Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-02-25
STRONG PRESSURE
ON SHERCnFF[
n,nissaries of Tom Dennison AL
legged to BE Working With
Diamond ROhber
~ usIplous INFLUENCE AT WORK
Friends of Dennison in Disguise Making
Life Pleasant For shercIiffe While
They Are BRUSHING Him In Den
nison's lnterests-state Fair At
fractions.
Special to Times Republican.

Specjal to imes-Repub!can.
Des Moines. Feb. 25lf Tom Dennl-
SON the Omaha gambler is convicted
OF completely in the Pollock diamond
robbery of ten years ago, it WIN De
largely on the testimony of Frank Sher-
cliffe who served his sentence lof 'he
robbery and is now out on parole IN
Des Noines. Tom Dennison is smart
enough to know this and every ell
fort that can be brought to bear ON
! Shercliffe to cause him to weaken ana
not testify is being eXerted. The forces
rb;lt tend TO sin are more active IMAM
| those that tend to righteousness Ihat
| isn't exactly scripture but rs as lrull-
| f,;l and it sums up the whole SITUATION
| in the Shercliffe- Dennison matter AT
this time. and it tells the whole story
| Every gambler in the country thal IS
available is being used by Dennlsoh
and his friends. The work on Sheiel'ie
! is in that SLY. quiet way that the devil
has n reputation of using. Dennlson
lis we'll acquainted with the gamblers
of this city and the gamblers here and
those in Omaha work together as they
are supposed to everywhere
| An Omaha or Des Moines gambler
| calls and sees Shercliffe at the cigar
| store cater -cornsred across from lhe
Sayery hotel. They have a talk and go
out and drink and take lunch together.
The caller is a dead enemy to Denni-
son. He wants to see Dennlson huns
| and all that sort of thing. at hrst. AS
the talk and lunch go on together anu
nears it's close the caller cools ara mn
ally declares that though Dennlsoh
ought to be hung, yet he IS a galnplef'
! end one Of the boys, and when IL comes
,sa bcf.la mp before the courts OF the
state for IL 100000 diamond rcpbefy'
he ought to have fair shake, other
callers and chums of Shercliffe, VINO
are friends in disguise of Dennisoh,
will go further and in their arguments
roach the conclusion that one gambler
never ought to testify in the courts
AGAINST another, but ought to settle
their differences by themselves, like
men,"
Oh
ed on Shercliffe till the state, to tell
the truth, is worried. The moral forces
have sort of let Shercliffe drift and
shift for himself Naturally ne mas
dropped back among his old associates
and these associates do not feel To-
ward Dennison as does .Shercllffe. What
more natural than that sherclllie
should change his mind. 1t is pelleVed
that some of the friends of Dennlson
have held out bis sums as an induce
ment for the change of his nd. IT, =.
Eay of the Clinton Advei User, who
had q great deal to do with the conVlc-
tion of the diamond robbers, has been
in the CITY for couple of days and
E,n,er I. Thomas the Omaha lawyer
whose house came near being blown up
hv dynamite. because of his prosecution
of the gamblers out there, is expected
in the city on his way home from the
east. 1t is believed that their visits
wNl have something to do with an e1rort
to throw influence about Sherclliie
that will keep him proof agalnss the
Influences of the Dennison crowd.
There are some things that work
naturally in favor of the moral 1ofces'
Shercliffe knows that his safety de-
pends on his staying inside OF the
state of Iowa. He knows furthermore
that he can't put much commence IN
Dennison or his crowd and that a
promise from that source is not OIL
much value. The great effort Oh Den
nison and his friends at this time is
to get the case at Logan postponed
till a later term of court for the rea-
SON that every minute of delay gives
kthat much longer time to work on
Shercliffe.
A meeting of the attractions COM
mittee of the state fair with Secretary
John Simpson and Secretary Randall
and President Cosgrove of the Mime
sofa fair, will be held at the secre-
tary's office in the state house Thurs
day. At that time model of the night
attraction which is under considera-
ton for this years fair will be dis
played and discussed. Minnesota ex-
poets to take the same action that
Iowa takes in the matter. The attrac-
tion is the fall of Port Arthur and is
said to be something fine. Secretary
Simpson saw it in Chicago from which
trip he returned yesterday. There is
not much cheap vaudeville in the mat
ter. 1t is all fall of Port Arthur The
various hills and the Tigers Tail and
other localities about the port are
shown i'm a realistic manner and with
as absolute accuracy as it is possible
to give. Este mountain. 203 Meter
Hill and all the others are shown in
nd n fjf,D Tho
firing and bombardment is very dra-
matte and there is lots of the. firing
which is the part the people princi-
pally like. The matter will be dis
cussed quite thoroughly next Thurs
day at the meeting here.
Edwin Perry. secretary of tie Uni
I ted Mine Workers of Iowa, was in the
city yesterday and states that he can