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Long-Sought Ex-Official Writes Wife 47
Letter of Former Nelson Attorney, Dan Arnold, Postmarked Las Vegas
Bardstown. Ky., June26. - Mrs. Dan S. Arnold, wife the former Nelson County attorney who disappeared last July 3, revealed tonight that she has received a "rather lengthy" letter from her husband.
The letter, postmarked Las Vegas, Nev.. reached her about May 6. she said. In it her husband wrote that he was eager for news from home.
He told her to put such information into the personals columns of three major newspapers. Mrs. Arnold said she had not done this.
Since Arnold's disappearance, five warrants accusing him of passing forged and cold checks totaling S3.800 have been issued.
The attornev's wile said Arnold gave her no mailing address.
She would not confirm that her husband's family has now paid back most of the money due on the had checks he is charged with passing, although "there has been talk of it."
"I hate to have all this publicized." she said. "I think chances of finding him would be greater if it weren't."
Bardstown's chief of police, L. H. Newton, indicated today that he has information on Arnold's general whereabouts. He declined to reveal the source of his knowledge, however.
He also feared that publicity about the letter would get back to Arnold and cause him to leave his present location.
The Federal Bureau nf Investigation has no authority to search for the missing attorney,
according to Edward L. Boyle, special agent in Louisville. The Fugitive Felony Act, which covers persons who leave states to avoid eight kinds of felony prosecutions, does not include offenses with which Arnold is charged.
The U.S. district attorney's office at Louisville, however, said it is "definitely interested" in Arnold from a revenue standpoint.
Officials of the Internal Revenue Bureau's Louisville office said their records do not show where Arnold filed or paid his 1951 federal income tax.
They also are unable to locate returns or tax payments for "about 60 per cent' of the 47
names on a partial list of taxpayers who had employed Arnold to handle their 1951 income-tax affairs.
Arnold, 38, was serving his second term as County attorney when he disappeared. Father of
two children, he was a World War II veteran and member of the country-club set.
He was last seen by Claude Carney, Bardstown taxi driver, who took him to the Hermitage
Hotel in Louisville shortly after midnight July 3.

Probers Hear of Checks And Nelson Attorney48
4 Women Still Apparently Are Married After Missing Man Said He Got Them Divorces
By HUGH MORRIS, Staff Correspondent, The Courier-Journal, Bardstown, Ky., July 16, 1952
The strange story of the disappearance of Nelson County Attorney Dan S. Arnold was unfolded today before the investigators of the Kentucky State Bar Association.

The investigators, who will report their findings July 25 to the State Board of Bar Commissioners
at their regular quarterly meeting in Louisville, were Guy Dickinson,
assistant attorney general, and Pat Rankin, Stanford Attorney.

The investigators were told that:
1. Four women, who said Arnold told them he had obtained divorces for them, apparently are still married, since no record of judgments in the cases was found in Circuit Court records.
2. A fifth woman, also a client of Arnold's, who believed she was not divorced because no order was entered in the court's judgment book, actually is divorced. Investigators
turned up a judgment in her case, signed by former Circuit Judge L. B. Handley, tucked away with the record in the files of the Circuit Court clerk. Divorce Actions Pending
3. There are at least eight other divorce actions pending on the Circuit Court clerk's docket, all represented by Arnold, in which no judgments have been entered. But investigators had no way of
learning today whether any of these plaintiffs have been assured by Arnold that they are actually divorced.
4. An $1,800 check in settlement of a divorce action by Mrs. Bessie L. Burnette against her husband, J. F. Burnette, has been found with Mrs. Burnette's name allegedly forged to the back.
5. The day Arnold disappeared, he cashed a number of personal checks with friends and at places of business throughout the county on which payees say they have been unable to obtain their money. Check Is for $1,500
6. Arnold also cashed three checks, totaling $800, drawn on the Nelson County Fiscal Court and bearing countersigning signatures that Charles W. Roby, County Court clerk, and T. E. Stoner, County treasurer say are not theirs.
7. A check for $1,500 made out to Arnold and another man and carrying both names as endorsement
also was cashed July 3. L. A. Faurest, Elizabethtown, said the check was signed "Faurest & Faurest Law Firm, by L. A. Faurest, Jr.”

