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Show HUDSON ID SETTS HE AHDJTHE SHE Peculiar Situation Evolved From an Arrest Made in Chicago CHI. QO De 4 Cfcrleto H don a wealthy lawyer for years a respected eh rchn an and cltlaen here and C H Betts, ho fled from New York In 1894 hen le was liberated on bond charged with forge r are the san e man Hudson who as arrested yesterday at the In stance of heirs f his for ner bondsman admitted his Identity tonight In a state ment Issued bv his counsel Clarence Dar row Hudson was arraigned here today and gt en a week s continuance He la at llbertj. having been granted until tomor row morning to raise $5000 bond The fol lowing statement was made public Mr Hudson s name Is Carleton Hud son H s father died when young and his mo her married Hiram W Betts. For many years he was generally called by the name of Betts In 1891 he was Indicted In New York under the name of Carleton H Betts and oaargad with forging a receipt for toOO. I am very sure that ne did not ooramlt a forgnrv and he Is ready to answer any charge made against him. Mr Hudson has lived In Chicago for many years, ia well known and has made frequent trips to New York daring all these years and this charge, twenty years old made at this lime, doubtless oomes through important litigation in which he Is now engaged concerning property mat ten here and In Minnesota. I am confident that when the facts are known he will be rally exonerated. Poorly dressed women beneficiaries of Mrs. Hudson s philanthropies in the thickly settled tenement district near the Moody church gathered In the municipal court when Hudson was arsalgrted. lloit of them war foreign era and all were chartering that something must be wrong, that Hudson s arrest must be a mistake. Mrs. Hudson and their daughter Mar guerite, both have been active charity! workers m the foreign settlement. Nel ! ther attended the hearing today but remained re-mained in their home., refusing to see any callers. |