Drworwai Makin
INK SLINGS.
—Vote for John G. Miller for
member. of the General Assembly of
Pennsylvania.
Pinchot will mot be elected
Governor, but he is making a strong
campaign for a berth in a bug-
house.
Henry Ford is opposed to
tariff legislation but contributes
liberally to the party that produces
tariff laws.
——The new oil scandal is shap-
ing up and an explosion in the In-
terior Department at Washington is
impending.
— The “Pep’ meeting the Pinchot
Scott combination pulled off up in
the Chestnut Grove section of Boggs
township got entirely too peppy.
President Taft fired Gifford
Pinchot out of the national forest
service because he was a mischief-
maker. Taft had some sense of
proportion.
—Now that McCormick, McSpar-
ran and Bonniwell have crawled into
the same political bed we know
everybody else will be happy and we
hope they will be, too.
— George W, Wickersham, Hoov-
er's crime expert, favors the whip-
VOL. 75.
Hypocrisy Goes the Limit.
In his defiance of the Philadelphia
Republicans who have declared op-
position to his election to the office
of Governor. of Pennsylvania, Gifford
Pinchot is as insincere and dishonest
as he is in promises to do things
which he knows to be impossible of
fulfilment. In a radio speech de-
livered in Philadelphia, last Friday
evening, after charging General At-
terbury, Charles B, Hall and others
with grave crimes, Mr. Pinchot pro-
fesses to be highly gratified because
those gentleman have declared their
purpose to vote against him. As a
matter of fact he did all he could
to entice them to support him. He
even sent State Chairman Martin
and Auditor General Waters to Mr.
| Vare in the hope of making a bargain
ping post as a punishment for crime. | ¢,,. their support.
Well, that brings him up to within
a century of present civilization.
Judge Maxey is a
politician but a poor judge.
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Judge ter his nomination for Governor, at
In 1922 when Pinchot found him-
self slipping he entered into such .
Af-
Niles is a poor politician but a | that time, he denounced the Phila-
splendid judge. They are candidates delphia machine quite as bitterly as
court | he is doing now.
But the public
bench. Consult conscience and make | reaction was disappointing. His ma-
for a seat on the Supreme
choice.
— While Hemphill, the young
lawyer who left his practice, at the
call of his country, was fighting in
France, Pinchot, the milti_millionaire,
was conniving with the Governor of
Pennsylvania to get his salary as
Forester raised. What a contrastin
the characters of the two men.
—If you own stock in a railroad,
a telephone company, an electric
lighting or power company, a bus
line or any other public utility op-
erating in Pennsylvania it is you
Pinchot is injuring by his attacks
on such corporations. Your money
is invested in them. You are en-
titled to a fair dividend from them.
You are not getting more than that
now. If Pinchot has his way, prob-
ably you won't get anything.
—The Hon. Holmes thinks he is
going to be elected for the third
term. He told us so, himself. Of
course he might know what he is
talking about, but we think that
Centre county needs a .Representa-
tive at Harrisburg who won't be
asleep at the switch when such out-
frageous laws as that Reed tax bill
come up. We are going to vote
for John G. Miller, a man who will
make his mark in Harrisburg if
Centre county sends him there.
—If our Republican readers are
as good sports as we are when we
get licked we know they will turn
in and help us to give those old
Democratic roosters of oursa chance
to crow. The poor things, they are
in the last stages of t. b. and un-
less they get a chance to exercise
their lungs soon were going to be
up against an -undertaker’s bill.
Remember, if they get out on Nov.
ember seven they won't crow ex-
ultingly. They'll only crow because
of deliverance from death just like
those really interested in the Re-
publican party should crow for the
deliverance from Pinchot.
—The fife and drum corps of the
Carlisle post American Legion has
been broken up. A political boss
threatened four of its members with
loss of their jobs if they played at
the Hemphill meeting there last
Saturday night. The boss has never
served in any war. John Hemphill
served with distinction in the Big
one and the Legionaires merely
wanted to honor a ‘“buddy.” When
they found out that four of their
members couldn't do that without
losing their jobs the entire outfit
resigned and Carlisle has lost a
martial band that it was mighty
proud of. When the Brooks-Doll
Post band turned out to escort Mr.
