St. Paul daily globe., 1892-12-29
NEBRASKA SCANDAL.
One More Arrest Made, Making
Five Now in Custody or
Under Bail.
Other Warrants Out, but the Men
Wanted Are SojOurning in
Canada.

LINCOLN. Neb., Dec. 2S.-The arrest
of German D. Belts under an indict-
memt returned by the grand jury,
which completed its investigations Sat
urday, brings the total number of par
ties arrested up to five. 1t is certain that
at least two more warrants are out, but
it is rumOred that they will not be
served for some time. for the reason that
the implicated have gone to the donin
ion north of the United States on a
pleasure trip that is likely to be pro-
longed indefinitely. Belts manipulated
the coal contracts in order that the state
could be made to pay for coal that was
never delivered.
1.-The scheme was very simple one,"
said the attorney, but one hard to de-
tect The dealer would send number
of ears of coal out TO the asylum. We
will say that three cars would be num-
bered 444, 800 and Cos. No. 444 and 666
would be unloaded at the asylum switch,
but No. 555 would be hauled back 10 the
Dealers yards and sold to city consum-
erS. In this way the same car of coal
would be sold to the state and also to
private parties. That was sne of the
methods said to have originated in the
mind of Mr.. Belts, who was one of the
most successful dealers in the city at
the time he held the state contracts"
w. H. Dorgan is charged with en-
bezzlement as bailee of $6.6S4. On
another account he is charged with
simple embezzlement of the same
amount. John L. Dorgan is charged
with having obtained money on false
pretenses on overcbarglng the state on
fuel charges. There are three separate
&H.,a ~ hai,
w. ID. Sewell was not in
indictments are against him. one for
obtaining $39.1O when he furnished no
supplies and the other two charging
him with overcharglng the state to the
amount of S126.70. j. L. StObbS is
charged with obtaining the sum Of
S2,8l1.77 Oh false pretenses. On this
indictment j. L. Dorgan is made an ac
cessory. Stobbs is also charged in
two additional indictments with hav-
ing received S726 by overcharging.
Frank Hubbard. the eX-farm boss, is
honored with nineteen indictments as
principal, and j. ID. Laur as an acceS
sorry He if also charged with being an
accessory with Laur on four more in
dictments. Ali refer to the contracts
for supplying the asylum with beef cat
tie. mere are tOuE more iHQiClDGlltS
against Gorham Belts, and he is accused
OF getting away with $l,773 by over
charging.
1t is certain that the trial of the men
under Indictment will be hotly contest
ed. One of the attorneys engaged by
one of the indicted parties already
boasts that the indictments will be de-
clared void for the reason that they
were made by grand jury called while
the district court was in SESSION.
The attorney has, however, been
roundly criticised by a number
of friends of the accused, who
take the ground that the resort to
legal quibbling will not only fail TO es-
tablsh the innocence of the men under
arrest, but turn public sentiment, which
is at present unbiased, against them.
Several of the accused parties are evil
IDENTIFY sincere in saying that they court
the fullest investigation to the charges.
! One said to the Associated Prees rep
| resentative: iLs /
"If have been fool enough to do any
thing that will send me to the peniten
tiary, [ certainly ought to go there. -
Up to late hour this afternoon Cor
ham Belts had been unable to secure
| bail and was still in the custody of the
deputy sheriff.