The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-07-17
Wen Known Pennington Man !,
Charged With Being steerer
and Also One Of the Fake
Wrestlers
HE IS NOW IN JAIL
Taken to Sioux City and in Default OF
$4,000 Bail Was Placed In
Cell in the City
Prison.

Tom Robinson. the we'll known Far
mingtnn man, who was arrested MS
week and taken to Council Bluffs on
a charge OF being member OF the
Maybray gang, is in jail there accord
ing to the Omaha Bee which tells his
case as follows.
Through the efforts of Postoffice IN
spector Swenson another alleged mem
Der Of the notorious j. G. Maybray
gang Of big store swindlers was lodg-
ed behind the bars of the county jail
In Council Bluffs yesterday 7. 3. Rob-
dnson. who was taken into custody at
Pennington, Ia, and brought to this
city yesterday, is charged with con-
spiracy in the case of E. G. Allspaugh,
OF Terre Haute, Ind, who was fleeced
out of $1,000 on August 5 of last year
in Council Bluffs on fake wrestling
match.
/ An information against Robinson
/ was filed by Mr.. Swenson in the Of
| flee Of Justice Gardiner on Saturday OF
Hast week. Not wishing to trust the
/ arrest Of the man to the local author
titles at Pennington. Inspector Sven
son went there with Captain L. b
Cousins. deputy sheriff and district
court bailiff of this city, and succeed
ed IN locating and arresting Robinson
/ Tuesday Robinson's bail pending
i preliminary hearing was fixed by Just
/ Ice Gardiner at $4,000, in default OF
which he was committed to the coun-
ty jail.
Robinson was placed in the cell re-
4 Gently vacated by John r. DoDpins.
another alleged member of the gang,
who secured his release from the coun-
ty iail where he had been since Feb
ruary Is, by furnishing bonds In the
aggregate sum OF $4,000 Monday. Rob
inson declined to be interviewed BY
newspapermen.
Robinson, it is alleged, acted the
dual role of steerer" and one of the
fake wrestlers in Allspaugh's case. In
the information filed in Justice Gardl
& ner's court by Postoffice Inspector
Swenson. Robinson is charged witt
conspiring with W. H. Barton and ]
C. Maybray to defraud and deprive p
G. Allspaugh of $1,000 Barton, it wa.
stated yesterday by County Attorne.
Hess, was formerly proprietor of
restaurant in Terre Haute, and wa
personally acquainted with Allspaugh
Since the arrest of Maybray and othe
members of the 'swindling syndicate,
Barton is said to have left Terre Haut
and has so far eluded the efforts c
Mr. Swenson to locate him.
1t will be remembered that anon
the books and papers found by the fec
eral officers in Maybray's trunk a
the time of his arrest in Little Rocl
Ark, was small red leather memo
andum book, containing partial Lis
of Mikes and an itemized account {
Maybray's share of the plumber. A
entry in this little book, which is no
with the other papers and memorand
found in the trunk in the possession {
the United States authorities, reads &
follows: August 5, E. g. Allspaug
Terre Haute. Ind, $1,000"
No indictment has as yet been r
turned against Robinson, his identit
as an alleged "steerer' only havir
recently became known to Mr.. Swe
son. No time for the preliminary hea
ing has been set as Robinson desir,
to first get in communication with h
attorney. The district court graz
jury will convene August 81.
Robinson's Hearing.
A dispatch from Council Bluff
tells of the preliminary hearing
Robinson:
e. J.. McCoid of Keokuk ,attorn
for T. s. Robinson, alleged Maybr;
syndicate steerer and fake wrestle
created some excitement in the cou
of Justice Gardner in his atttcks up
Postal Inspector J. c. Swenson, WI
has been jnstlrAhental in working
evidence against the members of t
Maybray gang of alleged swindlel
The hearing, which lasted most of t
day, was fast and furious.
This would be sleuth: the posi-
inspector who wants to make gre
showing to his superiors, and sa,