Hemphill on his recent visit here
there were no such despicable
characters to threaten them.
—Former Judge Arthur C. Dale
is having the time of his life send-
ing out news ‘releases” from the
Pinchot Philadelphia headquarters.
He just loves it. And it probably
gets across where Arthur isn’t
known. His latest fulmination is to
the effect that Hemphill “is not tell-
ing the truth” when he says that he
has “no deal with the Republican
organization bosses in Philadelphia.”
We know John Hemphill and we
know Arthur Dale. We also know
which one of them would be most
likely to juggle the truth a little if
by so doing he could advance his
political fortunes a bit. And when
the former Judge talks about ‘the
loyal Republican organizations of the
rest of the State” our mind just
naturally wanders back to 1923 when
we elected him District Attorney of
Centre county on the Democratic
ticket because he couldn't be “loyal”
enough to take the lickin’ he gotin
his own party primaries. If Arthur
only had an “Amos” to rescue him
from his blunders he’d made a dandy
“Andy.”
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l.cious attempt to create sectional |
animosities failed and he appealed
to Vare to save him from immedi-
ate defeat and ultimate oblivion.
After he had procured, with Vare's.
legislation which he
imagined made him master of the
State, he violated his agreement
with Vare, betrayed his obligation
calling |
cans whom he had deceived, bad
names.
Moreover, in his present endeavor :
to sneak into the office of Governor
Gifford Pinchot’s hands are not
clean. He might have deceived Vare
again if his perfidy had not been
previously revealed, but he has
succeeded in inveigling the Pitts-
burgh bunch of political pirates
into his support. The “strip,” where
ballots are thrown into sewers and
corruption rages without restraint,
is for him enthusiastically and
Mayor Kline, Max Leslie and their
gangs of thugs and outlaws are with
him on their own terms, General
Atterbury and Mr. Vauclain are
anathema to his addled mind but
the ballot box stuffers of Pittsburgh
are his cherished supporters and
friends. Hypocrisy could hardly go
further.
—1It looks more and more as if
John Hemphill is going to be given |
a chance to show Pennsylvania
whether he is a second Robert E. |
Pattison. The tide has turned and
brother Pinchot is on the run.
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The Danger of Branch Banks.
In a speech delivered at Easton, |
on Wednesday evening of last week, |
Sedgwick Kistler, Democratic candi- |
date for United States Senator, said: |
“If branch banking is permitted
either by legislative inaction or |
sanction to continue in its develop- !
ment we will have in this country |
that concentrated and centralized
financial control advocated by Alex- |
ander Hamilton but always hereto-
fore unacceptable to the people of
the United States. The bankers and
stockholders stand to see the elimi-
nation of their institutions, and the
borrowers and depositors stand to
lose a relationship of personal under-
standing and appreciation in their
financial dealings.”
Branch banking is a new and
menacing evil in the business life of
the country. It began in an early
period of the Coolidge regime and
spread rapidly under freely extend-
ed sanction of Secretary of the
Treasury Mellon. Consolidations,
mergers and absorptions of big banks
in the financial centers made the
organization of chain or branch in- |
stitutions desirable, if not necessary,
to give employment to surplus cap-
ital and at the same time hold it
under constant control of the moth-
er institution. One of the evil ef-|
fects is the absence of sympathy
between the bank officials and the
customers, which has averted many
financial wrecks. The hard boiled
head of the major bank has “no
bowels of compassion.”
The platform upon which John
M. Hemphill, Sedgwick Kistler and
their associates on the Democratic
ticket stand, declares against this
evil. It warns the public against
such combinations and connections
as “inimical to the welfare of the
people” and adds, “branch or chain
banking would destroy all locally
owned banks with their local
management and local sympathies;
it would concentrate and centralize
the banking resources of the whole
country into a limited number of
great banks controlled by a few in-
dividuals.” In the face of this
menace, Mr. Kistler’'s admonition is
timely. His election to the Senate
would be a preventive step.
able deflection of Democratic voters
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STATE RIGHTS ‘AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE. PA.. OCTOBER 17. 1
Pinchot Is Yelling “Stop Thief!”
