The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-05-18
USES GUN TO EN-
FORCE DEMANDS
Sensational Story Brought to Light
Through Indictments of Boise Men
Illegal Land DeaIings.-Nathan c.
Bray and Walter Kyle Arrested and
Two More Badly Wanted.


were arrested in this city y sterday
on bench warrants issued by Judge
Frank S. Dietrich of the United
States court. Later they We're re-
leased temporarily On their own recog
nizance, to permit Them to S cure
sail, which it is understood will be
$1,000 in each case.
This action in the United States
court is The direct result of indict-
ments found by the recent federal
grand jury in Pocateilo against Ma
than c. Bray, Walter Kyle, Isaac c.
and Horace Bray, on the chargn OF
conspiracy to defraud in connection
with a land entry. The other two
men will be arrested, it is presumed,
today, and all are scheduled TO aD-
pear in court today to answer to the
indictment.
Government experts have been at
work on tn case for some time past,
but the facts upon which thee indict-
ment is based did not come to the
surface until after the grand jury had
adjourned to this city. Hence the in
dictment in Poca.ello.
If all the facts in this case are
brought out it will, it is promised,
prove one of the most interesting in
years, and it is limited that the in
dicted men will not be the only suf-
ferers. The law firm of Davidso., &
Bacon has been retained for the de
Tense The exact nature of the evil
dence against the indicted men is
known only to the governm mt Off
cials. The defense is just as secr2.
tiveI
1t is intimated that one of the
will be E. H. Hulser, who for a time
acted as attorney for the Bray broth
ers and Kyle, He will stify, it is
asserted, that April 8 last he was
called 10 the Capitol hotel in this
city by his clients, AID that after he
entered their room the door was lock
ed and an effort was made to force
him into The acknowledgment of the
signature of W. W. S lby to his re-
linquishment of so acres of land in
Deer Flat, near Nampa.
isaac Bray, it is charged, drew a
revolver and threatened to kill Hulsel
if he refused to acknowledge Selby's
signature. On the plea that he did
not possess his notarial seal and that
his acknowledgment would be use
less without it, Hulser, it is said, es-
capped from the room. Later, when
he wen. to his own office in the Sol-
na building, he discov red that his
seal had been used, and surmising
that the Bray brothers and Kyle had
used it on the alleged fraudulent Sci
by REIMBURSEMENT, he went at O-ce
10 the local United States lad office
and told the officials ther of his
suspicious. The next day the Bray
brothers and Kyle, it is said, present
ed the Selby REIMBURSEMENT, which
was rejected.
Government experts were put to
work on tn case, with the result THAI
the four men were indicted by the
federal grand jury at Pocatello, and
the arrests made yesterday followed
as a matter of course.
One of the Brays lives in Caldwell
one at Nj ridian and one in Boise
Kyle lives down the river in Boise
valley. The Brays came to Idaho
from Tennessee about five years ago
Since then they have filed on govern
ment la.ad and have traded NOR OF
less in real estate. Nathan c. Bray
is a man 6f family. All the Others
are single.-Statesman