Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-03-10
THREE ADMIT GUILT IN BIG SW|NDLE
 CONSPIRACY
Maybray Syndicate Charged With Skinning Public of
 Over $1,000,000

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa, March 9. Pleading guilty to charge of con spiracy to detraud in connection with the widespread swindling operations charged against John Maybray and eighty ather defendants, Bert shores, WInn Harris and Frank Sims late this afternoon threw themselves on the mercy of the federal court.
 Early in the day the men had been arraIgned with thirteen others and pleaded not guilty.
 Maybray, 1t is said, made a propO sition to plead guilty if the Iowa in dictments were quashed. The county attorney declined to make the bargain
 The trial of John c. MayDray and as socIateS in led States alstrict court will bring to light the whole inside story of the alleged "swindle syndi- cate and lay bare to the world the inner vol kings of a conspiracy by which more than hundred victims were heeced out of total sum of money estimated at nearly $l000,000.
 1t IS sad that several men who acted as "steerers for the allenged swim dle syndicate and who were among the eighty-four indicted with Maybray by the Federal grand jury here last fall, will turn state s evidence at the trial and reveal the methods of the gang.
 Maybray and his alleged associates were indicted on a charge of conspiring to defraud through the use of the Unit ed Estates mails in the promotion of fake horse races and wrestling matches. Victims in eighteen states, the terri tory of Alaska, and the Dominion of Canada were named in the indictment, indicating the wide range of territory over which the members of the gang are alleged to have piled their voca- tion. The sums lost by the victims var jed from $500 to $30,000, the latter sum having been placed on fake horse race, it is said, by a Missouri banker.
 As a basis of operation, the gang used, according to the indictment, the cities of Burlington, Davenport, Coun-- cil Bluffs, Iowa; St. Louis, Seattle, Den yer, Little Rock and New Orleans, to which places it is alleged victims were taken by the numerous "steerers. |" The indictment named eighty.fve per sons who are alleged to have been vic tins of the gang, most of whom live in the western states.
 It is said that the system by which the gang worked will be brought out in all it's details at the trial. The evidence, it is stated will show how the gang first got it's eye on prospective vic tim, how the "steererp succeeded in drawing him on, how the gang finally got hold of him and how he was feeced. Furthermore, it is stated, the evidence will show how the gang operated for its own protection, how the athletic con tests were arranged, and, in fact, how the heads of the alleged conspiracy were able to secure as aides and al lies large number of athletes, horse men, wrestlers and other sporting men of more or less wide reputation, togeth- CT with other men said to have long criminal records. Every move of the gang from it's first inception until it's dissolution will be brought out and tes- timony of highly sensational charac- ter will mark the case as one of the most important and far reaching crimi- nal operations the country has ever known.