If you want to know the truth about why so many big Republi-
cans in Pennsylvania are announcing that they are going to support
Hemphill for Governor we'll tell you.
First. They regard Pinchot as a very dangerous man. Dangerous,
because he is so rich himself that he has no conception of what his
scattered-brained theories might mean to industry and labor, if put
into practice.
Second. They know he is irresponsible, because no serious man
would make promises that he knows that he cannot fulfill.
Third. They know that he is not a Republican, because he said so,
himself, in 1912.
Fourth, They know that he would not be a candidate for Governor
of Pennsylvania if it were not for the chance his election would give
him to “hook up” with what Senator Moses (Republican Senator from
New Hampshire) called the “Wild Jackasses”’ of the Middle West and
attempt to make himself President
Fifth, They know John Hemphill is sound.
real truth that we promised to tell you comes in)
of the United States.
(Here’s where the
They know that
an organization was formed among prominent Democrats and Re-
publicans (alike) to pull him off
our ticket and substitute another
candidate who might be more pliable to the demands of certain in-.
terests in the Republican party, that we shall not name now. Mr.
Hemphill had only the good of Pennsylvanians at heart and John
Collins, our conscientious State Chairman, was of like mind so a deaf
ear was
for Governor to any course other
people of Pennsylvania.
turned to all proposals that might obligate our candidate
than that of usefulness to all the
When they realized that John Hemphill had
no other desire to be Governor of Pennsylvania than an old fashioned
idea that he might be of service to his fellow Pennsylvanians, that
he is one of the men who ‘can’t be seen,” they figured that it might
be better for the State, better for
elected.
the Republican party, if he were
In endorsing Hemphill the really big Republicans of Pennsylva-
nia are trying to do for their own
party just what the late Matthew
Stanley Quay did for it in 1883 when he sent out the word from the
old Continental hotel,
made Robert E. Pattison Governor.
9th and Chestnut Streets,
Philadelphia, that
To this day Pattison is remembered as one of Pennsylvania's
greatest Governors.
There were
elected him.
not enough Democrats then in the State to have
Republicans gave him to Pennsylvania, just like they are now go-
ing to help put John Hemphill in the executive mansion at Harrisburg.
We have told you the truth. In other words, “the low down” on
the situation.
We don’t like to call Mr. Pinchot a liar when he says
that John Hemphill has made a deal with Vare or anybody else.
An
we want to tell you is that he spurned all such proposals and by do-
ing so won the respect of those who attempted to use him,
And that’s why forty-seven of the Ward leaders of Philadelphia
are for him. And that’s why Allegheny county, the Mellons and all
the others are turning to him. It's n
‘because he is running on the
“wet” platform of thé Deniocratic party in Pennsylvania.
It’s because they have tried to seduce him and failed.
And be-
cause of that failure they have discovered a sound man who, while
not being one of their political faith, they recognize as being safer
for the industries, safer for labor,
safer for all interests of Pennsyl-
vania than Mr. Pinchot who has no other interest at heart than his
own aggrandizement.
Mr. Pinchot is yelling “Stop Thief!” all over the State about the
deal John Hemphill has with the so called Philadelphia gang. What
a hypocrite!
He is the very fellow for whom Republican State Chairman
Martin went to Philadelphia to make terms with “the gang.”
John Collins, Mr. Hemphill’s manager, never made overtures of
that nature.
Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
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Pinchot’s Fraudulent
Claims.
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In his professions of confidence of
election Gifford Pinchot is just as‘
insincere as he is in his absurd
promises of achievement in the event
of ‘his election. His purpose in both
instances is to deceive and are equally
fraudulent. There is no consider-
to his support in any section of the
State. A few more or less fanatical
prohibition voters who have been
reckoned as Democrats might, and
probably will, vote for him. But
there will be twenty Republicans
voting for John M. Hemphill for
every Democrat who will vote for
Pinchot. This prediction is based
on reliable information from every
county in the State,
It may be added that outside of
fanatical prohibitionists in both par-
ties and a few mercenary politicians
there is positively no enthusiasm
for Pinchot anywhere. This was
shown at a recent meeting held in
Harrisburg for the stated purpose
of exhibiting the perfect harmony of
the candidates. Great preparation
had been made to entertain not less
than 15,000 persons and all the
candidates were assembled. The
1500 employees of the Fisher ad-
ministration were given a half holi-
day and a speaker's stand and big
platform had been erected on the
capitol grounds, probably at public
expense. A great number of State
policemen and highway patrolmen
were brought from various sections
of the State, certainly at the ex-
pense of the State. It was to bea
great event.
