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---
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category: "Law Enforcement & Legal"
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tags:
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- Person
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- Judge
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- FederalJudiciary
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- BucksCounty
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- RCHorsch
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alias:
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- Donald West VanArtsdalen
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- Donald W. VanArtsdalen
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summary: "Bucks County prosecutor and federal judge in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania from 1970 who added a year and a day to R.C. Horsch's 1985 sentence for bail-jumping."
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born: 1919-10-21
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died: 2019-05-21
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location: "Doylestown, Pennsylvania"
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relations:
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- type: employed_by
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with: "[[United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania]]"
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role: "district judge"
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start: 1970-10-15
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end: 2019-05-21
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fn: 1
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- type: appointed
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with: "[[Richard Nixon]]"
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reverse: true
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start: 1970-09-10
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fn: 1
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- type: head_of
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with: "[[Bucks County District Attorney's Office]]"
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role: "district attorney"
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start: 1954
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end: 1958
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fn: 1
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created: 2026-09-23
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updated: 2026-09-23
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Donald West VanArtsdalen (October 21, 1919, to May 21, 2019), whose name was printed as Van Artsdalen in the Philadelphia press, was the district attorney of [[Bucks County, Pennsylvania|Bucks County]] from 1954 to 1958 and a judge of the [[United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania]] from 1970 until his death at 99. In April 1985 he sentenced [[R.C. Horsch]], then Raymond Charles Hoersch, to a year and a day for bail-jumping, consecutive to the three-year methamphetamine sentence imposed by Judge [[Joseph L. McGlynn Jr.]][^1][^2]
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### Career
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VanArtsdalen was born in [[Doylestown, Pennsylvania|Doylestown]]. He served in the Canadian Army from 1940 to 1942 and in the [[United States Army]] as a sergeant from 1942 to 1945, then took an LL.B. at the [[University of Pennsylvania Law School]] in 1948 and practiced law in Doylestown until 1970, serving meanwhile as Bucks County district attorney. [[Richard Nixon]] nominated him on September 10, 1970, to a new seat created by statute; he was confirmed on October 8 and commissioned on October 15, 1970. He took senior status on October 21, 1985, and died in Doylestown on May 21, 2019.[^1] His wife, Marie Catherine VanArtsdalen, died in December 2016 after 63 years of marriage.[^3]
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### The Hoersch Sentence
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Hoersch, who had grown up in Bucks County and whose parents lived in [[Chalfont, Pennsylvania|Chalfont]], had jumped bail on a 1977 federal methamphetamine charge and spent the following seven years as a fugitive, most of them in [[New Zealand]] under a stolen name. Sentencing him for the bail offense, VanArtsdalen said that fugitives must be punished "no matter how exemplary a life they may have lived" while at large.[^2]
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### Footnotes
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[^1]: Federal Judicial Center, Biographical Directory of Article III Federal Judges, "VanArtsdalen, Donald West." https://www.fjc.gov/history/judges/vanartsdalen-donald-west
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[^2]: Smith, Jim. "Fugitive's Luck Runs Out With 4-Year Jail Sentence," *Philadelphia Daily News,* April 27, 1985, p. 8. https://www.newspapers.com/image/185948055/
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[^3]: "Marie A. VanArtsdalen," obituary, Reed and Steinbach Funeral Home, 2016. https://www.reedandsteinbach.com/obituaries/marie-a-vanartsdalen
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category: "Political Figure"
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tags:
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- Person
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- NewZealand
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- Politician
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- Customs
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- RCHorsch
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- Hugh Campbell Templeton
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summary: "New Zealand National Party minister of customs from 1978 who, with Bill Birch, announced the 1981 distillery licence for the Temuka ethanol plant of Chemical Technology Limited."
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location: "Wellington, New Zealand"
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relations:
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- type: member_of
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with: "[[Executive Council of New Zealand]]"
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role: "Minister of Customs"
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start: 1978-12-13
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end: 1982-06-15
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fn: 1
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- type: member_of
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with: "[[Executive Council of New Zealand]]"
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role: "Minister of Trade and Industry"
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start: 1981-12-11
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end: 1984-07-26
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fn: 3
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created: 2026-09-23
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updated: 2026-09-23
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Hugh Campbell Templeton is a [[New Zealand]] politician who served in the National ministry of [[Robert Muldoon]]. He was appointed Minister of Customs on December 13, 1978, in the ministry formed after the 1978 election, on the same day that [[Bill Birch]] was appointed Minister of Energy.[^1] At the reshuffle of February 12, 1981, he resigned the office of Minister of Broadcasting and kept Customs.[^2] On December 11, 1981, he gave up the office of Minister of Statistics and was appointed Minister of Trade and Industry, in succession to Lancelot Raymond Adams-Schneider.[^3][^4]
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### Customs
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A Gazette notice of June 15, 1982, records his resignation of the office of Minister of Customs and the appointment of Keith Reading Allen in his place.[^5] The Gazette's notice of the resignations of the outgoing ministers after the July 1984 election, however, lists Templeton as resigning "the Offices of Minister of Trade and Industry and Minister of Customs"; no intervening notice returning Customs to him, or removing it from Allen, has been located.[^6]
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### The Temuka Distillery
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On July 14, 1981, as Minister of Customs, Templeton announced that a licence had been approved for the distillery of [[Chemical Technology Limited]] at [[Temuka]], 15 kilometres north of [[Timaru]], "the first such commercial venture in the South Island," to make industrial ethanol mainly from whey and beet crops; the announcement was made jointly with the Minister of Energy, Birch, who said the plant would save 250,000 dollars a year in overseas funds.[^7] The company's American director, who called himself Dr Stanley Stokowski, was the fugitive [[R.C. Horsch]].
