Telegram-herald., 1891-07-06
SIDES WITH CRIMINALS
Our Governor IN Partnership With
Grand Rapics Attorneys.
WILL WIyiyS AID BOIES C-HCa!
a Tale Of GsasslI Bians. Laasisx. Srasd
Rapids. Chief al Foiiee, IA Alleged
sSt1disr- Tso Lawyers Ana
Iss Gossfass~


Gov. Edwin B. winans. OF Michigan,
are soon exchanging phillipies full of
red light and t.n-sheet thunder tae
world need not vibrats With Wild sur
prise.
The Boies side say that the Michigan
governor has gotten himself into M
by notifying fugitive from justice that
the men of the law were on his trail.
Here's what il is ali about, rs the story
was told yesterday BY Mr.. Wade CARY,
the chief of police of Council Bluffs;
Who was at the Auditorium;
The e-pTesldent OF the mammoth
Ph0n.x Fur niture Company, of Grand
Rapids, Mich, Is charged. IN connection
with . quite notorious young swindler
named Fletcher w. Jewell. who was
some wears ago the clerk OF the Mlchl-
gan House OF Representatives, and who
left Lansing between two days upon be-
ing detected in numerous pieces OF
high-class bunco work, with having, on
false pretenses. obtained the sum OF
SIS 500 from the firm of kimbail 4
Clamp. of Council Blutfs. The firm OF
Kimball q Clamp recently completed
Ia Council Bluffs $3.50, 900 structure
Oiled the Grand Hotel. firm named
Cragin & Co.. composed OF an alleged
adventures known IS Mrs. I. A. CrAgin,
and the smooth Fletcher W. Jewell. ne
gotlated for the rental of tals hotel and
finally obtained q lease of it for five
years At rental OF $l2, 900 per annum,
on the understanding that the lessees
should embelllsh the hosteiIy with At
lease 81. 900 worth of furniture, in
which event KirItall 4 Champ were TO
advance $4,000 to their tenants.
vlce-Presidsnt smith.
of the Phoenix Company, secured the
contract for the furniture, but there
WAS beautiful lack of regularity IN
his proceedings, 1t Is claimed. After
the hotel was properly furnished tue
urbane Mr.. smith appeared on the
scene and certified to kinibaii X Champ,
who, by the way, are rich. young and
self-made, whose joint check ia worth
&. COO, 000-that the hotel contained
$40. 256.s2 worth Of furniture, and that
Cragin 4 Co. had paid him $40, 256.s2
on account by u draft drawn on Mrs.
Cragin's mother at Wilkesbarre, Pa.
Tnis is where. says Chief of Police
Cary, the artistic prevaricating quail
ties of Mr. Smith found their exempllfi-
cation. The draft for $l0, 256.s 50 was in
Mr.. smiths large and liquid eye. and
was not even as good IS the cost of
printing it. But 1t worked = good deal
better than flying machine for Mr..
Smiths purpose, and Messrs. kimball
Il Champ promptly advanced cash as
per agreement by sending the Phoenix
Furniture Company = check for $751;
800 on account Of the furniture. Mr..
Cary Gays that furniture experts from
Chicago and Minneapolis testified that
the furniture, by placing upon it a
liberal valuation, could not have been
worth originally more than $14, 900 at
the outside. instead OF the $26, 256.s2
which Mr.. Smith certified the furniture
was worth.
The Grand Hotel opened up with a
great flourish of trumpets, but the &C
tons OF the gIittering and inimitable
Jewell were sufficiently irregular to
make those who came into contact with
him think little. and by some lnscrut-
ably mysterious means the officers got
wind Of she peculiar deal, probably by
thought of the fact that Mr.. Jewell had
received y check for $500 from the
Phoenix company fact which they
must have learned in some occult
fashion. At any rate they succeeded in
getting Mrs. Cragin to give the whole
thing sway-wLich shows that the irri-
descent Jewell must have done come
sort Of crookedness to the woman who
was in the game with him, or she would
probably not have ''peached" on him.
IL Was Therefore Revealed
that the dummy draft for $40, ESQ. 80
was never intended to be paid, and was
simply . crowbar used by Mr.. Smith.
"knO wingIy, and with intention to de-
fraud, ;" as the affidavit reads, TO further
his purposes. IL WAS further revealed
that the furniture bill of s26, 256.s2 had
been padded 10 make 1t sufficiently
large to induce Kimball & Champ to
advance Crsgin Il Co. the sl3, 500.
Thus runneth the story up to the time
when Il was incorporated In an "infor-
nation and affidavit" as required by
law, and the requisitIon papers were
pronounced "air tight" by the Attor-
ney General of Iowa and signed by the
Iowa Governor with the dminutive
Presidential boomlet. armed with
which the six-foo,e1ght thief OF Police
Cary give his beautiful red mustachols
confident twist. slapped his broad
chest, and started for Lansing to pre-
sent hls documents TO the Governor aud
''get that man smith"
Wnen Mr.. Cary walked into Coy.
winan's Office with his little bunch OF
papers. the Governor looked at him
with that calm bovine eye of hIs and
sad ooh. you are the chief OF police
from ksowDcil Bluffs, are yss And ye
want to get Mr.. smith, do yes Wall,
reckon. bat | hev promised 10 notify
Mr.. VANITY. the at-turney for Smith. a.
soon as you got on tue trail of hls
client with them papers; I'll Jest tele-
graph him now. and suiting the &C.
ton 10 the word the Democratic execu.
tive Of the great Wolverine pulled a
blank ont OF drawer and wrote = mes
sage to Attorney Wsaty of Grand Rap.
ids. g. the effect that the police of Iowa
we've cunning for his client.
Mr.. Cary gszed at the Governor,
slowly dragging pen Nth unspeakabis
smssemeut. But out Of ms bewilder
meut there came unto him his voice
and with q Juniu&iike sarcasm which
the Governor quite failed 90 appreciate
asked. "woulda't ron like 20 have me-
pay for that dispatehF'
asa Iefs the August Prssssee.
"Now.' said Chief Cary 10 the re
porter for the fnter Ocean. "dont voc
think Is rss perfectly lovely EXHIBIT
hon Of simplicity. u not OF sctnal knav
cry. ON the part az ths fossiIzed old
Governor, Ia warn the attorney Of I
man in nd lnx irons NE law that ID
client was beins looked for in the facs
OF the perfsctly straight aud Iess
rsauislti0n papers ssned for the s~ind
LIZ hv tha gf,vrrunP al Another STATE