But the result was disappointing.
The highest estimate made by even
partisan newspaper correspondents,
of whom there were many in at-
tendance, was a crowd of 2000, while
conservative reporters fixed “those
present” at 1500. The meeting last-
ed less than two hours and it was
as gloomy a gathering of hopeless
partisans as was ever assembled at
Harrisburg or anywhere else. There
was no enthusiasm in the crowd, no
spirit and hardly a hope in the
speeches, and we are reliably in.
formed by a gentleman who was
present that after the meeting ad-
Journed Mr. Pinchot confidentially
stated to a friend that unless the up-
State voters were aroused to great-
er exertions he would be defeated.
——Said Republican county chair-
man Wilson I. Fleming to mayor
Mackey, of Philadelphia, in a tele-
gram published in the Philadelphia
Inquirer on Monday morning: “Cen-
tre county will be strong for whole
ticket. Organization united in sup-
port;” all of which it is anything
else but, in the words of Octavus
Roy Cohen.
—The opinion that there ought be
minority representation on the Ap-
pellate court benches of the State
is growing rapidly, and every con-
tact with Henry C. Niles gives ita
boost.
—=Sir Thomas Lipton promises
to make another effort to capture
the America’s cup, which proves he
is quite as much an optimist as a
sportsman.
Prohibition commissioner Do.
ran and prohibition director Wood-
cock are calling each other names.
“When rogues fall out”—you know
the rest.”
——Of course Grundy knows ex-
actly what Pinchot would do witha
piece of labor legislation. Grundy
never ‘buys a pig in a poke.”
——Gifford Pinchot hasn't de-
nounced Secretary Mellon for some
time. Obviously Giff still hopes
Mellon will support him.
—It must be a comfort to Gifford
Pinchot to know that the Pittsburgh
political pirates are faithful to his
cause.
——The hopes of New York Re-
publicans are based on scandal,
which is a mighty poor foundation.
———=Speaking of optimism Bishop
DuBoise has asked Bishop to
resign.
930.
the parade.
NO. 41.
'FIFTY YEARS AGO
| IN CENTRE COUNTY.
| Items taken from the Watchman issue of
October 22, 1880.
—The Democrats of Centre county
will have a grand rally in Bellefonte
on Friday, October 29. Special
trains will be run from Clinton,
Clearfield and Blair counties.
day parade will form at 10 a. m.
The torch light procession will form
at 7p. m. The speakers will ‘be
Hon. William P. White, United
States Senator from Maryland; Hon.
Lewis C. Cassidy, of Philadelphia;
William A. Wallace, of Clearfield;
Hon, Samuel H. Reynolds, of Lan-
caster; Gen. A. L. Pearson, of
Pittsburgh and others.
—John H. Houser, who a short
time ago lost his right hand while
working with a clover huller at
State College, had an accident pol-
icy which William B. Rankin,
this place, had induced him to take
only a short time before the acci-
dent. It was just business for Mr.
Rankin to sell that policy, but it
was mighty good business for John.
—E. S. Garver, formerly of Cen.
tre Hall, this county, has been nom-
inated for the Legislature by the
Democrats of Worth county, Mis-
souri, where he is now living and
editing a paper.
—The tickets for the special train
to Williamsport for the Hancock
meeting are only one dollar for the
round trip, George B. McClellan, '
review
the hero of Antietam, will
—B. F. Leathers and Son, of
Unionville, have torn down the old
hotel stable on the corner of Main
and Plank Road streets, one of the
landmarks of the town, and are
' planning to build a store-room sixty-
| feet deep on the lot.
: Tuesday might.
Above it will
be a town hall, something that
Unionville needs very badly.
