Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-06-16
NAS COLBY 4 RINGER!
Damage Suit in the South De-
velops Sensation in Iowa
Horse Circles.
Hank Colby Alleged to Have
Substituted Eva" for Hat
tic" in Races.
Latter's Record Made Her In.
eligible for Races Which
She Won.
snecial to Times-Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Mason City, June 16.-Horsemen al
over the country will be much inter
ested in the case of w. H. II. Colby
better known as Hank Colby, of Fort
| Dodge against the Queen u Cresceh'
railroad which is set for trial at Jack
son. Miss, June 80. Those who foilo"
racing events will remember that II
the fall of 1900 a rear end collision
occurred in the Jackson yards OF the
Q. & c., and a number OF race horses
We're manned or killed and one Boards
| lev" a driver was killed and the roao
paid his heirs $4,000. Early IN inc
/ fall Colby started mare when ne
called Hattie" by 1nveterate at the
races at Atlanta, Ga, where she was
distanced AT birmingham, La, a week
later he started her and she took 1irs'
money. A week later he entered hef
at yicksburg. Miss, and she captured
second money and on the way to jack
son. Miss, for the races there tralI
/ load of trotting horses and the queen
| & Crescent suffered from rear emo
collision and Hattie" was killed. Inc
road offered to settle with Colby for
81 200 and from the evidence IN the
Ipossesson of the special agent OF thar
road Colby evidently will wish he had
accepted the tender. He brought suit
shortly after the accident for $4,000
damages and the Jackson jury dis
agreed on the amount TO be granted
and the case comes up for second trlai
June 80 NJ. NJ. Robinson the special
agent of the Q. & c. road was sent
to TT. Dodge to secure affidavits con
corning the value of the horse and yes
terday he showed af1idavits which will
create sensation in racing circles.
He found more than he anticipated
and it is likely the case will be dropped
at once. He exhibited what purported
to be affidavits to show that Colby was
guilty of ringing" and that the mare
Hattie" was not in the races at all
but that her half sister Eva with
a record of So y was the mare which
had been entered under the name OF
Hattie" a green mare without a record
and won at will in the 80 and 33 classe3
in which Colby had entered her. One
OF the affidavits was by a man named
Daugherty who in his deposition de-
clared that he had purchased Hattie
prior to the races in the south and
that she was at that time on his farm
near TT. Dodge and that he still owns
her on his farm in Oklahoma where
he now lives. Daugherty says in this
affidavit that he asked for n bill of
sale for Hattie" at the time but that
Colby said he had entered her for
races in the south and that he would
not want to give this before the races
as he would want to enter q substitute
under that name. Robinson also had
affidavits purporting to show that Eva
his other mare with an established
record had been shipped from Colo
to the south in the summer to go If
training and that instead of Hattie
the mare Eva was the race horse which
was really killed. If Robinson can
prove by these witnesses whom he will
have in court at the next trial that
these assertions are true Colby will
have to stand trial for the crime OF
perjury and also for thee misdemeanoI
of ringing for the American Trotting
Association will take up this matte
and prosecute it vigorously.