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### Footnotes
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[^1]: *New Zealand Gazette,* December 13, 1978, Extraordinary, No. 107, p. 3406 ("The Honourable Hugh Campbell Templeton, to be Minister of Customs"). https://gazette.howison.co.nz/nzg/1978/issue/107/page/3406
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[^2]: *New Zealand Gazette,* February 12, 1981, Extraordinary, No. 14, p. 323 ("The Honourable Hugh Campbell Templeton, of the office of Minister of Broadcasting"). https://gazette.howison.co.nz/nzg/1981/issue/14/page/323
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[^3]: *New Zealand Gazette,* December 11, 1981 (gazetted December 14, 1981), Supplement, No. 149, p. 3780 ("The Honourable Hugh Campbell Templeton, to be Minister of Trade and Industry"). https://gazette.howison.co.nz/nzg/1981/issue/149/page/3780
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[^4]: *New Zealand Gazette,* December 11, 1981, Supplement, No. 149, p. 3779 ("The Honourable Hugh Campbell Templeton, of the Office of Minister of Statistics"). https://gazette.howison.co.nz/nzg/1981/issue/149/page/3779
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[^5]: *New Zealand Gazette,* June 15, 1982, Supplement, No. 63, p. 1861 ("The Honourable Hugh Campbell Templeton of the Office of Minister of Customs ... The Honourable Keith Reading Allen, to be Minister of Customs"). https://gazette.howison.co.nz/nzg/1982/issue/63/page/1861
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[^6]: *New Zealand Gazette,* July 26-27, 1984, Supplement, No. 130, p. 2911 ("The Honourable Hugh Campbell Templeton, of the Offices of Minister of Trade and Industry and Minister of Customs"). https://gazette.howison.co.nz/nzg/1984/issue/130/page/2911
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[^7]: "Ethanol plant at Temuka," *The Press* (Christchurch), July 15, 1981. https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19810715.2.31
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category: "Law Enforcement & Legal"
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tags:
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- Person
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- Judge
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- FederalJudiciary
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- Philadelphia
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- OlneyHouseInvestigation
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alias:
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- John M. Younge
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summary: "Philadelphia Common Pleas judge appointed to the federal bench in 2019 and assigned the 2026 firearms and false-identification case against Eugene Horsch."
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location: "Philadelphia, Pennsylvania"
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relations:
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with: "[[United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania]]"
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role: "district judge"
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start: 2019-08-20
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fn: 1
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- type: appointed
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with: "[[Donald Trump]]"
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reverse: true
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role: "judge"
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start: 1996
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end: 2019
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with: "[[Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority]]"
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role: "deputy executive director and general counsel"
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start: 1985
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end: 1995
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John Milton Younge (born 1955) is a judge of the [[United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania]], appointed by [[Donald Trump]] in 2019. He is the judge assigned to *United States v. Horsch*, No. 2:26-cr-00296, the federal case against [[Eugene Horsch]] arising from the traffic stop of June 19, 2026, that led to the [[Olney House Investigation]].[^1][^2]
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### Career
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Younge was born in [[Philadelphia]]. He took a B.A. at [[Boston University]] in 1977, a J.D. at the [[Howard University School of Law]] in 1981, and a master's degree in judicial studies at the [[University of Nevada, Reno]] in 2011. After private practice he worked from 1985 to 1995 at the [[Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority]], as staff attorney, development legal officer, deputy executive director, and from 1990 general counsel. He sat on the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County from 1996 to 2019 and has taught as an adjunct at Delaware County Community College since 2005. He was nominated to the federal bench on July 30, 2015, and again on July 17, 2018, without a Senate vote on either occasion; Trump renominated him on January 23, 2019, to the seat vacated by Mary A. McLaughlin, and he was confirmed on July 31 and commissioned on August 20, 2019.[^1]
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### United States v. Horsch
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A federal grand jury indicted Eugene Horsch on July 9, 2026, on two counts, possession of a firearm by a felon and possession of a fraudulent federal identification document. The government moved for pretrial detention on June 30, 2026, and the defense obtained three extensions of the motions deadline, the latest filed on September 18, 2026. Eugene Horsch has not been charged in connection with the missing women.[^2][^3]
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### Footnotes
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[^1]: Federal Judicial Center, Biographical Directory of Article III Federal Judges, "Younge, John Milton." https://www.fjc.gov/history/judges/younge-john-milton
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[^2]: United States v. Horsch, No. 2:26-cr-00296 (E.D. Pa.), criminal complaint and affidavit, June 26, 2026; motion for pretrial detention, June 30, 2026; third motion for extension, September 18, 2026. Docket via CourtListener / RECAP.
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[^3]: Kramer, Jillian. "Eugene Horsch indicted in federal court on firearms, fake credentials charges," *The Philadelphia Inquirer,* July 9, 2026. https://www.inquirer.com/crime/eugene-horsch-olney-house-federal-indictment-20260709.html
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