Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-03
Federal Grand Jury Makes Returns
Involving Wealthy Men.
ATTACK CAREFULLY PLANNED
Secret Plans Carried Out to Visit
Offices at Same Time.
GAMBLING IN STOCKS ALLEGED
indictments Handed Down by WASH
ingtOn Grand Jury Charge Con-
Epiracy to Relieve People
of Their Money.

WASHINGTON, Apuil Alarmed with
bench warrants issued by the supreme
court OF the District Of Columbia. special
agents of the Department of Justice this
morning at II o'clock eastern time) sim
ultuneously raided brokers' offices in New
York, Philadelphia, Jersey 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 returned late yesterday By
the federal grand jury Of the District Of
Columbia on evidence which agents of the
Department of Justice have been gathering
| for more than year.
! The indictments were withheld yester-
day on the request OF Attorney General
wickersham, so that the Department Of
Justice detectives might make the raids
simultaneously on the places suspected
of being bucket shops"
List of Accused Men.
The men indicted are said to be those
financially interested in the corporations
known as r. s. Boggs g. Co, which has
offices in New York and Philadelphia;
Price & Co. which has offices in Baltimore
and. New York, and the Standard Stock
anu NIIdln DedleISt which nave OlllCtS III
Jersey City, Philadelphia. Cincinnati and
ST. Louis.
As being interested in Boggs Co. the
following are indicted: Richard E. Preus-
ser, Lee Mayer, George Turner, William
NJ. Tllis, oliver j. Robinson, Edward s,
Boggs, Harry Owens, Robert A. Guy. all Of
New York, and Al Ford and Marshall f.
Parish Of Philadelphia. Named in conne~.
ton with them as alleged co-consplrators
are Edward Everett Taylor of washington,
ID. c., and his telegraph operator, Harry
johnson.
In the indictments against Price & Co.
the following are named: William b.
Price, Virgil p, Randolph. Harry NJ RAN
dolph, Charles +. Morehead, Edward We'll
lon, Joseph Gaskins and James A. Ander-
son, all OF Baltimore; Thomas h. Campbell
and Edward b. Taylor of Philadelphia.
In the Standard Stock and Grain Deal
ers are named: Edward Altemus, Daniel
Raymond Oscar j. Raphel and Robert
Hall of Jersey City. N. j.; Louis Celia of
st. Louis. Henry c. stumpf of Philadel-
phia and Henry r. Duyres and his tele-
graph operator. Charles r. Allen.
Plan Carefully Prepared.
This. the United States government $
first attack on stock gambling, has been
prepared with the greatest secrecy its
scope principally covering the United States
from the Missouri river to the Atlantic.
The three concerns indicted maintain more
than $50 offices and branch offices located
from New England to Oklahoma.
With the aid of United States Attorney
Baker OF the District of Columbia, Special
Assistant Attorney General A. Bruce r.
Claski and Chief Finch Of Attorney Gen
eral Wickersham's bureau OF investigation.
have been presenting the evidence to the
grand jury for several days
The theory of the conspiracy indictments
is that every man connected in any way
with the operation of the three firms
which do business in the district had en-
tered into a conspiracy to relieve people
Of their money. The government main
tains that every alleged bucketing tran
saction of the local brokers named was the
act Of each and every person charged in
the indictment.
Statement by Wickershnm,
Attorney General Wickersham did not
comment on the raids today further than
to issue a statement OF which the fol-
lowing is the substance:
I'm the first indictment against Preus-
ser, Mayer, Turner. etc, the defendants
are charged with conspiracy 20 commit
an offense against the United States in
violation of section $40 OF the revised
statutes. which makes unlawful the keen
ing Of bucket shops in the District Of
Columbia. Edward E. Taylor, mentioned
in the indictment maintained two offices in
Washington, and was correspondent for
Boggs & Co. Of a Broadway New York.
This firm" the attorney generals state
ment continuts "as well as those involved
in the other two indictments, alleges that
it buys and sells securities through the
Consolidated Stock ERchange of Phnadel-
phia and that Ford & Parrish are their
Representatives on that exchange.
The evidence before the grand jury tended
to show THAI t0is exchange was simply
a cover maintained to enable operators of
bucket shops to conceal the real nature
OF their operations.
"Pressuer is reported TO be a notorious
gambler, who was convicted of murder Of
ono Myles Mcdonald some years ago, as