The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-10-08
DUPEs DROP MONEY
HOW THE EASIES FELL FOR MA
BRAY'S FAKE GAMES.
More Than $4,000 Is Alleged to Have
Been Picked UP BY the Man Who
Is Said to Have Worked Various
Schemes on the Athletic Field;
the Money Was Handed Over
With Alacrity.

Council Bluffs, Iowa, Oct. 2.-Minne.
sofa has more than $4,000 worth OF
interest in the coming trial of j. c.
Mabray who, with about eighty -four
others, is under indictment in the fed
eral court here charged with conspir-
ing to defraud, by use of the post
office. and who will be placed on trial
in this city Dec. Z. For Mabray and
his so-called "swindle syndicate" Min
nesota mas, perhaps, furnished longer
list of victims than any other state in
the Union, and as with other dupes of
the big store" gang Minnesotans were
separated from their money by vari-
Gus athletic contests.
w. H. McGrath formerly of Pine
City, Mimi, but now with offices in
the Security building in Minneapolis,
and II. j. Hollister, a grain dealer of
Minneapolis, lead the list of Minnesota
victims in the individual donations to
the "swinde syndicate" for each of
them passed over $4,000 to the crowd.
One Man Was VERY Easy.
NcGrath met his fall in August,
1907, when, as the story goes, he met
Lewis Stowe, boyhood friend whose
father was a prominent Episcopal rec
tor of Minnesota. Stowe introduced
Frank Myers to McGrath. Myers rep
resented himself, it seems, as a pro-
fessor of physical culture and he had
a cousin, George Bennett, by name, who
was private secretary to some Pitts
burg millionaires who were soiourning
in Council Bluffs.
As a matter of diversion the mil
lionaires were amusing themselves
with various sporting events and Ben
nett saw chance to make some
money if he could only get somebody
to help him in the deal. McGrath
managed to come across for $4,000,
brought it to Council Bluffs and got in
on wrestling match with the usual
result that one of the wrestlers met
with an accident and he lost his
money.
LII lHc ucoI ~ appears ehoe '1eo"S
was ruined and had to borrow money
with which to get out of Council
Bluffs.
Parted With $4,000.
HOLSTER also parted with his $l0,-
600 on a fake wrestling match about
May "a, 1907. Through various man
ipulations he was induced to come to
Omaha to buy some damaged grain.
Something came up to delay the deal
and while waiting HOLSTER was in
troduced to the Pittsburg millionaires
who were soiourning in Council Bluffs,
and a wrestling match was arranged.
1t took his $4,000.
Next in amount comes Samuel Sutor
of Cass Lake, Mimi, and A. Harring-
ton, of Minneapolis. Each of these
gentlemen went into the game for
$1,000 apiece. Sutor's fondness for
horse racing lost him his money. for
the Jockey riding the horse he mad bet
on in race pulled off here, fell from
the saddle during the race, and was
injured something awful, with the re-
suit that everybody had to hurry away
to keep out of trouble, and Sutor was
hurried away with the rest, leaving
his $1,000 in the hands of some guar
dian angel who forgot to return it to
him. Another athletic event spoiled
Harrignton's chance of doing something
else with his $4,000.
interested in Fake Fight.
L Of nnlIC drOn-
ped $4,000 to the gang about the mid
die of July. 1907. on wrestling match.
r. w. c. Shull of Minneapolis got in
terested in a fake fight along about the
same time to the extent of $1,000, and
a wrestling match in November, 1908,
caused Thomas Agern of Fergus Falls,
Mimi, to donate $1,000 to the syndi-
cate.
c. w. Field of Minneapolis is said
to have parted with some of his
money in December, 1906, but to what
extent no one SO far seems to be able
to say.
When the Mabray records were taken
by officials at Little Rock early this
year the names of b. r. Shores, Blue
Earth county, Mimi, and j. A. Nc
Ginnis, Brainerd, Mimi, appeared in
them, but whether these men assisted
in increasing the capital of the big
store is not known.
Young "Hackenschmidt" Arrested.
ST. Paul Dispatch: Thomas Il.
Kane, former county attorney of Ram
sey county, has reopened the famous
Mabray wrestling swindle in an effort
to secure in Seattle, Wash, the re-
ceipts of a match pulled off there re-
Gently between Bert Shores, alias
young Underestimate" and DIR. Rol-
Ter, a wrestler of some note on the
Pacific coast.
Mr.. Kane has client in the Ma
BRAY case in William McGrath OF Min
neapolis, who lost $4,000 in one of
the alleged fake matches, and he Sc
cured in the Ramsey. county district
court judgment against Young Hack
enschmidt for that sum, which he has
never been able to serve.
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