Show I ROBBED THE CUSTOMERS i Coal Company in Indianapolis Comes to Grief Through Testimony Given by Woman Indianapolis Ind April S SA A woman stenographer Mrs Jeanette Stern In hi the theoffice j I office of the Eclipse Coal company was wasI responsible for tor the discovery of a 1 I coal graft in which the Claypool and the English hotels two of the leading hoe hoa hostelries of this city and the city hospital were ware the victims As a result of Mrs Sterns detective work six men two of them her employers ad and three of the others engineers of the institutions that suffered were arrested on charges oi ot grand larceny larcen today They confessed The men under arrest are James Jackson president of ot the Eclipse Coal company Edwin R H Gross secretary and treas treasurer treasurer treasurer of the Eclipse Coal company Jackson a clerk for the com corn company compan pany pan John W Hanrahan manager of Wil William liam E light and water plant Fred J 3 Voss chief engineer at Claypool hotel Charles T Edmonston chief engineer at City hospital All AU made written confessions at the pollee station and were released on bond furnished by Mrs Irs Johanna Frank a wealthy German Gennan woman According to the confessions the plan by which the Claypool hotel was robbed of ot the English hotel of and the City hospital of 1000 was a 0 simple scheme The police first were notified of the al alleged alleged alleged conspiracy March S I when Mrs Stern Starn chanced to meet Detective Kurtz Kurts You remember Mr Kurtz said Mrs Mra Stern of ot my telling you some time ago that something was wrong at the coal office I The detective said ha ho recalled such a stAtement and was waa waiting for tor her to I substantiate it JL Mrs Stern then told the 1 detective of the alleged alle od plot I |