Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-02-27
ACQUISITION ASKED
 BY IOWA AUTE( RITES
Detective From Council Bluffs, Iowa. Arri in Lit le Rock After J c. Mabray-State Has No Pot CT to Turn Prisoner Over to Iowa Oficer-Another At
 tachment For Money-T. w. Ballew Recognizes the Race Horse Which Should Have Won

Little Rock, Feb 26. Closer and closer the officers 1eieyr they arc drawing the web about j. C. Mabray, the alleged leader of the alleged swindlcrs under arrest here, but so far little evidence has been secured against the others. Local officers, however, expect to be able before Tuesday morning to have charges against them which will hold in ease the government fails to make cut q case.
 ] Sheriif Roberts and Deputy Snerifia Hawkins and Heichart yesterday put l in some good work on the local end and are following it up toda%. They legged to belong the gang was kept, , in an isolated barn near the pest house They then went all over that section of the country and found Wit nesses who saw the horses taken from the barn one afternoon about ten days ago, when there was q slight snow falling. The hors' kept on go- ] ing cast beyond the cemetery and shortly afterwards two vehicles were seen to drive in the same direction, and in these surrevs tho officers think, rode Mahray and his alleged victims.
 The officers have found where Ma bray and his associates are said to lhavc hired ,hc veh clrs February Il and l3, and as Kile the Decatur 4ll.) 'man, who is supposed to have been worked for .S1G00o here. drew the money from the bank of that day, it ] is supposed the victim went direct to the scene of the race with the men. Fight For Acquisition.
 The fight for requisltion for Ma bray began this afternoon at o'clock and the attorneys who represent him will make strenuous objection 10 the rcuuisition from the governor of Iowa being honored. Detective A. w. GroneWcg, of Council Bluffs, who car riss the warrant for the arrest Of Mabray, alias Mayberry, alias Cor don. upon an indictment by the courts of Council Bluffs, arrived last night. He stayed under cover until this morning and presented his rcquisl- it;ou 4o coy nOpophpy
 As the state has no power to turn Mabray over to the Council Bluff of- ficials there is no haste in the mat ter so 1t was set for hearing this afternoon. By presenting the requisi- tion' now, Groneweg gets first call, or whenever the government Is through with him. Groneweg carries no pa ipcrs for any of the others, and is not |acquanted with any of the men. The indictment which caused the Council Bluffs officer to come to Little RocA was in the swindling of T. W. Bal lew, of Princeton, Mo-, out of $3o,0ot ion a horse race last September al !COOnClI bluuS.
 Ballew Identifies Mabray.
 T. w. Ballew, the lumberman, mer' Ichant and former banker of Prince ton, Mo-, who was relieved of $30,0ot by the gang, positively identines Ma bray as Gordon, q supposed million aire, who took part in feecing him He returned this morning, with for mer Sheriff Minter, of Princeton, from Hot Springs, where he had been aftel members of the gang. MT. BalleW says that George Ryan, under arres at Hot Springs. had nothing to de with his case. They went to Ho Springs hoping to find in man b! the name of Bennett, bartender 1T Ithe Ryan saloon, one of the men whf took part in the Ballew robbery, ou they failed. The man Bennett, the! allege. has the same name as the on' lthev are after, which caused his ar rest, but not being the right part! was released.
 To Regain Lost Money.
 To be sure that none of the prop Ierty seized by the federal authoritie under attachment by J. E. Cavanaugl gets away, T. ". Ballew yesterday al Iternoon secured an attachment in tn lcircuit court, second division. whicl
 Twas served on all the parties wh Icould be located last night It exactly a duplicate of the attaci