Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-09-24
VICTIMS OF TINE MA5RAY GANG
CONSIDERED ON PAR WITH
MEN WHO ROBBED.
FEDERAL GRAND JURY MAKES
BUSINESS FOR TEN YEARS
United States Marshal Will Begin to
Round Up Those At Large Of the
Eishty-fo lndieted-council Bluffs
Jail Will Not Hold All Of Thsm-one
Million in Earnings.

Council Bluffs, Sept. 24.-Despite the
element of tragedy which is plainly
visible in the court procedure in this
city, resulting in the indictment of j.
c. Mabray and eighty-four others,
charged with conspiracy to defraud, by
federal grand jury, the sympathy
which the public is not slow in with
holding for a victim of confidence
game, is not forthcoming in this in
stance, for it Is recognized that the vic
Tins in the s1.00o,0Oo system of
swindles became SO thru mans AVA
riciousness. These men who are now
lending their support to the United
States government in the prosecution
OF Mabray and his alleged co-conspl-
rators. were induced to enter into The
various schemes employed by the syn
dictate by the promise of reward
Threatened to Commit Suicide.
One Mabray victim whose evidence,
| 1t is conceded by the government Of
| fcials, would be valuable, has not been
included in the list of those summoned
to appear here or before the federal
grand jury in Omaha next week. This
nan threatened to commit suicide If he
were compelled to appear and tell his
story of the swindle perpetrated upon
him. His name is withheld by the Of
!icials. but he is said to be wealthy and
prominent 1t Is said that he was
swindled out Of sum much larger
than any other Of the victims of the
oSEo TO 10
Cuffs and Omaha as a witness this
nan declared that he would rather
| i've $4,000 more than do so. Exposure,
said, would wreck his business and
reak his home, and he declared that
he were summoned to appear he
ould commit suicide rather than face
Sposure of his Mabray experience
he man seemed so thoroughly in
arrest and his physical condition ne
lrne so serious under the possibility
his exposure that the officials, out
sheer sympathy for him and his
mily, determined not to press the
latter.
Business Enough For Ten Years.
when the federal grand jury in
ouncil Bluffs and Omaha get thru
18th the Mabray cases the UNITED
I
aough work to keep it busy for the
ext ten years. said Col. Marcellus L
Temple, United States prosecuting at
torney of the southern district @
Iowa, who, with s. r. Rush of Omaha
assistant United States attorney gen
eral. who has been especially assigned
tc this matter. are conducting the pros
| ecution. Continuing Attorney Tempt
Ice ~.
far more extensive than is general,
known. Notwithstanding the great pub
licity that has been given to it by tn
press. During the five or more month
in which this department has been Sc
curing evidence against the syndicate
! lit has secured sufficient evidence 4
show that the earnings of the gam
during 1907 and 1908 exceeded $1,000,
600.
Have the Figures to Show It.
eve have the figures which show
this. How much more the gang got i
not known, as Of course there are quit
a number of victims who refused t
say anything about their losses. TIL
department has but little sympathy e.
these victims, as the evidence in il
possession demonstrates that most G
IInem at least went up against the gam
} in the expectation of securing som
easy money OF course this phase 9
the case can not and does not ente
into the prosecution Of the crimtns
cases. 1t Is safe, however. that alm1s
every fraud perpetrated and especial
such as the Mabray gang is accuse
of, is due to mans greed. While t.,
government is doing everything in i,
power to convict the members of th
gang, it is not giving out any of tt
information it has obtained to assis
the victims in their civil suits in tn
or the state courts The government
~ however, intends to show these men ar
:" all others that the United States mai
can not be used to further fraudulel
schemes of any character
Mabray Hears, Indictment Road.
r. Mabray was in court when the gra,
jury reported the blanket indictmen
He was accompanied by his wife ar
: his wife's sister, Mrs. Robertson. tt
victims of the syndicate are scattere
widely, as are the eighty-four men vi
were indicted jointly with Mabray. A
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