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Nov. 20, 1930
HARTINGTON — The trial of E.E. Collins, the former cashier of the closed Hartington National Bank, was in federal court at Omaha on charges of violation of the national banking laws.
The trial ended abruptly last Thursday when Federal Judge Woodrough instructed the jury to free Collins because the prosecution had failed to prove its case.
The particular charge that occupied most of the trial was an alleged misapplication by Collins of $14,000 worth of certificates of deposit belonging to Fred Joosten, who mysteriously disappeared in 1918.
The government attempted to prove by various witnesses that Joosten was dead and that the money he had left in the bank had been wrongfully used by the defendant.
An investigator for the federal department of Justice was called to give detailed accounts of what had been done with the money, stating that among other things, “$3,000 had been transferred to the Collins Investment Company.”
Collins himself was on the witness stand when the trial was ended so suddenly.
His attorneys interrupted his testimony to call for a directed verdict from the judge. The Judge also declared while it was not explained how Collins came to have the certificates, the government had failed to include testimony that detailed fraud.
Nov. 27, 1930
HARTINGTON — Emmett V. Maun, son of Mr. and Mrs. A.E. Maun, of Laurel is more than making good in the advertising field in New York City. An announcement received by the News this week tells of the opening of his own offices there under the name of Emmett V. Maun Inc. For several years Emmett has been connected with another advertising agency in New York, but has resigned from that firm to start into business for himself.
The new business is located at 25 West 43rd Street in New York City and does a general business as advertising and publicity consultants.
Nov. 27, 1930
HARTINGTON — “C.H. Brown,” mysterious hog thief who claims his residence as Hartington, was given a sentence of six months in the penitentiary when tried at Le-Mars, Iowa last week, but was later paroled to the farmer from whom he was accused of stealing the hogs.
“Brown” maintained the hiding of his true identity during the duration of the trial and was sentenced under that name. Brown fell into the grasp of the law early this month when he was arrested at the Sioux City stockyards while trying to sell some hogs that had been stolen from the Philip Schneider farm near Hinton, Iowa.
Nov. 27, 1930
HARTINGTON — Harvey R. Sorensen, for a number of years junior partner in the implement firm of Sorensen and Son, with houses in Coleridge, Hartington and Wayne, will leave Hartington the first of the year to take a position as ‘block supervisor” for the block men working for the John Deere Plow Company in Sioux Falls, S.D.