The investigators talked this morning with Mrs. Jaunita June Sharp, 19, who filed an affidavit June 14 with the State. Bar Association charging that Arnold had represented her in a divorce case
and gave her a faked decree.; Mrs. Sharp said today that Arnold told her early in March that her divorce against her soldier-husband, Moseley Eugene Sharp, had been granted. But her Army allotment checks continued to come in and she became suspicious, she related.
Demands Fee Back
"I asked (Circuit) Judge W. R. Gentry if I really was divorced,"Mrs. Sharp continued. 'He checked the records and said no, I wasn’t." Mrs. Sharp said she called on Arnold on June 11 and told him what the judge had said. "He told me there was some misunderstanding and that he would see the judge and straighten it out," she added. Later, Mrs. Sharp said, she got the judge and Arnold together on the telephone and was told flatly there was no divorce judgment filed in the case. Mrs. Sharp said
she demanded her $45 fee back and got it in a check which she cashed immediately.
Asks Judge To Check
Mrs. Sara Alice O'Hara Ballard, 31, said Arnold gave her a typewritten copy of her divorce judgment against William Julian Ballard on June 12 and several days later she learned it was fake3. "I asked Judge Beeler to check for me and he said he could not find any record of my divorce,” Mrs. Ballard said. Judge R. Lee Beeler is Nelson County judge. Mrs. Ballard gave investigators the document she said Arnold had
given her. It purported to be a copy of a divorce judgment, at tested by Circuit Court Clerk
J. W. Arnold, father of the missing County attorney.
"That's not my signature, the elder Arnold told investigators this afternoon. "Why, that suit wasn’t even file until May 12. It didn't even get on the last docket, the clerk added. The elder Arnold, who has served as Circuit Court clerk for the past 24 years, was visibly affected by the growing number of complaints against his son. Al though most County offices close on Wednesday afternoons, he reopened his office to make records available to the investigators and a reporter. ;
Can't Find Papers?
The elder Arnold was unable to find any of the original papers in the Ballard case. "Dan took them up to his office," he recalled. "Said he wanted to make out some warning orders. But that is not my handwriting. In my judgment, it is his," the father added. Mrs. Clara Riley Pennington, 41, said Arnold told her two years ago, in February, 1950, he had obtained a divorce for her from Ray Pennington, her soldier-husband. It was not until last May, when her husband telephoned her from Alabama to tell her the news, that she learned she was not divorced. "I called Dan's attention to it, but he reassured me that my divorce had gone through," Mrs. Pennington said. "I asked Dan's father, Mr. Arnold, the clerk, but he said no, there was no judgment in my case. I also asked Dan's secretary to see if she could find my divorce, but she couldn't. Dan's father told me not to worry, that by June it would be O. K." Mrs. Pennington said she doesn't want the divorce now. "My husband, who has spent eight years in the Army, is very sick in a hospital in Alabama. If he should die, I would- - lose all my pension benefits if I was divorced," she explained.
Words Are Different
Investigators found that Clara Pennington and Roy Pennington were divorced in February, 1948, in a decree signed by Judge Handley. Later, however, they remarried. Mrs. Pennington said the second time she asked Arnold to get her a divorce, he gave her in February, 1950, what purported to be a judgment signed by Judge Handley. But the Circuit Court clerk's judgment book for March 1, 1951, shows a judgment worded differently from the one Arnold gave Mrs. Pennington, signed by Special Judge Henry L. Brooks, Louisville. The clerk's minute book, labeled "Memorandum Book 5," shows on Page 366 that the Pennington suit was filed January 22, 1951, and appearances entered. The elder Arnold was asked by investigators if the entry was in his handwriting. "I think so," he replied.
'I Don't Believe It Is’
But Rankin examined the entry more closely. "I don't believe that's your handwriting," he said. ; "No, I don't believe it is," the clerk said after another look. "Look here at this a' and this '1' . . . they're not like these others," Rankin persisted. "You wouldn't make an 'a' like that . . ." . "I don't believe I would." the elder Arnold admitted. "No, I am sure of it. That's not in my handwriting." : A further check of the judgment book showed that Judge Handley, whose name was typed to the faked decree given Mrs. ' Pennington, was ill and not on the bench from April 4, 1950, to September 18, 1950 the period when he is supposed to have approved the divorce. The clerk also was unable to find any depositions in his file on the case, although the Memorandum Book showed in a notation, 'Depositions filed." The elder Arnold said he guessed Dan must have taken this record to his office, too. It is common practice among lawyers in Nelson County to borrow case records from time to time, the clerk said. "Of course, he could have copied the doggone judgment in there. I just can't remember that far tack," the father added. Investigators asked to see the record of Marie Hay against Verna Hay. Mrs. Hay had told them she had received a copy of a divorce judgment in March, 1952.
Number Changed
