the latter for more mono*- to pratect his wife, and t20 more was paid him Later Dodge obtained f7 more in the same way.Husband Learsi of Betrayal.Tlisa Cornier act out to iwarch for his wife, and when In found her he rea.lir.od how ho had been deceived, and he hudher and Dodge arreted on a statutory dtai»o, This arreat led to Dodge being In vr-nilgai ad by the Fedora! officer*, whofound that he wo* not «« employe of tbo Govern meet am he natl represented hlra- 1self to he. r-4-V- 1Mrs. C.mner has been occupying a cell at che County j«si for about four months, but ihe was taken from It long enough to testify against Dodge before Che Brine!Jury. D i* behaved that the caws against her will be dropped after she boa testl(led ugainst Dodg* at tils trial, She m repent- i ant and pleads in return to her husband and Children. Conner bn* promised to take her home when eh* gets her freedom,
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Portland Morning Oregonian
Portland, Oregon, US
Sat, Nov 13, 1909
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