Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-16
ROBINSON HAS MS HEARIN
Alleged CRATER IL Held In $4,000
nonda.

SAN
As the result Of the preliminary hearing
held yesterday before Justice Gardiner, T.
S. Robinson of Pennington. Ia, alleged
member Of the ]. c. Maybray gang Of
swindlers, was bound over to await the
action OF the district court grand jury,
which will convene August 81. His bail
bond was placed at 81, 800. which he expects
to furnish today. Robinson was repre-
sented at the hearing by T.. L. McCoid
an attorney OF Keokuk. Ia, and by Attor-
George S. Wright of this city. +. @. Ais
paugh Of Terre Haute, Ind, who was
buncoed out OF $1,000 in this city in Au-
gust Of last year by the Maybray gang,
was present at the hearing and was a wit
ness for the state. Robinson is charged
with having acted as "steerer' in Ais
paugh's case and to have been one of the
principals in the take wrestling match on
which Allspaugh dropped his wad.
Allspaugh is a haberdasher in Terre
Haute and evidently has, or at least did
have before his experience In Council
Bluffs, a dash of sporting blood in him.
According to his testimony yesterday, Rob
inson and w. H. Barton, a restaurant
keeper in Terre Haute, induced him to
come to Council Bluffs to act merely as
stakeholder at the wrestling match. In
consideration Of his holding the stakes, the
witness said, he was to receive a share
OF the winnings. His story OF how he was
induced to put up his own good money
varied but little from that of the other
Mikes" who were fleeced by the same
gang. The first fall in the wrestling
match, won by Robinson, was apparently
all right, but in the second round Robin,
son was supposed to rave been severely In.
jured and pulled off the now familiar stun
of bleeding profusely from the mouth. TIL,
match was stopped and Allspaugh wa:
given to understand tina It would be pulled
off again and to a finish at Decatur, Ill
Allspaugh never saw the finish of tn,
match and likewise never got his optics
on his money again.
A witness introduced by the state was o
o. Newberry, a farmer and householder o.
Lee county, Iowa. Newberry, according t
his story, had been Mixed" over TIVE
years ago at Wilkesbarre, Pa, out of SIS,
900 on a fake wrestling match. Robinson
Newberry testified, had been the "steerer'
who had induced him to go to Wilkesbarr,
on a supposed land deal. When Newberr!
reached the Pennsylvania town. he wa
switched from the land deal to the wrestl
ing match and the proposition seemed 8
, good to him that he was induced to put u
Sl0,OOO. According to NeWberry, Maybray
the alleged head of the gang which operat
ed in New Orleans and Council Bluffs, wa
not mixed up in the deal at WilkesbarrC
Newberry has been to Des Molnes and sa1
| Maybray in Jail there but failed to identi
fy him as one Of the gang which fleece
him.
During the hearing Attorney McCoid too
occasion to severely score Postoffice II
spector Swenson, whom he accused of usin
his position as a government officer a
a collection agency OF the state courtl
He said that while ostensibly seeking ev
dence In cases In the federal court, M
Swenson was in fact assisting in the pros,
cution Of cases in the state courts. Sewers
times Attorney McCoid referred to what b
termed Mr.. Swenson's "pernicious activity
in connection with proceedings both erin
inal and civil in the state courts again.
the alleged members of the Maybray gan