The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-04-04

O0Acn warrants issued by the supreme
court Of the District Of Columbia sbe-
ciaI agents of the department Of JUS
tice simultaneously raided brokers' Of.
fees in New York. Philadelphia, Jer-
soy City, Baltimore, Cincinnati and
st. Louis.
Conspiracy indictments in which
twenty-nine persons are named-five
OF them said to be millionaires and all
interested in brokers' offices in large
cities Of the United States-were re-
turned by the federal grand jury of
the District Of Columbia upon evil
dence which agents of the department
Of Justice had been gathering for more
than year.
The indictments were withheld on
the request of Attorney General Wick
ersham so that the department of JUS.
tice detectives might make the raids
simultaneously upon the places sus-
pected of being bucket shops"
The men indicted are said to be
those financially interested in the cor
poration known as e. s. Boggs & Co.,
! which has Offices in New York and
Philadelphia; Price & Co., which has
offices in Baltimore and New York,
! and the Standard Stock and Grain
Dealers, which has offices in Jersey
City, Philadelphia, Cincinnati and st.
Louis.
Alleged co.conspirators.
AS being interested in Boggs & Co.
the following are indicted: Richard
E. Preusser, Lee Mayer, George Tur-
ner, William H. Lillis, Oliver J. Rob-
1nson. Edward S. Boggs, Harry
Fens, Robert A. Guy, all of New
York, and Al Ford and Marshall F.
Parrish of Philadelphia. Named in
connection with them as alleged CO.
conspirators are Edward Everett Tay-
lor Of Washington, D. c., and his tele-
graph operator, Harry Johnson.
In the indictments against Price &
Go. the following are named: William
B. Price, Virgil P. Randolph, Harry
M. Randolph, Charles T. Morehead,
Edward Weldon, Joseph Gaskins and
James A. Anderson, all of Baltimore;
Thomas H. Campbell and Edward B.
Taylor of Philadelphia.
In the Standard Stock and Grain
Dealers are named: Edward Alte-
mus, Samuel Raymond, Oscar J.
Raphael and Robert Hall of Jersey
City, N. j.; Louis Celia of St. Louis,
Henry c. Stumpf of Philadelphia and
Henry R. Duryee and his telegraph
operator, Charles R. Alley.
Move Prepared With Secrecy.
This, the United States govern
ment's first attack upon stock gam
bling, has been thoroughly prepared
with greatest secrecy. It's scope prac-
tically covers the United States from
the Missouri river to the Atlantic. The
three concerns indicted maintain more
than $50 Offices and branch offices To-
Gated from New England to Oklaho-
ma.
With the aid of United States At
torney Baker of the District of Colum-
hia, Special Assistant Attorney Gen.
oral A. Bruce Bielaski and Chief Finch
of Attorney General Understands
bureau of investigation have been pre-
senting the evidence to the grand jury
for several days.
The theory of the conspiracy indict-
ments is that every man who was con-
| nected in any way with the operation
OF the three firms which did business
in the district, had entered into con-
| spiracy to relieve people of their
| money.
The government maintains that
| every alleged bucketing transaction of
the local brokers named was the act
of each and every person charged in
| the indictment.