The Memorandum Book, on Page 403, showed the suit was filed January 10, 1952, and the case originally was numbered 3481, but this had been scratched out and the case number 3151 written in its place. The court docket showed the case was continued at the last term of court and no steps have been taken in the case. No order :in the Hay case was found in the judgment book. The investigators, next turned to the case of Thelma Lands against Bennie Lands. Mrs. Lands 'said she doesn't think she is divorced from her husband. Arnold handled the case. No judgment appeared in the judgment book.
Judgment Not In Book
The Clerk's Memorandum Book, Page 203, showed this suit was ; filed March 17, 1947 and assigned case number 6180. No judgement could be found in the judgement book. UOOK. . - . . "Let's see the record in that case," suggested Dickinson. The clerk complied, handing the investigators a blue-black sheaf of legal papers. . "Why, here's a judgment, signed by Judge Handley," Rankin exclaimed. Ana sure enough, there in the files was a final decree granting Mrs. Lands a divorce and ordering her husband to pay her $12-a-week maintenance. It bore the handwritten notational the bottom. Enter L. B. Handley, Judge." The clerk was unable to explain why the judgment had ever been entered on the judgment book.
Divorce Thought Legal
Is Mrs. Land's divorce legal. asked the reporter? The investigators said they thought it was, but that it should be acted on immediately as soon as court reopens in the fall. The clerk's docket book showed these cases, represented by young, Arnold, still without judgments: Mary I. Brickey vs. Roy T. Brickey; Mack St. Clair vs. Myrtle St. Clair; Henry Moss vs. Mary E. Moss; Roland White vs. Doris White; Harry W. Holiest June--D. Holt; Robert N. Cotton vs. Juanita Cotton; and Elsie Newton vs. John E. Newton. Ernest Fulton, Bardstown attorney who has been named acting County attorney since young Arnold's absence, gave investigators details on the many checks cashed by the missing man on the day he disappeared.
Check Cashers Interviewed
In addition, Mrs. Elizabeth W. Spaulding, editor of The Kentucky Standard, Bardstown's weekly newspaper, interviewed as many check recipients as she could reach. They presented this picture: Three checks tilling $800 drawn on Nelson County funds were cashed at banks in the county on July 3 the day Arnold disappeared. Faked as payments for salary and office rent, they were payable to Arnold and endorsed on the back in his name The names of E. T. Roby, County Court deck, and T. E. Stoner, County treasurer, countersigned to the checks, are not their signatures, the two men said. One check, for $325, was cashed at Muir, Wilson, and Muir, Bloomfield. Another was cashed at the People’s Bank at Chaplin. The third, $250, was cashed at the Bank of New Haven. A page of three checks, is reported missing from the check book in the County clerk's office. Arnold was reported to have visited the banks the afternoon of July 3, riding in a taxi. The $1,500 check bearing the signature of Faurest & Faurest Law Firm, by L. A. Faurest, Jr., was returned to the First Hardin Bank from a Bardstown bank last week. It was endorsed "Dan S. Arnold" and "Roy Walls."Faurest said at Elizabethtown the account was an old one and had been closed for years. A check for $1,800 given by J. F. Burnette in settlement of a divorce action brought by his wife, was made payable to Arnold and Mrs. Bessie Burnette. Burnette said the name of his wife, written on the check, was not her signature. A check bearing the signature of H. S. Enlow, LaRue County farmer living near Athertonville, was used by Arnold to pay for some clothes he bought at Spaulding & Sons men's store July 3, and about $140 difference reportedly was given Arnold in change.
Drawn on Loretto Bank
The check on Enlow was drawn on the Bank at Loretto. Enlow says he has never had an account there and that Arnold was just a "casual acquaintance." Enlow told The Standard he has learned that two other forged checks bearing his name have turned up. The Farmers Bank Sc Trust Company, on which most of the checks were drawn, carries a blanket bond that covers losses from forgery and a-- local insurance firm said their losses will be paid. The Standard said checks cashed for Arnold July 3 are being held by the following: Beam's Liquor Store $200, Tyler Head's Marathon Station $75, Joe's Liquor Store $75, Grigsby Sales & Service $50, Talbott Drugstore $25, Tom Pig's Restaurant $80, J's Hamburger $50, Crume Drugstore $50, Stephen Foster Hotel $20, Joe's Place $100, Chattie Woodward, Arnold's secretary, a week's salary check; P. D. Johnson, New Haven, $150; Marty Clark, Ball-tow- n, $50. The Standard said John Sanders, Woodlawn, reported he was out nearly $200 in money Arnold had collected on a note for him. Said He Planned Trip
The story Arnold gave was practically the same every place. He said he was planning a trip over the Fourth of July week end and needed a little extra money. It was late in the afternoon and at night whence made his rounds. The banks already had closed for the day. Claude Carney, Bardstown taxi driver, said he took Arnold to the Hermitage Hotel in Louisville around midnight July 3. When he left, Carney said Arnold told him all his trips that day were on official County business and that. if he would present his taxi bill, amounting to $60, to Judge Beeler, the County would pay it.
Arnold has not been seen since that time. No charges have been filed against Arnold in Nelson County.