—The Philipsburg delegation that
came over to march in the Republican
parade, last Friday night, were treated
rather heartlessly by those who ran
the affair. The Philipsburgers had
left home at 3 o'clock in the after-'
noon and when they arrived here
were pushed right into the parade. '
Then they were kept on the march
until within eleven minutes of the
time of departure of their special
train, and not one of them got a
+4 chance to get a bite to eat. Pretty
shabby, that.
—Pennsylvania Railroad magnates
paid Bellefonte a visit over last
President Roberts,
General Superintendent Pugh, Gen.
Manager Thompson and other high
officials were here to meet president
Downing, of the Snow Shoe R. R.
The Pennsylvania is going to buy
the Snow Shoe road and the officials
were taking a look at it,
—Monte Ward, of this place, the
noted baseball curve pitcher of the
Providence, R, I, ctub, has been se-
cured by the Metropolitan club of
New York and will finish the sea-
son there.
—A smart fall of snow occurred
ih Snow Shoe on Wednesday morn-
ng.
—The Presbyterians in this place
expect to reoccupy their church
edifice next Sunday.
—The Greenbackers of Centre
county have nominated very respect-
table candidates, but they cant win
this fall. Even their eminent chair-
man, Jacob V. Thomas Esq. can't
get things going their way.
—An infant son of Samuel and
Marilla Dawson, of this place, died
on Friday last at the age of seven
months.
—W. E. Burchfield, Register of
Centre county, and Mrs. Mary
Moran, widow of the late John
Moran Esq., were married at the
bride’s residence in this place at
five o'clock, last Tuesday evening by
the Rev Mr. Laurie, of the Pres-
byterian church. The bride is the
daughter of the Hon. S. T. Shugert
and one of the most estimable ladies
in Bellefonte.
(Editor's Note—We are really at
our wit’s end. This edition of the
Watchman seems to have purveyed
very little local mews other than
meetings of Hancock and English
and Garfield and Arthur enthusiasts.
Parades and meetings must have
been held at every cross roads in
the county and Watchman news
gatherers of fifty years ago must
have been pretty busy reporting
them. It was a long trip from
Bellefonte to Stormstown, by horse
and buggy, and thence to Madison-
burg and on over to Howard but
someone seems to have done it and
the paper is full of political meet-
ings such as would start brother
Pinchot turning hand springs were
there such enthusiasm in Centre
county now for him.)
——The light registration in the
cities of the State is ominous to
Pinchot’s hopes and ambitions,
a glacker is a problem for World
war veterans to solve.
——Those Missouri athletes cer-
thing about base ball.
rm———— Apri —
——There are symptoms of an
anti-Pinchot epidemic in Pittsburgh.
The
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SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE
—While Mrs. David Richard, of Fallen
Timber, was outside her home talking
with neighbors concerning a fatal acci-
dent, her daughter, Alice, one year old fell
into a tub of water in the kitchen and
was drowned on Saturday.
—Forty Fort borough authorities and
State police are endeavoring to apprehend
the person or persons who for the past
six weeks have left threatening letters
at the homes of several prominent. resi-
dents. Each letter demanded a sum of
money, in some instances the amount
being $500.
—George Tudech, of Jonestown, 50,
who authorities believe fell from a roof
while walking in his sleep, died last
week of his injuries. Tudech was found
unconscious in the yard of a relative in
Heckscherville. He had gone there to
attend the funeral of a cousin who was
killed in a mine accident.
—Robert Neff, 60, dictator for the
Moose Lodge in Tyrone, was sent to the
Blair county jail for from eight to 16
months, on Tuesday, charged with vio-
lating the liquor laws. He was also
fined $500. In the raid a few months
ago the club steward was given six
months for beer manufatcure.
—Aroused by a commotion in his hen-
nery, early on Monday, chief of police
Charles Zimpher, of Hellertown, North-
ampton county, took his gun to investi-
gate. Seeing an object crawling along
the side of the building, he fired. The
‘thief’ was Chief Zimpher‘'s own rab-
| bit hound, that had killed seven pullets.
—The owner of an automobile was
, required by the jury in a civil action in
| the Montgomery county courts to pay
la bill for damages caused to a railroad
i locomotive. ‘rhe action was brought by
{ the Reading Railway company against
| Merrell Margetum. The plaintiff sought
$420.50 for repairs to the engine. A ver-
. dict for the full amount was returned by
! the jury.
