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] Bride Confesses to
Killing of Husband
and Father-in-Law
Muskegon, Mich.—Mrs. Meda Ho-:
dell, 26, a bride of a year,-, eat* ia> -the.;
> court house at White Olood,'NewaygO’i
county, this afternoon, and without;
tears told bow she had poisoned her!
father-in-law, David Hodell, 67 years
old, Februarv 4, and then had slain her
husband, Romie D. Hodell, 31 years
old, .May 6. Her mother, Mrs. Alice
Dudgeon, and two brothers, Lee and
Herman, as well as Robert Bennett,,
farm hand, are jointly charged with
the murder of the younger Hodell.
•‘David Hodell came to our. place
after his wife died,” testified the bride.
“He was feeble and required a great
amount of attention, so I decided he
would be better oil dead. I placed a
spoonful of arsenic in his coffee at noon
and a short time later -h© fell as he
- started to open the door, with an arm
ful of wood. He died-, in a few min-,
utes.”
Mrs Hodell, in her sworn confession,
says she told her mother, and brothers
of killing her father-in-law, but not
her husband.
“We had been fighttng and, quarrel
reads the second confession, “and
fvim-ie was lying on a cot. * I picked up.
a rolling pin and struck him twice on
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the base of the brain as he slept . I j
then felt rather sorry an*i lay down by
his side.
“He was still quivering, and brother,
who was nearby, struck him attain.
.Lee was called by mother, and he >
called Herman and Bennett. We final |
lv decided to hang the body to a rafter j
in the bam. The boys placed the body j
in a wagon and drove it to the barn. j
They then put a harness reiu atmui the
neck aud tied it to a rafter. In the
afternoon they drove to town and re
ported to the officials they had found
the body tied to a rafter.
Newaygo officials found the body,
also alleged death notes written by
Hodell. Physicians who examined the
body held that death was due to a blow
just below the ear.
Then, some weeks later, dissatisfied
with the progress made by the officers.
Hodell’s neighbors formed a iyuching
party. They placed ropes about the
Dudgeon boys’ necks, and they made a
confession charging that Bennett killed
Hodell and forced them to help hang
the body to a rafter. Thev later re
pudiated this confession and the state
police were called.
Sworn confessions were made bv Mrs.
Dudgeon and her two sons bearing out
in all details the confession made by
the widow. The four made uew con
fessions to the prosecutor today, the
same in all details. All waived exam -
ination and were bound over to the
circuit court. Bennett denies, guilt,
but is also charged with murder.
The Dudgeoos and Hodells lived on
adjoining farms in the owamy lands of
■ Goowill township.
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Marshal's Sals.
Under aDd by virtue of an execution
issuediout of the District Court for the
Fourth division, Territory of Alaska,
in an action wherein Robert Lockwood
was plaintiff and Tuluksak Gold Win
ing Company, a corporation, was de
fendant, upon a judgment rendered ou
the 3rd day of July, 1922. in favor of
said plaintiff and against said defend
ant, for the sum of iwo thousand ore
hundred eighty five dollars ($2.185.00;,
current lawful money of the United
States of America. with intv rest at the
rate of 8 (ter ceui per annum, costs, and
increased costs, I did, on the 2nd day
of September. 1922, levy upon all the
right, title, claim, and interest of said
defendant iD and to the following de
scribed real property, to-wit: That
certain placer mining claim known and
described as 'Spruce Creek Aesoeia
lion”, aud also that .certain placer min
ing claim known and described as the
“MinnieClairn”, both said claims belt)*:
situate on Spruce creek, a tributary of
Bear creek. Beibel recording precinct.
Fourth judicial division. Alasha, and
also that certain ditch ami water right
known aud described as the £>oruce
Creek Ditch and Water Right, said
ditch extending from the bead of Little
Bonanza creek, a tributary of Bear
creek, to a point on Spruce creek,
aforesaid, near the lower end of saici
Spruce Creek Association Placer Min
ing Claim, together with all vested
rights to divert the waters of said Lit
tle Bonanza creek into said ditch.
And I did, ou the 3rd day of Septem
ber, 1922, levy upon all the right, title,
claim, and interest of the said defend
ant in and to the following described
real property, to-wit: That certain
placer mining claim known and de
scribed as the "Little Bonanza Associa
tion”, situate on Little Bonanza creek,
a tributary of Bear creek aforesaid.
' Notice is hereby given that I will, on
the 15th day of December, 1922, at 10
o'clock a. m of said clay, at the office of
the United States Marshal, in the town
of Flat, Alaska, sell at public auction,
for current lawful money of the United
States of America, all t he right, title,
claim ,and interest of said defendant in
and to the above described property,or
so much thereof as may be necessary
to satisfy said judgment, with interest
and costs, and increased costs, to the
highest hsdder.
Dated this 27»h dav of September,
A. D. 1922, at Flat, Alaska.
Gilbert B Stevens,
United States Marshal,
1 By James A. Davidson,
Special Deputy Marshal.
Alsace Germans Seek U. S.
Passes to Dodge the French
Strassbourg.—Erstwhile naturalised
Americans, who during the war were
satisfied ro be regarded as Germans are
ajain 'tying to take recourse in Amer
ican citizenship as the French com- j
uaence to apply sanctions against Ger
many. An average of five, apply daily
to the American consul here ior a re
newal of old passports, some antedating
the war.
Among the applications, however,
are several who refused to live here
under the Germans and emigrated to j
the United States, returning v/ben
France took over Alsace-Lorraine.
Now when the French contemplate
i deportations, depriving rhe Germans of
credits, sequestering bank deposits,
aod 'holdingother property, many claim
their property should be exempted as
owned bv Americans. Every applica
tion for passports at the American con
sulate is thoroughly examinee, the rea
soos ascertained for neglecting to reg
ister at the consulate, and the motives
for living here before tfaev reported to
the Paris embassy.
, Rod McKenzie, one of the most wide
ly known old-timers iojbe Interior,
and a charter memberof Nenana igloo
Pioneers of Alaska, died at the Gov
ernment, hospital in that city, recently
following a brief illness.
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