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Show OGDEHITE CETS FAKE DEATH WIRES ' i PLOT TO STEAL COILO SEEN II MYSTERY CASE Father Finds Son Well in Great Falls After Getting Death I Telegram RESIDENCE ATTACKED NIGHT OF DEPARTURE Montana Police Look for Man and Woman Who Sent Fake Messages A kidnaping si heme i believed to have been thwarted In (gden last) Thursday night, after I" B Hume, I proprietor of the ogden Employment office had been called to Great Falls, I Mont , on fictitious telegraph m" vig-s telltng of the death of his son.; P. Hume in that city. At midnight Thursday, while Mr Humo was speeding northward to I Great Falls to attend the funeral of his supposed!) deud son, an unknown man attempted to gain entrant e to the hnn f.n?. Thirtieth street bn! was diiven off and escuped alter William Wil-liam Hume, another son, had procured a gun. vlr Home can niii.c at no other ex1&tinttbn ro the mysterj but that plans were laid to kidnap his ten-vcar-old daughter, after he had been called from the city by the fake telegraph tele-graph messages. Mr. and -Mrs. ttume and thlr son. Earl, left ogden Thursday after a message mes-sage had been received which said. Deeply regret to Inform you of ur sons death here this morning. Wife very ill." Tot N I SON I I I They arrived In Great Kails lo find the one believed dead in the best of health and the origin of Lhe messages vvhl. h called them from Ogden, a complete com-plete mystery!. Another message came to Ogden the day following the departure of Mr. ami Mrs Hume which said. ' Your son li Hume will be buried Saturda? St - 30. Why cannot we hear from you 7 ' The first wire which misinformed Mr. Hume of the son's death was signed by a person unknown to Mi Hume, J C. Lirown." Immediately upon arrival in Grent Falls, and finding his son living, Mr. Hume went to the telegraph office th.-re in an endeavor to determine who sent the fake message. s s r BY WOMAN The clerk said the sender of the death message was a woman The clerk declared she was g stranger, buti she could Identify her if she saw her again. The sender of tho funeral notice no-tice message, the clerk said, was a man, unknown to her and she would not be able to Identify him. Scenting a possible plot to kidnap his daughter whom ho had left In Ogden, Mr. Hume hurried home His sun i ..i.l him of the attempt of the mysterious man to break Into the. Hume home, which led Mr. Hume to belleva more stronglj that a plot had, been planned. He now believes that the action of his son In obtaining a gun and driving the man' away, thwarted a possible attempt tn make awav with his ten-year-old daughter. son s STOK1 . William Hume, who declared he; drove the mysterlQUS stranger awai from the Hume home Thursday night said this morning "I heard a sound on the pon h about midnight Investigating fur-i ther, I saw a man peering in one ofi the windows. He tried the screen., which was locked, and then moved to; another window He tried this win-, dow and then moved to the third. I hurried to my room and procured B gun The man evidently heard me moving about and had disappeared when I returned to the window." Mr. and Mrs. Humo left ' gden fori Great Falls Thursday at 12 30 o clock, aft'-r receiving the first message con-' talnlng the news of the death of their1 6on. Before leaving Ogden Mr Hume' sent a message to his son'K wife In. re.it Falls saying that he would ar-live ar-live there In time for th funeral. SENDS o i HER MESSAGES. While en route he sent two other, messages, In which he gave further! details of the trip and limn of hK ..r rival, In order that the plans for the funeral could be made to conform With his arrival there. In the meantime, "Bud" Hume, in treat Pall- th supposedly dead son ' had received his father's messages an. I bad Immediately telegraphed back to Ogden that everyone there was in! good health. EVEN BENDS WREATH. Ills wire reached Ogden Just after Mr and Mrs. Hume had left for Great Falls. Before boarding the train here Mr. Hume sent a funeral vvr.-ath b parcel post. Mr. Hume's daughter, Bernlce, In I Igden, telegraphed J. C. Brown, sender send-er of the fake message, asking for more details. When no J. C. Brown coul be located there who knew anything any-thing of the matter, the wire was de-1 llvered to "Bud" Hume. "I believed when 1 received the first i telegram, that J. C Brown was a physician or undertaker In Great Falls," Mr. Hume sahl today. "1 can find no trace of any Hum. who died in Great Palla It ma have been a band of kidnapers who have been causing considerable trouble in Ogden recently who wished to get me out of tho city, and took this means of doing so, in order they might kidnap my daughter." Mr Hume arrived back In Ogden this morning He said that he will Investigate the affair further. |
