Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-06-13 | Page 1 | Publisher of Bibles Faces Embezzlement

I PUBLISHER OF BIBLES FACES EMBEZZLEMENT NEW YORK June 13 Cas Cas Casper per W. W Hodgson who was ex dent Hoovers Hoover's classmate at Stanford university was accused today of embezzling em embezzling from his own Bible publishing firm and spending it It-in It in inthe the rather trite words of ot the complaint com corn plaint plaint on on wine women and song The accusation was made by one of ot othis his editors Dr Arthur S S. S Otis o of Yonkers N. N Y who also charged that the publisher had fled to California and now is 15 living in luxury on one of his several ranches And the book magnates magnate's wife wire Mrs Balm Hodgson who was named mImed as codefendant in Otis' Otis suit to collect joined In the thc tirade by accusing accusing ac ae- ac- ac cusing her husband of leaving her penniless and stranded in New York The name of ot Hodgson was not new to the supreme court in White Plains where the Otis suit was placed on file toda today In 1929 1920 he was sued for b by Mrs Josephine Anderson Phillips Phillip erstwhile parlor maid in his Yonkers home who claimed he seduced seduced seduced se se- se- se her Three years later r. r Miss iss Mildred Fortunate fortunato Hodgson's former secretary secretary secretary secre secre- tary sued him for tor on a sImilar similar simi sImi- lar charge chare I