No Hunt On Yet for Nelson Attorney49
More Report Apparent Cases Of Swindling
By HUGH MORRIS, Staff Correspondent, Tho Courier-Journal, Bardstown, Ky,. July 18, 1952
Although Nelson County Attorney Dan S. Arnold has been missing for 15 days, no official search for him has been started, so far as could be learned today. Although an estimated $10,000 worth of cold and forged checks, fraudulent divorce decrees, and clients' unfiled income tax returns have come to light since Arnold disappeared July 3, no formal charges have been filed against the missing attorney.
County Judge R. Lee Beeler has scheduled a court of inquiry for 10 a.m. Monday and this hearing is expected to result in formal charges against Arnold.

Cashiers To Testify
Subpoenaed to testify Monday are Harold Pulliam, cashier of the People's State Bank at Chaplin; Davis Lee Huston, cashier of Muir, Wilson & Muir Bank at Bloomfield; Edgar Stoner, Nelson County treasurer and cashier of Farmers Bank & Trust Company of Bardstown; Tom "Pig" Stocker, operator of a Bardstown liquor store, and Tyler Head, operator of a service station here. Arnold cashed three checks, totaling $800, at the three banks on the afternoon of the day he disappeared. The checks, drawn on the Nelson County Fiscal Court, were reported by Stoner to be forgeries. Stocker and Head on July 3 cashed personal checks for Arnold on which they have been unable to collect.

Forgery Loss Not Insured
The Farmers Bank here, which believed its insurance policy protected it against forgery, learned today from Ernest its attorney, that its policy doesn’t cover forgery losses. A Bardstown beer licensee, who said she gave Arnold $57 to get her alcoholic beverage - licenses renewed, reported - today he had left her without permits when the fiscal year started on July 1. Mrs. Maxine Graham, operator of Hilltop Inn at the south city limits, said she gave Arnold the money to obtain renewed licenses the latter part of June. "When the licenses hadn't come by July 1, I asked Dan what was the matter," Mrs. Graham related. "He told me he was going to Frankfort that day and 4 would check for me. That afternoon I saw him and he told me the licenses were in the mail, not to worry.” Mrs. Graham added that Arnold told her it would be all right to continue selling beer without her new license since it had been issued but was en route in the mails. On Wednesday, when the license still hadn't arrived, Mrs. Graham said she went to Frankfort and learned from Malt Beverage Administrator Julian Elliott that her application for a renewal had not even been received by the State Alcoholic Beverage Control Board. "So, I had to hand over another $57," Mrs. Graham said. "He took me like he took the rest of them around here.”

Mortgaged Another's Property
It was discovered today that several years ago, Arnold got $3,760 from a friend, giving as security a mortgage on property he didn't own. In the office of County Clerk Charles W. Roby are records of mortgages and deeds to property. In Mortgage Book 44, page 41, is recorded a mortgage note dated February 11, 1950, for $3,760 in favor of C. J. Bowling, a New Haven cattleman. Securing the note is a mortgage on two tracts of land in Cathedral Manor Subdivision. The note is purported
to be signed by Dan S. Arnold and Nancy Stiles Arnold his wife. Bowling was reluctant to discuss
the matter. Asked if he gave Arnold the money in exchange for the mortgage and note, Bowling replied, That's the way it would appear from the record, wouldn’t it?" “Here’s how I feel about this thing.” Bowling said. "It happened some time ago, there’s nothing I can do about it, and I don't care to discuss it.” In the clerk's office in Deed Book 120, page 26, it is recorded that Mrs. Will Stiles, mother of Mrs. Arnold, transferred the two lots pledged on the mortgage to her daughter on October 15, 1947. County Court records show that Mrs. Nancy Stiles Arnold is sole owner of the property. Mrs. Arnold, asked if she had signed the mortgage and note along with her husband, replied: "I knew nothing about it."

