Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-23
MORE TROUBLE FOR MABRAY
State Grand Jury Returns Another
Batch of Indictments.
RUMORs OF OTHERS TO COME
Gossip Has IT That Over One Hundred
Bills May BE Returned and That
Some Council Bluffs ana Omaha
Men May BE Indicted.

The district court grand jury at Council
Bluffs reported six additional indictments
yesterday afternoon and then adjourned
for the present term. The indictments
were not made public, but it is understood
that five are against J. c. Mabray and
several Of his alleged associates.
It is reported that the new indictments
against Mabray are based on the alleged
mixing" of F. r. Marts or Polk City,
Ia; E. G. Allspaugh OF Terre Haute Ind
.C. A. Nelson of Alma, Mich. and a VIC
time from Port Royal, Canada. Larceny
and conspiracy are charged in the indict-
ments
The grand jury returned mo bills" in the
cases of Frank Pattee, charged with
malicious destruction of property, and H.
G. Davis, charged with assault with intent
to commit murder.
Rumors Of a most sensational character
in connection with the grand jury's in
vestgation of the Mabray cases were
floating about the federal building in Coun-
Gil Bluffs yesterday. 1t was rumored that
the indictments which the grand jury is
expected to return some time today will
include as defendants every person known
or suspected of being connected with the
gang of big store" swndlers in Council
Bluffs, Omaha and elsewhere.
One of the rumors floating around the
federal building was that several Council
Bluffs officials, alleged to have been cog
infant of the operations of the gang, will
be included in the long list of indicted per-
sons
"The government intends to probe to the
very bottom of this great swindle no mat
ter whom It hits" declared a federal officer
yesterday afternoon.
1t had been expected that tho grand jury
would have reported last evening but when
1t adjourned for the day there was stil
number of witnesses to be examined and
more are expected to arrive today
Many Witnesses On Hand.
One Of the witnesses before the grand
jury yesterday was O. l.. CTamer. who
came all the way from San Francisco. Mr.
Cramer is a business man who is said to
have received a letter said to have been
sent by the Mabray gang to another man
of the same name. The letter was turned
over to the postal authorities by Mr..
Cramer. Another witness from San Fran
cisco is q, Pierpoint, who formerly lived
in Marysville, Mo, Pierpoint dropTGi S2,l0O,
all the money he possessed at thS time on
a fake horse race in Council Bluffs. He
is now working in a box factory in San
Francisco for $3.50 a day.
Upwards OF fifty subpoenaes issued from
the office of the clerk of the United States
court in Omaha, and directed to witnesses
in attendance on the federal court in Coun-
ell Bluffs, were placed in the hands of
United States District Attorney Temple yes
terday for service.
There are three women among the wit
nesses in attendance at Council Bluffs
They are Mrs. n. J. Glover of st. Joseph.
Mo, wife Of a druggist who has a store in
Princeton, Mo. Postoffice Inspector Sven
son is said to have evidence Of correspond
ence between Glover and Mabray; the
woman who was housekeeper at the May
bray residence in Little Rock at the time
the house was raided and Mabray and his
associates arrested; and a woman clerk In
the office Of the clerk OF the federal court
in Little Rock who has with her some Of
the court records.
J. f. Cavanaugh Of McAIlister. OkI.. who
is in Council Bluffs as a witness, holds the
record Of the big army OF Mikes" for
the amount of money for which he was
touched" by the Mabray gang. Cavanaugh
went up against the game I'm New Orleans
and came out $4,000 loser or 81 900 more
than the gang got't3anker Ballew Of Prince
ton Mo, for.
II was reported yesterday around the
Council Bluffs federal building that
blanket indictment, with the names OF close
upon 100 defendants, had been drawn up by
Assistant United States Attorney s. r.
Rush Of Omaha, who has been detailed to
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