The Anaconda standard., 1895-12-14
Gents
Underwear

with this end In view he yesterday mail
"a 10 Secretary f. G. Hopper the follow
sng statement. sworn to before Notary
Eicks:
"sTo the Honorable Board Of Appeals.
American Turf Congress-In response 70
certain statements given to the press OF
81 Louis. rejecting seriously on my hon.
esty while acting as starter at the race
meeting given at Kansas CITY, MO-, our
ing the summer OF 1895. by Glenn Creve-
ling. who was an associate judge during
the same meeting I beg leave TO make
the following statement OF facts; MI.
Creveling has publicly charged me win
having been charged with and convicted
~ demanding money and pool tickets
from horse owners on the threat that IL
the demands of myself and my brother
who was my assistant, were refused
would leave their horses Off badly, or
standing still at the post, and that In
consequences of such pratices on the part
of myself and my brother We were dis
charged by the Kansas City Racing asso-
citation. 1T is true charges of this charac-
ter were preferred against me and my
brother by AL Shores. / knew that as FAR
as I individually was concerned was IN
nocent. and asked my brother II he had
accepted any articles of value or money
from horse owners.
He assured me he had not. but at the
investigation into the matter he was con-
victed, but there was not shred OF evil
dence to implicate me in the matter.
thereupon demanded that my brother,
who had been proven guilty, and Al
Shores, who had made a false charge
against me, be ruled off, The officials.
one of whom was Glenn Creveling. refused
to rule off either party, whereupon j
discharged my brother and have not seen
him since. When / told my brother
would not keep him any longer Creveline
pleaded with me to keep him and the
matter would be hushed up, but / re-
fused. 1t might throw some light upon
this incident to know that Glenn Creve-
ling admitted to me that ne was racing
horses owned by him over the track. In
| the name OF Al Shores.
"a matter which should come undel
your Jurisdiction Is the following propose
| ton made to me by Clem Creveling per
sonally He called me to him one day al
the track and stated that he wished t.
speak to me on a private matter of inter
/ est to me, but that in advance he mus
exact my promise of absolute confidence
I replied that l did not think there wa
any matter between us which was so i'm
portant that I must promise In advanc'
| not to be at liberty to tell 1t elsewhere
| and that / did not care to hear any sucl
He persisted and finally I consented Z
hear him.
His proposition was this: That n
| was interested with a bookmake VIII
had several books on the track and tina
they desired me to enter into a combina
ton with them, the object being to hav
Judge, starter and bookmaker In on
federation by which. he said. we can &c
every dollar which comes onto the track
AS an earnest of his good faith he offer
ed to give me 81 900 to bind the bargain
1 peremptorily refused his propositio
and stated that would expose him an
thereby cause his being ruled off. II
begged and pleaded with me to spare hiI
this disgrace and said that IL he had nc
relied upon my word of honor. given 4
advance. he would have said nothing 4
me. Called upon with such a plea,
finally told him / would say nothin
about II, and kept my word until he az
cused me in the public prints of being
blackmailer. / now demand as my rigi
that the American Turf congress. II
| governing body of the Western tur
make a thorough investigation of the,
charges, and when a finding has bee
reached to punish the guilty person (
persons, whoever he or they may be.
{" 'SignedD II. ID. Brown
! when seen last night by a represent
tive OF the Republic relative to Il
charges Mr.. Creveling laughed at ther
! Why said he. that fellow doesn't kno
, what he is doing. He is "nutty." ! &
him his position as starter at Kansi
, City and have always treated him vel
, | kindly. / have heard this charge of N
, being interested in books up there befor
, | The bookmaker he refers to is MART
, | who had the privilege there. and In ord
4 10 protect myself against such a char
have an affidavit now from Martin, d
nying the truth of the charge. do n
. think the charges will hurt me in q
a least, as / am too we'll known, especial
) in St. Louis. to suffer from anything tn
I, fellow might say. / don't suppose I
: Turf congress will pay any attention
a the matter at all. but IL II does have a
= solutely no fear of the result of the
= vestigation- You can say for me that I
. charges are untrue In eveny particuls
, AS far as the attempts at blackmail a
concerned the trial at Kansas City W