The real Hubbard sounds like a lovely man.

Alonzo, your posts are always interesting and informative.
Your auditor did not have all the data.
A 1948 arrest was noted in Hubbard’s FBI file, according to Russell Miller. “A trifling misunderstanding over a cheque led to the embarrassment of his being arrested by the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff, fingerprinted and charged with petty theft. He was released on bail of $500 while the Sheriff’s Forgery Detail investigated the circumstances of the offence. On 19 August 1948 he was arraigned at San Gabriel Township Justice Court where he entered a plea of not guilty and waived trial by jury. However, by the time the trial date came around on 31 August, Hubbard changed his plea to guilty and was fined $25… Ron never mentioned the incident to his friends and the court files were destroyed in 1955, so it will never be known precisely what he had done wrong.” http://www.spaink.net/cos/rmiller/bfm08.htm
In a 1951 letter to the FBI, Hubbard mentioned that he had once been arrested in Los Angeles when his wife Sara left their baby unattended in a car. http://www.spaink.net/cos/rmiller/bfm11.htm
On December 16, 1952, during the PDC, Hubbarrd was arrested and briefly jailed. Helen O’Brien said, “Two detectives in plain clothes and a policeman in uniform came in. I asked them what they wanted and they said, … “We’ve got a warrant for Hubbard and we are going to take him”. My husband and I got in the paddy-wagon with Ron. They fingerprinted him and put him a cell – it was the only time he was ever behind bars. I called my brother, who was a lawyer, and he got Ron out on $1000 bail later that afternoon.” Russell Miller continues, “The cause of this spot of bother was Don Purcell, who was still doggedly pursuing Hubbard through the courts in an attempt to get some of his money back and keep the Wichita Foundation in business. When he heard Hubbard was in Philadelphia, Purcell filed an affidavit in Pennsylvania District Court accusing him of wrongfully withdrawing $9286 from the bankrupt Wichita Foundation.” http://www.spaink.net/cos/rmiller/bfm12.htm

Alonzo, your posts are always interesting and informative.
Your auditor did not have all the data.
A 1948 arrest was noted in Hubbard’s FBI file, according to Russell Miller. “A trifling misunderstanding over a cheque led to the embarrassment of his being arrested by the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff, fingerprinted and charged with petty theft. He was released on bail of $500 while the Sheriff’s Forgery Detail investigated the circumstances of the offence. On 19 August 1948 he was arraigned at San Gabriel Township Justice Court where he entered a plea of not guilty and waived trial by jury. However, by the time the trial date came around on 31 August, Hubbard changed his plea to guilty and was fined $25… Ron never mentioned the incident to his friends and the court files were destroyed in 1955, so it will never be known precisely what he had done wrong.” http://www.spaink.net/cos/rmiller/bfm08.htm
In a 1951 letter to the FBI, Hubbard mentioned that he had once been arrested in Los Angeles when his wife Sara left their baby unattended in a car. http://www.spaink.net/cos/rmiller/bfm11.htm
On December 16, 1952, during the PDC, Hubbarrd was arrested and briefly jailed. Helen O’Brien said, “Two detectives in plain clothes and a policeman in uniform came in. I asked them what they wanted and they said, … “We’ve got a warrant for Hubbard and we are going to take him”. My husband and I got in the paddy-wagon with Ron. They fingerprinted him and put him a cell – it was the only time he was ever behind bars. I called my brother, who was a lawyer, and he got Ron out on $1000 bail later that afternoon.” Russell Miller continues, “The cause of this spot of bother was Don Purcell, who was still doggedly pursuing Hubbard through the courts in an attempt to get some of his money back and keep the Wichita Foundation in business. When he heard Hubbard was in Philadelphia, Purcell filed an affidavit in Pennsylvania District Court accusing him of wrongfully withdrawing $9286 from the bankrupt Wichita Foundation.” http://www.spaink.net/cos/rmiller/bfm12.htm

Shipmate, welcome. I hope you will tell more of your story when you feel the time is right.

Shipmate, thanks for filling in some of the blanks in the Bruce Welch story. I wonder how his life went after the SO.