Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-26

| Bluffs and started a still hunt for the
| fellows reporting his case to the fed
era authorities and engaging a firm
| OF Council Bluffs attorneys to conduct
| the investigation. 1t is said that the
evidence that he gave before the grand
| jury was very convincing.
| A man named McC;rath, a resident
| of Minneapolis, and understood to be
a man of wealth, was one of the vic
| TINS to the tune of $4,000, the same
sum which Sutor dropped to the gang.
lie is said also to have employed a
number of leading attorneys to assist
the authorities in prosecuting the
swindlers.
| A Near Victim.
| Charles r. Robinson, "a we'll to- do
citizen of Seattle, was one of the near
victims of the gang 1t is said that
Robinson came here prepared to invest
a large sum in one of the enter
prises' held out as good thing.
| Whether by accident or thru business
shreWdness Robinson was given a
"hunch' which induced him to return
home minus his expense for his re-
| turn trip.
| When Robinson arrived here he ex-
pected to be met at the depot by some
officer of a corporation, the president
of which had written him advising him
to come prepared to take up certain real
estate bargains in the purchase of q
right way.
Missed Connections at the Station.
Robinson, chagrinned. went to the
Grand hotel, where he interviewed M.
| b. Park, assistant manager of the no.
| tel, asking him who We're the mana
gers OF the interurban company in
| Council Bluffs. Mr.. Park referred
Robinson to c. C. Clifton, who is one
! Of the owners OF the Central bridge
| charter, and who has been negotiating
with several interurban companies that
have proposed lines into Council Bluffs.
Robinson saw Mr. Clifton and also A.
p. Fair, manager of the Nebraska Tel
ephone Company, to whom. he eX-
| hibited a certificate of deposit for
$50, 600 ON one of the local banks, which
sum he said he had brought with him
on the advice of the supposed interur-
ban company, to invest in land for the
| right -of-Way.
| Clifton and Fair Advise Robinson.
Both Mr. Fair and Mr.. Clifton had
| their suspicious aroused and showed
Robinson accounts of the operations of
| the alleged swindlers in newspapers
advising Robinson to hike for home
with his money Whether Robinson
profited by the suggestion or not was
not revealed to either Mr.. Fair or Mr.
! Clifton. but Robinson was seen day
| later in conversation with three sup
posed members of the gang, one OF
whom was the owner of the red auto
mobile.
| Ed Pierce, janitor at the Merriam
block where Mayhray and his friends
| had their headquarters as the south
ern Land and Timber Company" from
about a year ago until late last fall.
says that they brought fine look
| ing lot of gentlemen there THESE
| fine looking gentlemen came from Varl-
Gus distant parts, and, unless the rec
| ords kept by Maybray, and secured py
the officers in the Little Rock raid,
reveal them, the names of all the VIC
| tins feeced by the gang will never
| be known.
A Nashville Man Among Them.
| Among them was a wealthy maa
| from Nashville, Tenn, who later wrote
to Inspector Swensen giving detailed
statement of how it happened. but who
refused to come here and prosecute pa-
cause he feared that he would be I'M
plicated in some way with the death
| of q wrestler, who was Killed IN n
wrestling match pulled off in Sc
| cluded dell near the road to Munster
Springs, in the northern part OF TINS
| CITY. This man was also separated
from $1,000.
The wrestling match was another
favorite trick of the gaAgsters and the
place selected for pulling off the sWin-
die is particularly Well adapted to the
purpose, being in secluded place anu
where a number of roads diverge. Of
fering escape to the city or into the
country In the wrestling contests one
| of the participants was invariable
KILLED"
A Marshall County Man Too.
! C. H. Reece, a prominent farmer and
feeder of Marshall county, Iowa, is an
other would be investor who came here
to look after great snap in Louisiana
I land, but got wise and returned home
without dropping his wad
Grand Jury Testimony.
The testimony of four witnesses CIV
en- before the grand jury which re-
| turned the indictment against May.
bray, John R. Dobbins and others,
threw additional light upon the man
ner in which the men carried on their
operations in this city and the effort
on their part to create the impression
of stability in their schemes.
DIR. F. H. Hollingsworth testlEed
that he treated a sorrel race horse in
June, 1908, at his veterinary hospital
| and that some time during the fol-
lowing month another horse. a bay
was brought to his place for treat
ment. Both horses We're brought to the
hospital by jockies. Several we'll
dressed strangers visited the place sew
eral times and seemed greatly inter
ested in the horses. One of the strans
ers came in a red automobile and pa
the veterinary for his services.
Had Strong Box.
! Frank Blank cashier in f. ID. Hart
| private bank told of transactions wlta
| Maybray, before the grand jury. MAY
bray. Blank testified, rented a stron
box in the bank. Maybray representa-
that he lived here and he gave "R. L
Hartman" the use Of his box. MAY
bray maintained the box between Ma
and November, 1905 during which time
ba and Hartman frequently visited sn