Show ED OF A CRIME I Seven Victims of the Hongnard Family Conveyed to Potters Field CHICAGO Jan 16 Hearses alone composed com-posed the funeral procession which yesterday yes-terday conveyed to the grave the remains re-mains of the seven nembers of the Hougaard family asphyxiated by gas Sunday night Neither the father nor the wife and children whom he smothered to death to have had seem any acquaintances acquaint-ances close enough to attend the funeral fun-eral I now appears that Hougaard or Hansen was more unfortunate than criminal Danish Consul Peterson says that the stories of Hansens extensive robberies were falsehoods Hansen was a man of education and good birth He ran a commission house at Nickjoping Denmark and was regarded a one of the most prosperous men of the territory terri-tory But he got behind in his accounts lost his head and instead of trying to settle with his creditors ran away to America with his wife and family Here sharpeirs including attorneys whom he trusted appear to have fleeced him out of what little money he had left after a couple of unlucky ventures in Chicago Counterfeited Old Pepper CINCINNATI Jan 16Two distillers appeared yesterday in the police court charged with an attempt to counterfeit and imitate James E Pepper Cos Old Pepper whisky labels They were George H Holt and Edward Amann The latters case was called first and he pleaded not guilty There was an array of prominent whisky men in the court and after hearing the testimony of four or five distillers and dealers the court found Amann guilty and he is in prison awaiting sentence He demanded a jury trial and his case was set for January 2 A Girl Suicides OMAHA Jan 16Anna Royster whose father a wealthy farmer of Boone Ia shot and killed Banker McFarland of that place on the streets of Boone Monday committed suicide in Omaha tonight at the Midland Mid-land hotel She wrote a letter saying she did not care to live since her father had killed her lover and then covered her face with a handkerchief saturated satu-rated with chloroform McFarland was accused of ruining her Sensational Elopement SAN FRANCISCO Jan 16A writ of habeas corpus returnable before Judge Bahrs tomorrow was served upon Chief of Police Crowley today in the case if Mrs E L Charlton and C A Rich the eloping couple from Lawrence Kan The couple arrived from San Diego on the steam schooner Excelsior and wore arrested on a telegram from a Kansas Kan-sas sheriff Mrs Charltons two children are with her In the city prison Her husband hus-band who is said to be superintendent of a Kansas insane asylum Is expected to arrive in the city tonight with requisition requi-sition papers upon which he expects to take Rich back to Lawrence to be tried for abduction S The police think that the facts d not 1 warrant the belief that the evidence will make out the crime of abduction Rich is prepared to show that when Mrs Charlton left her husband Rich was in New lef and that his meeting with Mrs Charlton at San Diego was not prearranced Mrs Charlton says that in no circumstances will she return with her husband or consent to live with him again She says her husband treated her with extreme cruelty and that she has left him for good I is understood that Mrs Charlton came to San Francisco intending to obtain a residence and thereafter bring suit for a divorce CRIME Indian RapistfT Bound Over Special to The Herald POCATELLO Jan 16The two Indians In-dians MakazYee and MasKee who were arrested at Blackfoot last week charged with raping an old squaw of Sand S-and a child 5 years old had an examination examin-ation today before Commissioner Stevens Ste-vens and were bound over to await the action of the United States grand jury March 2nd in the sum of 500 each In default of which they were remanded to the county jail Montana Embezzler Arrested Special to The Herald BUTTE Mont Jan 16G T Davis who embezzled about 3000 from the Missoula Mercantile company of which he was local agent was brought back today from Amarillo Texas by Captain Cap-tain Arthur Jones of the Texas one rangers Davis lost the money gambling gambl-ing and when disclosures were imminent immi-nent he left Butte a few weeks ago going to Denver and then to Texas where he was arrested on suspicion and at once told the officer who he was and why he had left Butte Davis was quite a prominent young man in I town Has a wife and child here I Robbed AVellsFargo Express I DENVER Jan 16A special to the News from Colorado Springs Colo I says Robert R Smith today pleaded I guilty to implication in the robbery of I the Wells Fargo express elf 16000 in I Grassy gulch near Victor some months ago Smith was driver of the I wagon He says his confederates were George Smith recently killed in I Victor Gray and Welch who broke I jail here some time ago and a man named Maye Smith was sentenced to I six years imprisonment I |