Show V W E HUBBARD IN JAIL L V FOR F R Pt A SHOCKING CRIME V Real Estate Man Charged Ch With Assault Assaulting Assaulting V V ing Little Girls Officers Concealed Themselves and Witnessed the Alle AIle ged V Offenses HuMbard Denies Denie the Charge VV y E L Hubbard treasurer and man manager manager V ager of ot the Hubbard Investment oom pany former fonner president of the cham chamber chamber ber of oC and nd a n prominent nf real Iea estate ettla e man i is In hi jail charged charell with a i iL L felony His Hie prim accuser is an 11 t I t arold girl Helen Knox the daughter of or a widow Mrs IIri Pt E Knox of or South First West Veat Mrs Lawler pro V of ot the Realty rooming house on Went We t Temple street where hu h has hasa a room corroborates the tho girls story V and sas Zay she looked through a 8 tran transom transom V som om and sw saw the crime committed in inV V V Hubbar Hubba s room last lant Tuesday after afternoon noon Policemen Sperry and Gillespie who ht made zide the arrest declare de lure they saw Hubbard attempt a a similar crime last ast V evening in the same place just before they took him into custody Mrs Law Lawler Lawler Lawle ler le says Boys 8 she has watched Hubbard aad obtained evidence Involving other lit little little littie V tle tie girls sirls The rhe names of ot the other chil children hU hUdren dren Involved are not yet known 4 Mrs Mis Lawler declares she has heard V m t stifled d cries crie and protests from rom the th childE enticed by Hubbard to his hi hiV room that he ho has looked over the tle V transom and with her own eyes s seen een the acts which caused these cries Story V For months month mid aId Mrs airs rs Lawler lit Ut Uttie little tl tie tle girls from S i to 10 or 12 13 years old some acme of them l hardly able to t climb the stairs have V paid frequent visits vieWs I V to toV V Hubbards room No Ne 2 on the third floor r but the children called him Uncle yesterday yost still sUll holding bo out the promise to get gat ber her to t return today V When arrested Hubbard declared to the officers that he had done nothing wrong and appealed to the child to toV corroborate te him On the way to the V police station according to the state statement statement ment mont of the officers Hubbard demanded to know how they happened to be there therein in the house The officers say that when they told him they had been watching matching him for a week he staggered ft a I if it he had been struck and an of officer officer had to take hold of his arm to steady him When at the station of which was in 10 the form of a draft was S found in Hubbards posses possession possession possession sion Hubbard refused to say Anything about the matter until he had called Judge O 0 W Powers and spent some sometime sometime sometime time in consultation with him When seen after the consultation w with ith his at attorney attorney attorney torney Hubbard Sf l I 1 have nothing to say about it ft ex except except except that the charges are untrue and andI I can prove my innocence He was asked ked about the Story of oe the child and of Mrs Lawler L uA A mistake has been made some somewhere somewhere somewhere where he replied That is all I have to say ay Hubbard visibly when talk taU talking log ing and appeared to be anno by any questions asked hill hin When pressed for I further urther statement in the matter he positively declined to say anything an V mote more He said he h thought he ho would 1 be able to give bends bonds but did not notI I thInk he could C Uld raise them t em last night nIgh r f I V t V VV V H V A V j VII and I never had bad a suspicion any anything thing could be wrong until the colored V chambermaid cham Hannah JOliN called aUed my m attention to evidences evidence of the crimes crimea This was Saturday April 6 About t i 9 z o clock that afternoon she saw a lit little tle girl about 10 y cars ars old whose ho e name ibe ge does doe not know go to Hubbards V room She the looked Ix ked through the tran transom som and says gys the sight she saw veri Veil verified verified fied fled all her suspicions V She Immediately notified Chief Hil Hilton Hilton ton tan and Officers S Sperry perry and Gillespie V wire were W ip detailed de to keep a watch on Hubbard Hub Hubbard Hubbard bard Mrs La Lawter ter allowed them to take the adjoining room and there they remained for ten hours a day watching wa V Hubbard Hubbards s room rm through a crack rack On last Tuesday afternoon the officers left the place pla e about 5 and accord according I ing to the statement of Mrs