—Rittner Harvey went to jail
Bloomsburg, on Monday, until he
$271 funeral expenses of his first wife
and a $25 contempt of Court fine. Har-
vey married again 10 days after his first
wife died. He was attempting to ob-
tain a Nevada divorce at the time. When
he was arrested he had married the
woman the Court had ordered him to
stay away from.
—A jury in the Dauphin county court,
‘on Tuesday, awarded $6000, heart balm
to Miss Ivy M. Carberry from the es-
tate of Ross Oenslager after 19 hours of
deliberation. Miss Carberry filed suit
for breach of promise against Oenslager
in 1929 and following his suicide in Octo-
ber of hat year, she amended the suit
to claim $100,000 damages from his es-
tate. She alleged that Oenslager had
' pepeatedly promised to marry her.
—Robberies at a number of business
places in Tunkhannock and vicinity have
. been solved with the arrest of nine school
boys, police say. An 11-year-old boy was
. named as tne leader of the group. Near-
at
pays
ly $500 was taken in the robberies, po-
lice revealed, and all but $3 has been
recovered. The money was found hid-
, den uhder a hardware store, which was
one of the places robbed. Authorities
described the boys as belonging to the
‘best families” of the town, and would
not reveal their names pending a further
; investigatoin.
—Roy Eckert, of Emigsville, night man
at a York garage and service station,
frustrated an attempt at a holdup at
his place of employment by beating the
thug to the draw. Eckert fired one shot
at the fleeing bandit, who escaped, Eck-
ert noticed the stranger coming in his
direction as he was washing an automo-
bile. The intruder was approaching
through a lane of automobiles. Eckert
noticed a highly polished revolver in the
man’s hand. The garage employee drew
his gun and fired a shot. The intruder
beat a hasty retreat.
—Mrs. Rebecca Swallow is sole heir
to the $50,000 estate of the late Rev. Dr.
Silas C. Swallow, Harrisburg, according
to the terms of his will filed at the
Dauphin county court house. The estate
consists of personal property. The Rev.
Dr. Swallow was once a candidate Tor
President on the Prohibition party and
was a retired Methodist minister. A
week before the death of her husband,
Mrs. Swallow suffered a fractured hip
in a fall on the front porch of her home
and has been confined to the Keytsone
hospital since tnat time.
—If no near-relatives are found, the
$12,000 estate of David Johnston, Western
Electric employee who fell dead in the
new Bell telephone plant at Sunbury,
last week, will revert to .the Common-
wealth of Pennsylvania. Johntson, about
50, was a native of Scotland. He came
to this country when a young man and
became a naturalized citizen. He en-
tered the employment of the Western
Electric company about 21 years ago.
His work took him from place to place
all over the United States. Thus his
home came to be any town Where he
was sent. For two months he had lived
in Sunbury.
—Half forgotten tricks of her circus
days rushed back into the memory of
an .armless mother in time to save her
4-year-old daughter from burning. to
death. The child, Rose Lee Matthews,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mat-
thews, of Northumberland, was playing
in the yard in back of her home when
suddenly she let out a piercing scream.
The mother, armless since birth, rushed
out and found her daughter in flames.
Quickly throwing off her shoes and us-
ing her feet as a normal person would
hands, she seized the clothes with her
toes and stripped them from the back
of the child.
—Mrs. Ruth Urban, a comely woman,
22 years old of Pittsburgh, told police,
on Monday, that she married Leonard
Urban, 25, so he could inherit $60,000
from a wealthy aunt and give her $12,-
000 to obtain a divorce and marry the
man of her choice. Urban was held in
jail pending investigation of the story.
Detectives said they were told that Ur-
| ban informed Reed Miller, his friend and
the young woman's flance, that he was
to inherit $60,000 from an aunt if he
married by October 1. Miller and the
| girl agreed to Urban’s proposal of mare
: riage and divorce, officers said, and the
. ceremony was performed at Cumberland,
Md., September 26, with Miller as best
man. October 1 came and went, and
Urabn said and did nothing about the
$12,000. Mrs. Urban, who had not been
living with him, had him arrested when
he called on her Sunday night.