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Show !i TRIM no int ; Witness Says Maude Tabor ; Died and Was Buried in Colorado. Her Name Declared to Have Been Forged to Mortgage Paper. (Chicago Tribune Special Service.) LAWTOX, Mich., Ieo. 3. A member i of the Tabor family on October 11, 191 . affixed the name of Maude Faith Tabor, former Ogden hiffti school teacher and I trim1-: mystery victim, then deceased fm t ' al least three months, to a paper assign - J j :,!g to Mr--?. Sarah Tabor, the mother, a ; ' 5000 mortgage held in Maude's- name for ' i wo lots in Biteley's addition of Law ton. i Tliip was brought out today in the ques- ; tionius of George Gould, clerk in the - I .oi:nty recorder's office, by Prosecuto; Hoi ace H. Adams, although the person who forged the signature was not nameu ' at the inquest. Mr. Adams said he woiud question Walter Tabor and the mothei (;iboli; it. They have not been definitely located, but thev are supposed to be soniewheu in tlie vicinity of Portland. Ore. Notliir- ' 1ms ben heard from Waiter since tru returned reiritt-red letter receipt whkn lie signed at the itinera; delivery of tl Portland postoffiuo November 116. ar.u ! ; which was received back at Law'ton ev- i teroay. 1 ' The mortgage, wliich had ongvaahy been in Mrs. Sarah Tabor's name, had i..en assigned to Maude a few years before. be-fore. The reassignment after her dtath, in which her name was affixed by some 1 . mher person, was sent in to the record er's office for filing, according to the ; office records, by Mrs. Sarah Tabor. Witness Sought. One. of the acknowledging witnesses . was V: it k.:u Wait--, ""ho at that iim- was emp!o cd as a hand on one of t ne i Tabcr farms. Prosecutor A da ins has started search for him in an enort 10 cs.iL-'isn identification of t!ie person who sjirned Maude's name, "Mrs. Walter Tabor, wife of the missing ! ( mill, was the chief witness at the inquest toda v. f She disclosed the ehrono.cgical sequence of Walter's movements from the fall oi 1 when some witnesses assert Maude ; died, down to two weeks ago. On No vember IS she received from Walter v. brisket of appies from an Oregon town siu-. didn't remember the name of. she .-aid. 1 : The witiu-ss was quite positive about ' s:-me incidents ami consistently ague , ! abou t others. In particular, she couid : not remember that Mrs. Sarah Tabor had ever mentioned to her that Maude was in a i-rilh-al eondition. She had never heard ,.; .los'.-ph Y'reo, the undertaker, mentioned ' as Maude's sweetheart, she insisted. , Changes His Story. j : , And yet Yiruo. taking tlie witnes-- stand 1 at his own request this morning, reversed Ids testimony of Tuesday by stating that '! he was aware f Maude's condition, which. ; .:ad reached the criikal stage at the day i I or her death. And also, Lnat Mrs. Sarah , Tabor, the mother, iiad asked him to 1 I pei-forni an itli-ual operation on November j j 1. It'll'. Jle refused and he I .-ft. bawton j' .;ni did not auain visit the TaIors until I I :!ie spring of lHjy. Pie didn't see Maude 1 I tiicn, he said. Airs. Walter Tabor first testified that i ; -he d-d not h'arn o:" Maude's de.v.h until ! 1 the a Womobile party arrived at OK-n- di-.e two week:; alter La Lor day. Later I s,.f said that she received a telegram ' from Walter dated Law ton and reading : l "I laude dead." I i Karlier in the summer, Mrs. So rah Ta- j 1 j bo:' tohj her. site said, that sh- had i 1 started west with Maudu, who was suf- j "eiiiig nei.Mciv from asrhma, and at Golo-i Golo-i ado Sttri tigs'. Maude fl ied. The mc Lhcr said she bi.ied her there. The mot'itr had cautioned " not to venuon r!ie dentin she r-a i !. o.-i-aus' it ; was none of Ti, public's business. Also I i -r.it didn't want F!orr-nre to know of tne : i deatlr because Florence would then re- turn to the Tabor home and the mother; uuidn't U'"c w iLh her, she told Mrs. '-'aj Pic; '.-nee Tabor Cnt'-hlnw, -istor oi' Maude, is still in the county jail at Pawl l';tw, but lu-r attorney, William fiarnard, i auoouiH-'-d tonight at the inquest, tnat. he : vou'd serve Siieriff Andrew Lang with a writ demanding her release. TV; i Ti'! u est was continued until De-.e De-.e urber 10- |