Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-03-16
Attorneys for Mikes Handle Prose-
cution's Star With Kid Gloves
FEAR HE MAY TELL ALL
Testimony Of Spokane Man,
Concluded, Sensation of II
WILL UNFOLD MORE YET TO
New Jobs, reach Cars Of PrOsecut
In which One Victim was Former
Prosecutor of Cook County,
HI.-Mabray DIary Of
fered iHfsyidence.

Five million dollara have been taken
from the mikes by the big store gang
since It's organization ln 1898. according to
the ono man who knows, Howard b. simp-
son. now a Spokane capitalist. Simpson is
the stor witness for the government and
the one fear Of the defense In the trial Of
the Mabray gang in federal court at Coun-
Gil Bluffs
simpson, the man who knows the gang
from the day Of its beginning. took the wit
stand yesterday to aid the govern
ment In the Introduction Of documentary
veldence. Each and every man he knew.
and IN answers OF yes. and no told the
Why when and where Neither side ques-
toned the authority of his statements.
They knew he knew hat was enough.
Simpson has a grudge to square He
claims that It shall be squared and squaerd
completely when he gets the opportunity
TO testify against r. =. HERMAN, Ed. c.
Moore and Frank Brown OF the Lps An
geles store, who viii probably be tried in
federal court in Omaha.
simpson alone has knowledge of the
gigantic scope Of the operations of the
gang His estimate of $5OOO,O0O is based
on real figures. The government now has
an accounting OF operations which netted
the gangs store in excess of Sl,5OOO00.
There are Jobs of which the government
has never learned says Simpson, and he
promises to tell it all when the time comes.
He will be then revenged on that Los An
geles crew.
Reap s25O,OOO In Council BIuffS. 1908
The Council Bluffs store In the one pros
porous season Of 1905 In which It operated
in the city across the river, collected a
total of $2500O0, Macellus l.. Temple. dis
trct attorney. yesterday was Informed of
two Jobs which have never before come to
officials which discount all mlkInb oper-
atlons on record Canadian mike Is said
to have lost $4,000 Second in rank was a
former prosecutor OF Cook county III.
who was mixed for $55.OOO. To add to the
ienomy OF his fall this gang is declared to
have put tho prosecutor-mike up on big
flat rock and forced him 10 deliver
speech to Them Immediately after he had
been operated on.
The work OF tho secret service men and
the postoffice detectives is constantly
adding TO the list OF mlkes-and the end
Is not in sight Officials working on the
investigation Of the big store gang are
convinced that but a fraction have been
discovered. Scores yet remain who would
rather keep still about their losses than
to face publicity and ridicule. The pre-
mier mike whose msfortunes are among
the records now in court at Council Bluffs
is j. f. Cavanaugh of Oklahoma City,
who lost $4,000,
WItnesed DeIIcateIy Treated.
simpsons testimony marked the best
that the government has adduced in the
positive connecting up of the members of
the gang. BY the defense he has been
handled With the utmost delcacy. In the
words of one Of the lawyers for the de-
Tense, "He might break loose and tell
whole lot more than we want him to-"
Simpson may yet be recalled to the stand
for q bit more OF the exceedingly careful
cross-eNamihation, but while he is on the
witness stand the general attitude of the
defense win continue to be that of a man
IN a powder house
y The prosecution scored when George Al
berts. clothier az Sioux city, mixed for
81, 900 and later offered Job as steerer
to recuperate his losses in the betrayal
OF an employer produced 'show letter"
written by a Maybrayite and sent to him
through the malls. The introduction of
this letter brought forth one of the hattles
OF the trial from the defense's opposition.
AZ the one great expert on mikeology
simpson was put on the stand when the
prosecution produced the Mabray's direc-
tory containing the official record of the
operations OF the gang. Exhibit No. 1O1"
Is the official appellation OF the elabo-
ratoiy indexed pocket ledger which held
the secrets of the gang In finely exc
outed penmsnship the number of each of
the mixers is given with his real name
and all aliases, together with true and
fictitious addresses.
secret Code Explained.
From this valued book. taken in the raid
AZ Pulaski Heights near Little Rock. from
NHsk. A..
cutting attorney called the name from the
coded pages while simpson told the his
tory In terse sentences OF the man named.
N ia have had the sense OF a yellow
dog 1 would not have been into it," said
James Turner former police Judge Of Cum
berland Nd, 5000 mike of the Council
Bluffs stores July crop Of 1907
Even Ilis Voice IL sore.
Turner Is so "sore" about II his voice
was husky az he testified Some OF the
bitter words seemed to choke him. He now
lives at Meyersdale. Pa.
Turner had just been turned" for $500
Oh horse race scheme in Chicago when
Clarence Glass. defendant under alias of
O'Brien. picked him up.
Turner told story OF the fight in which
he backed Glass, by rounds.
NJ man got too keen and got knocked
out In the third round. He bcd out Of the
ears.3
a went back to Chicago and got sick
II liked 20 died. too; wish to God !
had"
New what was said and done?" asked
sylvester r. Rush. Orawing the witness on
reserd to the Council Bluffs race.
We'll. Il was mostly done, more'n IL was
said" replied Turner fun Of grief.
"A Was putting up the money OF my own
yelltlon' ! didn't have sense enough to see
what j was up against" said the witness
IN q tone OF self-pity
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