Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-10-27
MEMBER OF MAeRAY. GANG TO
DEFEND CHARGE OF LARCENY
OF $4,000.
ATTORNEY GENERAL eYERs
THINKS 1T STRONGEST CASE
To Be Given Preference BY State Over
Conspiracy cRarse-lmportant Wit
nesses subpoenaed-Dobbins at Pres
emit in Aidins-Dobbins Received
$500 As Share Of BaIlsw Graft.

Council bluffs, Oct. 27.-County At
torney j. ]. Hess and Attorney General
Byers have decided that, of the two in
dictments pending against John r.
Dobbins in the district court, the one
charging larceny of $4,000 from Il. w.
Ballew, the millionaire Princeton, Mo-,
banker shall be first tried. Dobbins is
indicted also on a charge of conspiracy
to rob and steal. The state has the
shall be first taken up.
The larceny charge is regarded by
the state as the stronger. In fact, the
Iowa supreme court, in it's ruling in the
cases OF Leon Loser, or Lozier, and Ed
Moore, knocked out a conspiracy
charge in a somewhat similar case
Loser and Moore were then local sports,
the former being foot racer and the
latter a gambler. They were indicted
for conspiring to swfndle William
Barker and Charles Gregory out of
several Thousand dollars on a. fake race
in Webb City, Mo.
ORIGINAL Mike Makers.
The Webb City gang was the prede-
cessor of the Mabray syndicate in the
Mike making business. Loser and
Moore, it was shown by the evidence
given in their trials, induced Gregory
wager some $4,000 or $1,000 on a race,
which, of course, went against them.
incidentally, Loser is one of the men
indicted in the federal court here and
in Omaha as a. steerer and accomplice
IN the Alabray operations.
1t is declared by lawyers that, in
| order to prove Dobbins guilty of lar
ceny, of Ballew's 100000, it must be
shown that he actually participated in
division of the plumber. lit is to this
point in the case that the evidence
OF three witnesses is directed who have
been subpoenaed by County Attorney
Hess. Notice of the sunlmoning of
these witnesses has just been filed by
the state in the office of the clerk of
the district court. They are Gilmore
| Marley, a hotel keeper of Centerville,
Scott Craig. "a conductor on the K. c.,
st. Joe & Council Bluffs railroad line,
Lew Young and Levi Lowery, a stodk-
buyer.
Expect Important Evidence.
Marley is expected to testify that
Doddins, Immediately after the swim
ding of Ballew, showed him diamonds
which Dobbins valued at 1920, and
which he told Marley he had just re-
deemed with money secured at Council
Bluffs.
Craig, Young and Lowery will testi-
fy, it is stated, that Dobbins told them
on Craigs train about the swindling OF
Ballew and that he had received his
share of the money. This was while
Dobbins, it is claimed, was enroute
from Council Bluffs Immediately after
Bailey had been initiated into the Nu-
merous and Susceptible Order OF
Mikes.
Dobbins is said to have received
$500 as his share of the Ballew SWIM
die. 1t was the rule of the syndicate
as shown by the memoranda found in
the possession of Mabray at Little
Rock, Ark, to give the steerer so per
cent of the proceeds of his deal" 4
second man named Martin is said to
have been implicated with Dobbins in
the Ballew swindle, and the $3.50
which represented the steerer's share
of the Ballow money was divided be-
tween them.
Dobbins Disappears.
Dobbins disappeared from Council
Bluffs about the time the federal grand
jury returned its indictment here
Where he is no one here except his
attorneys knows. and they naturally
decline to discuss the subject They
Ehaye, however, given assurance to
County Attorney Hess that their client
will be here when his case is called
for 1,ial in the district court Or