The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-06-19
HELD TO THE GRAND JURY
mitchell s. MEYBERG AND SAMUEL
CLICK UNDER BOND.
The Defense Does Not Introduce Tes-
timony in the Police Court Hear
fng-The Witnesses.

Mitchell 8. Meyberg. Samuel Click and
James Finley were bound over to the grand
jury by Judge Whallon of the Police Court,
yesterday afternoon, IN five minutes after
the prosecution rested its case. Mr.. Span,
attorney for the defense, stated that the
defense would introduce no evidence in the
Police Court and would make no
and accepted the ruling of the court with
no obejections.
The evidence offered by the prosecution
yesterday afternoon was of such a nature
that the court very quickly made it's de-
cision as to the disposition of the case as
far as the Police Court was concerned.
Meyberg and Click are the defendant
brokers and are charged with uttering
forged and fraudulent instruments and
altering and illegally selling railroad tick
cts and passes, while Finley, who was bag
gageman in the employ Of the Big -Four
Railroad. is charged with conspiring with
the brokers and acting as their tool in Sc
curing used tickets from the railroads after
they had passed from the hands of the con-
ductor into his possession for the purpose
of forwarding them to the ticket account
ant.
sHADoWED FINLEY.
A. G. Grant, a Pinkerton detective, testi-
fed that he had Swallowed Finley and had
frequently seen him in the act of turn
ing quantities of tickets over to MIR. Mey-
berg during the month of May.
Mr.. Falvey, of the Pinkerton agency, tes-
titled that he went to the Messing agency
and sold to Click. Messing's chief clerk, a
pass over the Chicago division of the Big
-Four Railroad from indianapolis to Spades,
Ind, for which he received 20 cents. He
identified the pass on the stand, and Illus
trated numerous changes which he claimed
had been made in the ticket while in the
possession of the Messing agency. Shortly
after MIR. Falvey sold the pass to Click
titled that he went to Click and asked for
passage to Cincinnati, o. Click. he said,
told him to return in the afternoon, stat
ing hat he would be abe TO fix him with
a ticket at that time. He went back in the
afternoon and bought the pass that Mr..
Falvey had, a day or so before, sold TO
Click, but it had been altered and changed
SO that he was able to use 1t for passage
to Cincinnati. Click, he said, gave him a
stamped and addressed envelope, request
he had ridden to Cincinnati on 1t, but in
stead of using the ticket for passage he
turned it over to the detectives.
From the evidence of John L. Shelley 1T
developed that he was employed by the
Pinkerton detective agency and bought a
ticket from Click for passage from Indian
apolis to Middletown, o., over the Cincin.
natl division Of the Big Four road. and 1t
was proved by the testimony OF Charles
Stilz, ticket agent at the Union Station,
that the ticket in question had been sold on
ton had been changed and the conductors
punch marks had been plugged up, with
the evident design of using the ticket Tor
passage a second time.
SOLD CLICK TICKETS.
William p. Carpenter, of this city, testi-
fed that he had entered into the employ of
Mr.. Roach, superintendent of the Pinkerton
detective agency, and had sold to Click two
tickets given him by Mr.. Roach for passage
from Indianapolis to Lena. Ind, and had
marked them at the time of the sale so
that he would be able to recognize them
again, even though they were altered. He
took a notebook description OF the tickets
and committed to memory the numbers. He
| positively identified both OF the tickets and
stated that one of them had been altered
i'm that the destination had been changed
from Lena, Ind. to Cleveland, o., and the
date of expiration had been changed from
May IL to May 80. Mr.; f. M; Brine; ticket
| accountant of the Big Four Railroad. testi-
fed as to the time the tickets were used
over the railroad and received into MS
hands,, and with his testimony the evidence
for the prosecution was announced by Mr..
Duncan to be completed. He briefly re-
viewed the evidence submitted to the court
during the course of the trial and rested
his case. Mr.. Span announced at that time
that there would be no argument or evil
dence offered for the defense, and Judge
Whallon promptly bound the defendants
| over to the grand jury under bonds OF $i'oO
each.
1t is said that from additional facts
brought out by the trial several more ar
| rests may be expected in the course of a
day or so.
Mr.. Spaan said after the trial yesterday
that the defense would prove when the
| proper time came the innocence of the
| brokers. He said that he had expected the
| men to be bound over to the grand jury,
and for that reason did not introduce any
| ~ the witnesses for the defense at the pre-
liminary hearing in the Police Court.