The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-04-30
TALE TOLD IN JAIL
WOMAN CLAIMS THAT ]. C. MAY
BRAY is ONE M'CANN.
Latter Supposed to Have Been Muir
dered Near St. Louis; Female De-
tective From England Springs a
Sensation at Des Moines; Prisoner
Denies He Is Dead One; st. Louis
Pronounces Story Ridiculous"

Des Moines, April 26.-Local United
State officials declare that J. c. May
bray. in jail here accused of working
fake horse races throughout the coun
try. has been identified as Mccain
who is supposed to have been muir
dered by Lord Darlington in st. Loni.
several years ago and for which Bar
rington is now serving a life sentence
Maybray denied that he is Mccain
and in an interview said:
$50 they are trying TO make me out
4 dead one. Well, this is new, sure
They have me listed as everything else
in the catalogue of crimes, but / did
not believe they would put me in the
down-and out class. | am not McCann
] never knew him. | lived i'm st. Louis
however. and knew all the boys down
there"
The officials base their statements
on the claims of Mrs. Laura Gates of
ST Louis. who went to the jail today
and asserted she knew McCann, and
positively identified Maybray as the
~. LOUIS DOistliltH.
Lonis Deming, a grain broker from
ST. Louis, also met Maybray and later
asserted that Maybray was none other
than McCann
Declared Him to Be McCann
Mrs. Gates went TO the office of the
United States marshal and was accom-
panied To the county jail by several
officials from that office. She was
taken To the cell where Maybray is
confined. After she had looked at him
she declared:
That man is James d. Mccain, the
man who is supposed to have been
murdered near ST. Louis years ago.
Maybray and McCann are one and the
same man."
At The time Mayhray made no com
ment.
Mrs. Gates later said: Mccain
was arrested several times for oper-
ating fake turf investments. The
scheme which the so-called Maybray
is alleged to have operated in Council
Bluffs is identical with the one oper-
ated during the worlds fair and which
/ have all plans, data, etc. 1t was
for the reason they were at Bonfeld,
as Mccain was negotiating for a
house in the country where they could
be free from police surveillance
Says He Killed Girl.
The scene was the most dramatic
and sensational that has come to light
in the case of Maybray, and his col
leagues charged with the operation of
fake sporting events in which various
victims were mulcted out of 100000
Mrs. Gates not only declared that
Maybray is MeCann, but she alleged
that Mccain killed girl accidentally
at a summer garden near st. Louis
three days previous to the supposed
murder of Mccain, and that the body
was taken TO an Olive street house,
placed in the furnace and burned.
Mrs. Gates, who is a detective in the
employ of the British consul at st.
Louis. had with her today police
record of Mccain obtained in Chicago.
Secuted at St. Louis.
St Louis, April 24.-"Ridiculous,' -
was the general Characterization here
of the report from Des Moines that
]. NJ. Maybray is really McCann, for
whose murder Lord Darlington" is
serving life sentence at Jefferson
City, Mo.
Former officials assert that the es-
tablishment of the corpus deficit in the
ease was made beyond any reasonable
doubt.
Mccain was killed about four years
ago, his body being discovered in a
lonely spot in st. Louis county. "Bar-
; rington," who had posed here as a
member of the British nobility, had
been befriended by the man he killed
and in his trial facts in his career
were brought ont to show that he had
served terms in several foreign prisons