The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1909-05-13
.MABRAYS TAILOR
IDENTIFIES HIM
Il. H. Boyer Contradicts the M'Canu
Story.
IWslTs PRISONER IN HIS CELL
Recalls Acquaintance of Years Ago In
Kansas city--Mabrays Clothes
Were Fitted Upon Mr..
Boyer.

Des Moines, May S.-JFor the first
time since Mrs. Lillian Gates OF st.
Louis declared that J. c. Mabray and
j. j. Mccain are one and the same
man, one of Mabrays old acquaint-
ances yesterday positiveiy identified
the noted prisoner and contradicted
In the strongest terms the theory OF
1.-THE st. Louis woman.
i L. II. Boyer OF Sioux City, promi-
nent business man there and formerly
La resident OF Kansas City, identified
Mr.. Mabray as the man with whom he
had dealt in business way in Kansas
lefty during the month of June. 1908,
when J. J. Mccain, the St.Louis horse
man, disappeared, and is supposed to
nave been murdered by Lord Fred
Ieric Darlington.
Mabray as Host.
fHello, Tom" said Mabray when Mr..
Boyer appeared at the door OF the cell
in the Polk county Jail yesterday.
Hello, J. c." returned Mr. Boyer
and their hands clasped through the
bars before Jailer Scott Wise had
found time to unlock the cumbersome
door to Mabray's steel walled apart
lments."
The cordiality with which Mabray
lushered his visitor into the cell and
loffered him chair bespoke the spirit
of hospitality which is explained by
the proud declaration the alleged conf
idence king so often makes, that he is
a native of the sunny south, where
hospitality is Unborn. It takes true
hospitality to back up welcome into
a steel cell. with its barred windows
land its very air of aloofness from all
1.-THE world. Deputy United States Mar
ishal Hammond and a reporter for the
Register and Leader accompanied the
visitor. and the welcome all received
was OF the whole-souled kind that
makes friends for Mabray, even while
it helps to bear out the stories of in
!, Vulnerable Mikes" who say his ability
as mixer was equalled only by his
Iaptness as a swindler.
Men Are Similar in Size.
Mr.. Boyer was the proprietor of mer-
:. lchant tailoring establishments and for
:, Ave years he was a resident of Kansas
!, City, where he owned an institution
of that class. Although not himself
tailor, Mr.. Boyer has occasion to re-
member Mabray better than most of
the men whose clothes were made in
his establishment, as the two men are
almost exactly the same height and
build.
Mabrays business" with which Mr..
Boyer, of course was not familiar took
lhim, away from Kansas City frequent
ny, and when he wished to order new
suit he telegraphed TO the tailoring es-
Establishment, with directions to try the
clothes ON Mr.. Boyer, Their physical
measurements are the same in practi-
lcally every particular.
4 81 knew Mabray only as one of the
; Ecustomers of my establishment" said
Mr.. Boyer. Il knew nothing of his
private business, of course. and cared
nothing The fact that his clothes fit
ted me makes me remember him with
especial clearness. He was often in
my place of business in Kansas City
land was one of those fellows who en-
joy telling good story to a congenial
Icrowd. We knew him as a good Gus
TONER of the firm, as good mixer
land as the man whose clothes could
be fitted upon my own figure"
Mabray was glad to see Mr.. Boyer.
The latter had come to Des Moines
from 0skaloosa after a visit there
with relatives. Knowing that Mabray
was a prisoner in the Polk county
Jail and wishing to satisfy his curios-
Iity as to the real identity OF the man
who has been the subject of so much
notoriety in the last few months, Mr..
Boyer asked for permission to see him
and Deputy Marshal Hammond him
Iself accompanied the visitor to the
jail
Mrs. Mabray had just arrived at her
husbands cell when Mr.. Boyer was
lushered in. The prisoner placed the
two chairs the cell affords at the dis
lposal of his old acquaintance and Mar
lshal Hammond and laughingly apollo
gized because he had not been able
to meet them at the front door.
For half an hour the conversation
dealt with the days in Kansas City.
Both Mr.. Boyer and Mabray recalled
the Kansas City flood of 1908 and with
little difficulty Mr.. BOYER remembered
having seen Mabray during the month
Iof June. when the Mccain murder was
Ibeing Investigated in st. Louis
To satisfy himself entirely as to
the prisoners Identity, Mr.. Boyer re-
moved his coat and Mabray donned il.
Fits just like 1t was made for him.
said Mrs. Mabray, and no one had the
Itemerity to contradict a representative
Iof the sex whose word is law on the
set" and hang OF garments.