Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-03
STATE MAKING STRONGER CASE
THAN 1T DID AGAINST
DoRBINs.
SCOTT RAN AWAY WHEN
SOUGHT BY THE OFFICERS
Knew He Wa. Wanted for Completely
in Race Track swindIe-Father-in in
Law Appears as Witness Against
Defendant-cast Of Britt, on the
Stand.

Special to Times-Rep publican.
Council Bluffs, Feb. st is believed
that the state is making an even
stronger case against Frank Scott than
it did in the Dobbins trial, when the
Mabray steerer was promptly convict
ed. Some Of the most striking testi
mony was that given by Patrick Dor
sey, Of Fender, Neb., sheriff Of Thurs
ton county. Dorsey testified that dur
ing the latter part of April he met
Scott on the street in Pender which
was a few days after the time at which
Hermelbercht claims to have been
swindled out of $4,000 by scoot and his
crowd
Scott asked me if I mad a warrant
for him. said Sheriff Dorsey on the
witness stand. Il asked him If he was
joking. He wanted to know why I
was chasing him around the country.
and 1 said I wasn't. He asked me if
did not telephone to the sheriff at
Wayne to find out if he (Scott) was
he replied that some one had done so.
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"Then Scott told me that there was
bunch of fellows down at Council
Bluffs and that they had horse race
deal fixed up, that he and one Con-
nors had induced Herme1brecht to
come down to Council BLUFFS and put
his money into the thing. Scott said
that he and Connors received half of
the money lost by Hermelbrecht and
divided it between them The other
half, he said, went to the men In
Council Bluffs. don't remember what
name he gave the organization. Scott
at the time pulled a big roll Of bills
from his pocket and showed It to me.
There seemed to be a large amount. 1
supposed it to be the same money he
had been talking about"
Scott Had Flown When Sought.
Sheriff Dorsey then told about be-
ing asked to arrest Scott by the sheriff
of Pottawattamie county, which was
about the time that Malay and the
others were arrested in Little Rock,
Ark Dorsey went to SCOTS place OF
business but the man could not be
found.
A feature Of the testimony for the
prosecution was the appearance on the
witness stand Of II. G. Campbell,
farmer so years old, father-in-law OF
the defendant. Campbell was unable to
conceal the fact that he felt very bitter
towards his daughters husband. Altho
suffering from partial blindness and
deafness, and despite his age, the wit
ness made a decidedly aggressive ap-
pearance and his testimony was of the
most damaging character. Counsel for
Scott undertook to minimize the effect
of the old mans testimony by making
an effort to show his animostty for his
SON. n-law.
At one juncture Mr. FINLEY, SCOTS
leading counsel, abruptly asked Camp
bell, "Is it not a fact that you have
no use for your son-in-law, the de-
fendant?" The aged witness, after de-
liberating for few seconds, replied III
clear tones: well, to tell the truth I
have seen men I have thought more
Of"
Wanted to Tell Of SCOTS Boasts.
| Campbell was evidently anxious to
tell on the witness stand, that his SON
! in-law, according to his statement, had
come to him and told him all about
| beating the Dutchman out OF $4,000,
but on being pressed for dates the wit
ness could not fix them close enough
to admit the statement in evidence.
Among other things which had COM
binedN ito arouse the enmity OF the
father-in-l was the placing OF
mortgage on their farm by Scott and
! his wife to secure his release from jail
! on $4,000 bond. Counsel Tor the de-
| tense tried to make use OF this incl
dent in this way. They tried to get the
| witness to testify that he had told his
daughter that if she permitted mort
gage to be placed on their farm, ne
would send Scott to the penitentiary.
Campbell denied this but his testimony
clearly showed that he was much
| wrought up when he learned that
mortgage had been placed on the farm
| to secure the men who had furnlsneo
a bail bond for Scott.
Castle, Of Britt, on the Stand.
George f. Castle, of Britt, iowa, was
on the stand and told OF, how he was
neeced by the gang. Castle is a vet
eran of the civil war, and q prominent
business man Of his home town, own
| ing interests in a bank there and In
banks in Colorado. His testimony did
not vary in detail from that given by
w. H. Bedford, of Bolckow. Mo-. an
other OF the victims OF the Mabray
gang who was swindled out of $4,000,
according to his story.
The defense claim to nave secured
much. encouragement from a ruling OF
Judge O.. D. Wheeler, presiding in this
case, who held that the testimony OF
victims of the Mabray swindIes is adj
MISSILE solely to show that repre-
sensations made to other victims were
500 REWARD, 500.
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