Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-03-14
NIKE" WORKER LOSES RACE
Willard Powell Out $1,000 Because
His Jockey Flunks.
WEARY SUNDAY FOR ALL HANDS
DObbinS stilI Hangs Around Council
Bluffs to Soak UD Good Things
Rs They Occur-"DIamOnd
Grip Takes Notes.
From the Cleveland Leader.

Mixed while on trial for miking-that has
been the experience OF Willard Powell of
Jacksonville Fla, a defendant in the Ma
bray case in federal court at Council Bluffs
The mixing process was administered
through the usual medium, the horse race.
Mr.. Powelps fastest nag lost when picked
for a sure winner in a race held Wednes-
day at Jacksonville. The jockey had cruel
things said to him by the judges and II is
reported that he has been suspended. The
judges declared that the race should have
gone to Powell's horse but 1t didn't and he
is out $1,000.
Powell is reticent about the matter and
loath to say much about the Jockey.
He didn't get into the running as he
ought to have anyway admitted the
owner of the horse that lost
The testimony Of Joseph X. Walker, a
Denver saloonkeeper virtually exonerated
Powell for his part Ia 4I.A race at Council
Bluffs which cost the Denver man IS COO.
Powell is elated over the showing made
and his attorney is confident OF an aequit-
tai Powell is not reconciled to that Jack
sonville race, however.
The quiet of the Sabbath brought to-
gether and reconciled Lewis W. Stowe of
Miles City, Mont defendant, and his
alleged victim and old college chum, II. M.
McGrath Of Minneapolis. An examination
OF the data in the possession of the post
offlce inspectors and a conference Of the
young men is said to have developed that
Stowe was a tool in the hands of others,
himself guileless
Stoves father is the rector Of an Episco-
pal church at Minneapolis. McGrath is a
member Of that church. In their youth
the two were in college together. The race
In this case cost McGrath $4,000. McGrath
VIII probably be excused as a witness
Mrs. Herman Takes NOtes,
The diamond girl" Mrs. r. B. Herman.
whose husband Is under Indictment for
playing the millionaire in the Mabray serlo-
comedy, despite the fact that she was ex-
cused as a witness for the government, vet
fingers a spectator in the court room. Mrs.
HERMAN is taking notes on\the testimony
OF many Of the witnesses, with tiny pencil
concealed in her jeweled hand.
HERMAN is not on trial at Council
Bluffs, although included in the blanket in
dietment. He was last located in Los An
geles, where he, with Ed C. Moore and
Frank Brown, also Mabray "millonalres,"
were convicted of mixing and sentenced TO
six months in jail by the state court In
consideration of their promise to betake
themselves from the envrons Of Los An
seles the trio was allowed to depart with
out serving the sentence Since that time
HERMAN has been officially lost
Council Bluffs convention Of mikes and
mixers found Sunday a wearisome day.
Mikes and mixers were to be seen playing
together in the billiard room at the Grand
hotel. They even strolled the streets to-
gether. There were some good losers among
the mixed.
Lingering STILL though he has gained
temporary respite from prosecution in fed
eral court, is John r. Dobbins, the first
OF the steerers to come to trial. He was
convicted OF steering T. w. Balew Of
Princeton, Mo-, into $4,000 Council Bluffs
race
Dobbins strools back and forth between
the court house and his hotel He Is quiet
and reserved, still bearing himself like a
railway magnate or a banker He and Mrs
Dobblns sit in the court room much Of the
session to hear the tales of the mikes
They are strangers to me-" said Dob
bins cycling group In the Grand hotel Il
have never seen them before"
When the trial Is resumed in federal
court this morning the government Will
continue to pile in the documentary testi-
mony. Many more Of the mikes are yet to
be heard from and there are several Of the
defendants now on trial whose connection
with the operations OF the gang Is yet to
be established. The prosecution does not
expect to rest Its case before Tuesday
night OF Wednesday morning, and the pos
sibilty exists that the line Of action mapped
out will require much longer.