Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-09-27
UNITED STATES. MARsHALs ARE
BRINGING swINDLERs INTO
COUNCIL RLuFFs.S
TWO IOWA MEN AMONG
THOSE RECENTLY INDICTED
Pennington and Montrose Represented
On the Alleged swndIe Syndicate
Important Arrests Expected to Fol-
Iow-victims and Alleged Grafters
Renew Acquaintance.
Special to Times-Republican.

Council Bluffs, Sept. % - United
States marshals in various parts of the
country have begun making arrests Of
the eighty-f four alleged steerers, fake
horse race men, fake wrestlers and
others charged with having been asso-
GATED with j. c. Maybray in the bus
mess of separating bankers and others
from their money in backing "sure
thing" wagers.
The first of these to arrive in Coun-
Gil Bluffs in charge of two federal off,
GERS We're Thomas S. Robinson of
Pennington, Iowa, and Ed Leach of
Montrose, Iowa, who We're brought here
on bench warrants Issued from the fed
eral court. Both were arrested by
Deputy UnitedN States Marshal A. ID.
Dunlap of Keokuk, Iowa, who turned
the men over to United States Mar
shall Clark on arriving in Council
Bluffs. The attorney who appears for
j. c. Maybray and his alleged pals,
at once took steps toward furnishing
the required bond of $4,000 each. Rob
that the bond exacted of the accused
men was $1,000, had made partial a..
rangements to offer bail before he dis
covered that the court had fixed the
amount of the bond of all not under
arrest in this city, at $4,000, and he
was much chagrined.
Robinson is accused of having acted
as "steerer" in the swindle of E. G.
Alspagh. clothier of Terre Haute,
Ind, who is alleged to have lost 5000
to the Maybroy outfit in fake wrest-
ling match pulled off in this city on
Aug. 4, 1908. Robinson and Alspaugh
met at the Grand Hotel here. where
Alspaugh has been staying while in at
tendance upon the session of the Fed
eral grand jury. They greeted each
other with evidence of caution on bolh
sides.
ut has been some time since 1 last
saw you," said Robinson
YES" said Alspagh, How are you
getting along?"
20. pretty WE'LL" was the response.
What are you doing here?" asked
Alspaugh with a tone of irony
Just dropped in on little matter
Of business" was Robinson's sarcastic
reply.
Leach, the other indicted man
brought in with Robinson, is accused
Of having officiated in the swindle of
a farmer named Newberry residing
near Argyle, Iowa. The deal is alleged
to have been pulled of at Wilkesbarre.
Pa, and Newberry says that he lost
$4,000 in the little transaction.
Bench warrants have been issued for
all the other defendants, many of
whom have already been located and
some of whom are now under arrest.
Even before the indictment was re-
turned in federal court the wires were
burdened with orders to United States
marshals and postoffice inspectors
turnout the country to arres. or hold
under surveillance the men wanted,
and later Instructions were sent toNar-
rest the men and bring them here at
once. In a few instances, it is said,
the men wanted are in Jail.
James Tierney of Streater, ILL.,, who
charges that he was robbed of $4,000
in a fake deal at New Orleans in Sep
tember, 1908, who was a witness be-
fore the federal grand jury here and
who is also to appear before a like sit
ting in Omaha this week, is fondly an
ticipating the arrival here tonight of
the man who he claims put him Up
against the game. Warrants for the
fellows arrest are out. The accused
is also from Streator. and before the
deal at New Orleans he and Tierney
We're on friendly, If not intimate terms.
Among the early arrests that are
predicted by one of the marshals are
the men who are charged with having
engineered the deals in which j. w.
springborn, of Cleveland, o.; A. A
Van Cleave and DR.. c. C. Vanderbeck
Of st. Louis, were swindled out of s10,-
900, $4,000 and $4,000 respectively. A
representative of C. Nelson Pratt OF
Toledo. o. is here looking after the
interests Of Pratt, who says that he
lost $4,000 to the gang. 1t is surmised
that the accused men in this case are
on the road en- route to Council Bluffs