Plotted To Steal A Million

Some sensational testimony was glven before Judge Barr at Louisville, Ky., a day or two ago, which revive3 the story of the theft oL a Ï35.000 package from the Adams Express company a few years ago. Before the arguments in the damage suit of Mra. Eugenia Elrod against the Adams Express company were begun counsel for the expresa company introduced as evidence an alleged confession made by Mrs. Minnie B. Ketchum, Charles Hardin's fcimer wife. In this confession she states unft. ncr husband had told her that Charlton Elrod got him a position with the express company with the understanding that they were to steal at least $1,000,000 from the company. Hardin came home one ing with about $1,000, and said that he had stolen $35,000 and had turned the most of it over to Elrod. They went to Cincinnati, where ho gave Mrs. Braun, his mother-in-law, ?2,000, with whioh she bought a house in MoreIrid, a suburb of Chicago. They made ilieir home there for a while, having gotten from Elrod $13,000. From time o time, Mrs. Ketchum says, Elrod had visited them and gotten back as much of Ae money as they would give him. .Before Hardin was arrested he had ;iven his parents in Arkansas $2,000, with which they had purohased a home. :t will be remembered that Hardin was acquitted of this robbery in Nashville, where he was taken for trial. He is now in the Michigan City, Ind., prison for anoth.er offense.