Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-11-25
BLUFFS DISAPPOINTED.
PEOPLE cHAGRlNED BECAUSE OF
PosTPoNEMENT OF MA.
BRAY's TRIAL.
ATTORNEY GENERAL sYERs
GIVES MUCH ENCOURAGEMENT
Prosecutors Promise to Stay by the
County Attorney in Effort to Purge
City Of Undesirables Gratifies- BY
ers Scores Those Who Have Allotted
Gang of swindiers.

Special to Times Republican.
Council Bluffs, Nov. -25.-The order
of Judge Smith Mcpherson continuing
the case in United States federal court
against ]. c. Mabray, alleged arch
conspirator in the so-called swindle
syndicate, has aroused feeling of dis
in Council Bluffs.
Mabray's case was set for trial Dec.
1 and the satisfactory outcome of the
case of the state against Dobbins gave
the public much to hope for in the
way of cleansing of the community
of undesirable citizens and it was free
~ said, Immediately following the con-
viction of Dobbins, "Now he is out
of the way, the others who may be
found guilty, can be speedily brought
to trial and the entire bunch of swind-
lers put away for safe keeping" No
sooner, however, had the conviction Of
Dobbins become public than word was
swiftly carried forth that Mabray had
been given new lease of freedom.
There is no question but that the
friends of AIabray feared the effect of
a conviction of Dobbins ON public sem
timent and aside from a feeling of
friendship for eDobbins, hoped ror an
acquittal. This, is a measure, accounts
for the strenuous efforts put forth on
behalf of Dobbins. 1t is yet a mystery
where Dobbins secured the powerful
aid which enabled him to give a $4,000
bond and secure his release from Jail
after he had been there several months,
not to speak of the services of the
leading attorneys who defended him.
Unconfirmed rumors are that Mrs.
Dobbins Went to Missouri and secured
the needed help, but Dobbins' sureties,
men of prominence in Council Bluffs,
it is not believed, appeared as sureties
for Dobbins out of mere friendship for
Dobbins and che natural inference Of
the public is that they We're guar
anteed against possible loss.
Encouraged by 6yers.
The disappointment of the public
over the postponement of the Mabray
case and all others of the same ma
ture, to a date three months in the flu
ture, is heightened from the assurance
of Attorney General Byers made in
court that he would he on hand thru
out to assist in the work of Kidding the
community of suspected men and so
far as possible remove from the city's
name a stigma that has attached to it
since the operations of the gang be-
came a public matter and the operators
fled from the city and hid in distant
parts =
While there is no apparent desire OF
the part of any of the people of Coun.
ell Bluffs to see these men railroade6
thru the courts, an early settlement o
the suits and the entire matter rele-
gated to the past, is most desired. Al
one time some Impotence was ex-
pressed at the apparent lack of interes
it became known that no steps were
being overlooked or missed in prepar.
ing a case against the accused swind.
lers and that federal officials were la.
boring increasingly in the matter The
public was satisfied to await re
suits.
Byers Scores Crooked Officials.
Attorney General Byers, in his ad
dress to the jury in the Dobbins case
turned and addressed himself to TIL,
people in the crowded court room, as
surfing them of his services. Mr.. BY.
ers. in this connection, said:
This law suit. this transaction
these men who have been here in thi
city months and months, bringing dis
grace to this city-these transaction
have been exploited in every newspape
in the state. 1t has not only been sal,
in the newspapers but it appears ii
the evidence of witnesses in this case
that these men were doing this unde
the protection of public officials an,
could not be prosecuted: and so
i Cunning to County Attorney John ]
Hess) Il have come here to protec
this splendid young man, whom, dur
ing this trial, I have come to know an,
! love. / wanted to help hold up TIL
hands Of that young prosecutor so that
no matter what the jury might do.
could say to my young friend, I wa
with You from the start to the finisl
and we did everything we could t
kbring out the truth
| Il pledge you and you, gentlemen,
| burning to the audience) that l pro
| pose to follow that SANDER to the END
and put my hand on every public of
! fetal that is guilty of such conduct
until 1 car separate every official VIII
can thus disgrace his office from tllos
| who are efficient and faithful.
Let the message go out with tn
verdict of this jury that stealing il
Council Bluffs is 4 crime. and when tn
evidence is as clear and convincing a
it is in this case, conviction is Ger
tain, and no longer shall this beautiful