Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-07
FAKE FOOT RACERS IN HAND
Lesn Lozi,r and Ed Moore Brought Back to
Answer Criminal Charge,
SHERIFFs RACE WITH COLORADO JUSTICE
Cousins Gets His Men on Train Just
Ahead of Habeas Corpus Papers
and Manages TO Elude
Further Pursuit.

After making a hard fight to prevent
their extradition, Leon Lozier and Ed
Moore, under indictment on a charge OF
conspiring to defraud Charles Gregory and
william Barker of this city out Of 5000
on an alleged fake foot race in Webb City,
arrived in Council Bluffs yesterday from
Denver, Colo, in the custody OF Sheriff
Cousins, and we're at once placed in the
county jail. Later in the day Moore Sc
cured his release on a $4,000 bond fur
nished by his sister. Miss Anna Moore,
Daniel Carrigg and Attorney A. W. Ask
with.
Lozier and Moore resorted to every
means possible to avoid extradition and
Sheriff Cousins only succeeded In getting
them away from Denver a few minutes
ahead OF officers armed with habeas cor
pus papers. The train had barely cleared
the platform before the officers reached
the depot with the papers to serve on
Sheriff Cousins. Lozer and Moore, imme-
diately on their arrest in Denver at the
instigation OF the authorities here. Sc
cured the services Of attorneys, one of
whom was the county attorney OF Arapa-
hoe county, and when Sheriff Cousins
reached there with the requisition papers
for the two men he found il necessary to
also employ counsel. The arrival OF Mr..
Barker in Denver with a bench warrant in
answer to a telegram from Sheriff Cousins
helped matters, and at the hearing before
Governor 0rman Wednesday afternoon
the requisition was granted and Sheriff
Cousins given a warrant for the two pris-
oners.
AS soon as he secured the warrant
Sheriff Cousins lost no time in getting his
Nd d C.
office OF the Denver sheriff and handed
him the warrant. Just as the sheriff was
turning over the two prisoners to Cousins
telephone message from their attorney
to the Denver sheriff asked him to delay
surrendering the men. as habeas corpus
proceedings had been begun. The Denver
sheriff replied that the message had come
too late, as the men were then in the GUS
tody of the Iowa sheriff. Realizing that
no time was to be lost II he expected to
get out OF Denver with his men, Sheriff
Cousins secured a carriage, hustled Lo-
zier and Moore into 1t and made a dash
for the depot. which he reached Just three
minutes ahead OF the train starting. Sheriff
Cousins said yesterday that the three min
utes while waiting for the train to start
seemed to him like three hours. as he ex-
pected every second to see the officers with
the habeas corpus papers show up. and he
did not breathe easily until after the train
had crossed the Nebraska line.
At the time the Indictment was returned
by the grand jury Judge Macy fixed the
bonds OF LoEier and Moore at $4,000. Yes
terday afternoon County Attorney Killpack
hled motion to have this amount in
creased, alleging that IL not the defend
ants would not be present when the case
would be called and the ends Of justice
would be defeated thereby. As Judge
Green had gone to Red Oak early in the
afternoon the motion could not be submit
ted yesterday. and during the afternoon
Moore succeeded in furnishing the 81 ,OOO
bond and was released from the county
jail