The Sentinel=record., 1913-01-22
CHARLES H. MACK SAYS SUM OF s2,ooo AND ss5o WERE STOLEN
 FROM HIM.
SUES BANKS AND CITIZENS
Wood and Wood Have the Suits in Hand, and improbable That Any Settlement Will Be Accepted
 By Them.

Charles H. Mack yesterday became plaintiffs in two civil actions, filed in circuit court in which he alleges that he was robbed of two deposit cheeks on local banks, and he seeks to have two individual citizens, and the two banks. reimburse him for the losses.
 The suits were filed by Wood and Wood, and MT. Mack is the man from Montana, who claimed to have been picked up here and taken to Little Rock. and there robbed of about $3,- 600 in a fake horse race pool room.
 One of the actions makes Ed Spear and the Arkansas National Bank de- fendants in the sum of $950. l.. Mack sets up that he had a deposit check on the Arkansas National bank pay able only to himself and against which he had drawn but $50, leaving a balance there of $950. He asserts that P. T. Emerson and II. Hurst, the former as the original and the latter as a confederate, stole the deposit check from him, in Little Rock, and that it was delivered in this city to Spear, who cashed It at the Arkan- sas National bank.
 The other action makes the Secur- ity bank, l.. D. Cooper and Ed Spear the defendants. and is in the sum of s2.000 The complaint is in effect that Mack had $2000 on deposit in this bank. and that it was not subject to be paid to any one but himself. He alleges that the same parties, Elmer son and Hurst, robbed him of this deposit check, and thar they also turn cd this deposit check over to Ed Spear, who in turn turned it over to L. D. Cooper, and that Cooper deposit ed 1t with the Security bank only un- der the agreement that he, Cooper, would be responsible for the sum.
 It is alleged in the complaint thai Spear knew that he could not get the check cashed and that for this reason t was given over to L. D. cooper, who made the deposit, and. that Cooper was informed at the bank that the money would not be placed to his credit except under the condition that Cooper should be responsible.
 The charge continues to say that when the bank found out that Mack would demand his money that 1t made a demand on Cooper, and that Cooper made demand on Spear, and that all the parties to the transaction are liable to the plaintiff in the sum he claims was stolen from him.
 The civil actions both claim that Emerson and Hurst stole the certi- ficates of deposits from Charles Mack, and that while he negotiated them here. they were non-negotiable and therefore no person lad the right to handle them, or the banks to pay them.
 The parties, Emerson and Hurst, are believed to be fictitious names applied to some of the confidence men who have been operating here during the early winter season. The plain tiff, Mack, has been here for some little time, and will remain, it is stat ed, until he has completed some identifiactions, and it is probable that some arrests will be made in the cases.
 Mack told the story on which the suits are based some time ago, and according to the story he was picked up here by some clever swindlers, who were going back to his home in Texas with him. They furnished some excuse for going through Little Rock enroute to Texas, and there were supposed to have run inoidental' ly across wealthy race horse opera tor, who won large sums of money In a secret pool room.
 Mack claims he was lured into the situation. and that his deposit checks were stolen from him. He told ot the alleged pool room" in Little Rock, where there were supposed to pc Posted results from the races, ana which indicated to him that men were gambling in large sums.
 Was "Bromo King"
 The story that Mack told his conh- sel is one pathetic in some instances and almost tragic in others. He had