The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1905-02-28
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FARMER STEGALI
HITS THE TOWN
FILLING AMONG THIEVES HE IS VICTIM
lied or ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS.
MOST THRILLING STORY
Victim Claims He was Doped and
Held Prisoner by the Fieecers
Who Forced Him to Sign
Checks for Various
Amounts.

Several men and one or two WON
en- have been placed under arrest at
Waco by the sheriffs department
and the eonstabulary on charges OF
swindIing, the cases being rather I'M
usual, in that the alleged victim
was kept under the influeR~s Of
whiskey, so IL is claimed, for about
two weeks, while various sums were
secured from him by getting him TO
sign his name TO checks, the total
running up to nearly $1,000. The
men arrested thus far are r. A
Pierce. Ed Fuller, Stuart McChesney,
Jim Reeves and Yves Handley Mat
tie Brown was also arrested on the
same charge ana placed under bond
on waiver The bonds approxim-
ated s goo in each case The man
who alleged that he lost his good
money is named Stegall, and he for
merly lived in Waco, but about five
year ago he went TO Santa Anna,
and Ii is said he is now worth CON
siderable money Be that as it may,
he is not as rich as he was a few
weeks ago when he visited WACO to
see a time
stegall. who is a widowe4. about
so years old, states that the men who
got his money worked a systematic
plan, keeping him drugged about
ten days and one of them staying
with him constantly to- keep him
from getting out from uSder the in
fluence OF whiskey andC away from
the officers He allegls that they
would take him to VIM rooms, get
him too drunk to know what he was
doing, and then to tell him that he
had ordered whisky and other
things and must pay Tor same, thus
practically forcing him 70 sign
checks for sums which were much
larger than he intended and much
In excess of what he owed In this
way, he says he was fleeeed OF hun
dreds of dollars, and he claims to
know most of the persons who were
engaged in the matter, saying there
We're several women. Officers have
been working on the case for several
days, but kept the public in the dark
until they could land on the ones
whom they believed TO be implicated
Those arrested ali protest that they
did not take any money from Stegau
except what was due them.
To officers stegall gave an account
of the matter which was graphic and
spicy TO a degree. He declares that
he had been practically a prisoner
tor days. as one on more of the parts
had kept right with ham and
had made him believe that be
tStegaIr had burt man Ny
shocking him len the head and ttat
he had been arrested He SAWS iut-
thermore that threats. urra .us and
force were used 10 keep hIm va SUBJ
omission when he showed any dispo-
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