Lawler LawtEr Hubbard appeared about an hour houi later with little Helen Knox and took her t tb lit lits room roomS A short hirt time later Mrs Lawler Gey 9 she stilled cries from Hubbards room loom and on going into 1 Ute the next room aw saw w Hubbard l assaulting tt tl child hUd Hen Helen she says was 88 moan Ii tu Kith pain and protesting against I c act a t Mr Lawler r ran n out for a Do but 1 did not find one on and when she returned the child was not I tIe She notified the officers of ef the ot and a more strict watch was i k Jupt pt on the room with the th result that Yf t rda afternoon about bout 3 I y saw fU W Hubbard Hub rd come Orne to his room lOOm I and later tater little Helen Knox and old Mattie Mattle Thompson the daughter of ot ofA ofA I A R It Thompson Thomp on who runs a 11 arnt restaurant rant at o West Vest Second South uth street treet into the tho room to the Ule story of the officers V Hubbard after locking O the door took tool little Helen on hN his lap and took Im Improper improper i proper groper liberties with her A little later h he gave gal the th Thompson child some c candy nd And the officers say and s sent nt her herm heroo m oo of the room locking the door be behl hl d her He then again assaulted aa Helen H elen The TM child said mid she saw some someone somene one ne over the transom and Hubbard the officers say aay M then put a lirt over the transom I IThe The child protested The officers say sv sayana ana anu THi Hubbard Hubba it is alleged got her to promise to return to his hta room at tl 8 o oV I k today by offering ofer ng her a silk um urn and a sliver stiver bracelet Hubbard then opened th door to allow aU the ohM hild to go bO and the officers arrested an ted bun bim Little Girls Girts Gir s Story j A t the station n the child told her story of 01 meeting with HUbbard and how ho he had bad induced d her bel to go o to his hl ro room m She iThe aali lost last Monday she met Hub Hubba ba bid bad d in m front of ot the Utah Hardware at score tre ore on First South street and asked Him im the price of some rabbits there The said she was wan with Mattle Thomp Thompson V son sn on and that Hubbard follower f them about the Ove t e streets streett and finally by givIng Ing them a quarter ter ach Aach induced them to KO pO to the sanitarium and take a swim him There Th re according to the state AC the child he offEred entered to give her herI I V If f he be would come to his room the next neet da daShe day V V She old the officers rs that she wont want and related what had occurred d there although she at t first denied deni d th t Hub Hubbard Hubbird bird bard had harmed her She said sold that Hubbard V haT ha given gIyen her the f r he had her so she could rould buy buya i wm ain f p 4 and that lIe he hid had h d offered orr red her hei h I th V umbrella and bracelet bra to come tome back r C He placed the matter of oe bail in the hands of or Judge Powers and was re returned returned turned to his cell where he was locked up until his bail bait can be fixed by Judge today to ay and an effort made to torIse rIse raise it Judge Powers w when hen seen said he had nothing to say in the case at atall all ex except except except that he was looking after the pre preliminary matters for foi Hubbard A num number number ber her of Hubbard ends Jends called at the station to see him iring the evening e but b t all of them were reticent about the matter Mother Was Shocked As soon as Hubbard was wac arrested and taken to the station Officer Sperry sent for tor the parents of the children Mrs Knox knew nothing of ot the occurrence until the officer found her at her home anxiously hunting for Helen Heen When told of ot the affair the mother of the child was almost heartbroken with grief grice She said she did not know that the child had hd ever gone to the room of Hubbard and never dreamed of any hurt coming cominS to her She Sh said she al allowed allowed lowed the child to go out for a walk with Mattie Mattle yesterday and thought when they did not return that they were lost and was hunting buntIng bun for tor them when she learned of the affair At the station she almost broke down and ind re requested requested requested quested that Dr King be called and avd make an examination of or the child Af Att t r making an examination the doctor thought that the child had not been seriously y injured The child who is Js unusually brIght aright for tor her years cr was allowed tt t go home with her mother and the Thompson child was yas turned over to her ber parents oil |