Taxpayers Invited To Check
In Louisville, meanwhile, A. H.Childress, chief field deputy of the United States collector of Internal Revenue, invited Nelson County taxpayers who had dealings with Arnold to come to the Bardstown collector's office “and let us check to see if their tax returns are in good order.” The Bardstown collector's office is on the second floor of the Post Office Building here. Two taxpayers, who had asked Arnold to file and pay their 1951 income taxes, learned yesterday that neither their tax nor their returns have been received by the Government.

,Judge Shelves 4 Sentences of Dan Arnold Former Nelson Attorney Faces 2 Year Term50
Bardstown, Ky., Nov. 19, 1953 The last of the forgery and cold-check charges against Dan S. Arnold were disposed of here yesterday and the former Nelson County attorney may be a free man in about eight months.
Circuit Judge W R. Gentry ordered suspended sentences for the lawyer on one bad check and three forgery charges.
That leaves Arnold with a two-year sentence to LaGrange Reformatory for forgery. He could be free on good behavior in about eight mopths.
But Arnold's attorney, John A. Fulton of Louisville, said there are still some income-tax charges to be settled in Federal Court next week. Arnold will plead guilty to those charges, said Fulton.
Disappeared In 1952
A prominent lawyer, Arnold vanished from Bardstown in July, 1952, leaving behind a batch of bad checks, tangled legal affairs, and income-tax irregularities.
He came back home last August, as he said, to "face the music" and pleaded guilty to the charges against him.
On November 9 he formally entered his plea and was given the minimum two-year sentence on one forgery charge. The other four charges, carrying a total sentence of seven years, were those disposed of by Judge Gentry yesterday.

Court of Appeals Disbars Ollie Cohen and Dan Arnold, Louisville and Bardstown Attorneys Got Terms; Richmond Lawyer Reprimanded51
1955. Louisville attorney Ollie James Cohen and Bardstown attorney Dan S. Arnold yesterday were disbarred from practicing law in Kentucky.
The Court of Appeals, which ordered the disbarments, also publicly reprimanded Richmond attorney Carl F. Eversole.
All actions were on recommendation of the State Board of Bar Commissioners. The board based its recommendations on reports of trial committees.
Cohen is now in LaGrange Reformatory and Arnold was paroled from Federal Penitentiary at Terre Haute, Ind., last December.
The Appellate Court upheld the bar commissioners' charge that Cohen was guilty of unprofessional conduct and Arnold of unprofessional and unethical conduct. It found that Eversole had given advice in letter to a client.
Furor Was Created
Arnold, who was Nelson County attorney, created a furor there he disappeared in July 1952. He was later indicted by both the Nelson County grand jury and a United States grand Yesterday's Court of Appeals opinion said the bar commissioners reported Arnold had represented to Mrs. Juanita Sharp that he had procured a divorce for her. They also reported that he had given her what he claimed was a copy of the divorce judgement, signed by Nelson Circuit Judge William R. Gentry,
“In fact, the case had not been submitted to Judge Gentry and he had not entered judgment therein, nor had he signed the purported copy of the judgment handed Mrs. Sharp," the opinion added.
‘Fled the Country’
It said Arnold “fled the country” after being indicted, but returned to Bardstown October 15, 1953. He declined to answer or contest the bar board’s charges against him, the opinion stated.
Arnold was paroles last July 23 from Kentucky State Reformatory at LaGrange from a two year sentence given on the charge of uttering forgery, according to recrds of the State Division of Parole and Probation.
Upon is release from LaGrange, Arnold was handed over to U.S. officials and taken to the federal Penitentiary at Terre Haute. He had been sentenced to a year and a day in Federal District Court here after he pleaded guilty to charges of failing to file income-tax returns for his clients.