The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1910-03-17
BADGER FARMER
AMONG VICTIMS
| GREEN BAY (WIS.) MAN TESTI-
FIES IN MABRAY CASE AT COUN-
Gil BLUFFS, IA.
LOSES $500 ON FAKE RACE.
Collections of Eighteen Alleged Swim
dlers Would Amount to at Least
0C0-Many Witnesses.
SECRETS OF "MILLIONAIRES CLUB"

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Ia. March H.
United States District Attorney Temple
! had 127 witnesses on hand when the
case of John {. Mabray and eighteen
| alleged associates was resumed today.
Judge Smith Mcpherson presiding gave
notice that daily proceedings would last
until Is p. m, with night sessions il neces-
| sary.
PostattiCe Inspector Swensou. Who has
obtained most Of the evidence in the
AIabray cases. stated today that the
known collections by the defendants
would aggregate Sl,VO0,uo0. Stores"
were operated in New Orleans, Little
and South Send which did Il thriving
| business while at Seattle and other
northWea cru points less active inStitu
tions were made part OF the string owned
. by the club.
Blanket Indictment,
Efforts are being made to obtain the
presence of X. Il. Hartman. Frank W.
Brown and Ed Moore, arrested some
time ago in Los Angeles, but latcr al
lowed 10 leave. They are included in
the blanket indictment against MabrGy
and eighty-tWo others. Hartman is al-
legged 10 have been secretary of the
''mjlliOuaircs' club ah1 to have ham
died all the money of the organization.
Counsel for the defense have given
no iukiinG of what will be presented
To countcract the testimony offered by
witness thus far has been limited, but
Emmett FINLEY leading counsel for the
defendants. indicated that he would be
prepared with half hundred persons
10 meet the evidence for the government.
Ii is not believed AIabray himself will
take the stand.
The first witness was Peter Voorhees,
a pawn broker of Alma, Mich. who
confirmed the testimony given Thursday
by Ernst renby and James Coon, con
corning the alleged swindlinE Of c. \.
Nelson.
Sees Nothing Wrong.
Voorhees, had some part in the nesotia-
tons hut declared that he did not expect
Nelson to be heeced The witness adj
mitted he saw nothing morally wrong in
taking money from members u tie Mil
lionaires' club" but regarded the Mel
son affair as quite a different thing.
Alex Delaine of Green Bay, Wis, tes
tilted that he had accumulated $500 as
Il farm Iaborcr, and lost it on fake race
at Council Bluffs. He said Fcnby and
Coon showed him letters from some one
in Council Bluffs making it clear that he
could not lose if he took hand III the
game.
Bets Turn Head.
Delainc fold how he had saved $1,000
by hard work on the farm ana on a rail
road section. and how he had come to
Council Bluffs Mt the solicitation Of Err
nest Eeuhy and James Coon He says
th"y handed him 10000 to make bets
with, and this turned his head 10 such
"n extent that he was induced to bet his
own money. Immediately his own money
was in the pool he stated, the bookmakcr
sAqt up shop and the wrestling match
was held in 4 barn loft. He never saw
his money again, he testified
William Scott, who followed Delaine,
admitted his connection with the defend
ants, and told Of taking customers to
Denver and Council Bluffs. who lost
about $4,000. He laid particular stress
ou his transactions through the mails and
declared he had correspondent with the
defendants repeatedly regarding the
sWIndIing operations alleged in the in
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