The Sentinel=record., 1913-03-26
coRRoBoRATloN OF FOX STORY TO GRAND JURY TOLD WHEN
 Ii. A. JONES TEsTlFlEs.
Forfeiture Taken on Bond of "Bia Charlie" Wilt Who Is Unheard From--Wittnesse Be-
 fore Grand Jury.

I ators here, H. A. Jones, of the Ma jestic hotel was called into the grand jury room. He was held there for few minutes and deputy was sent 10 the county jail for |. H. Ward, alias Bert Sterling, alias The Brass Kid, who was ushered into the grand jury room. identified by Mr. Jones, and taken back to his cell. The swindle cases were given first attention by the grand jury. One im- p0rtant point was decided on yester- day morning early when Attorney w. H. Martin, special counsel for Fox and others who had been swindled here, was permitted to be present in the grand jury room during the ex- animation of witnesses.
 The law provides only for the pros. ecuting attorney or his deputy to be in the grand jury room. but Attorney Martin is familiar with all the de- tails of the swindle cases, and through the consent of the court and the prosecuting attorney, he was per mitted to be present.
 It is said there is one supreme
 
 est tribunal rendered a decision tha: while 1t was unusual for an outside attorney to be present in the grand jury room, yet that fact would not be sufficient for this tribunal to set aside any action taken
 Big Charlie Wilt was not pres ent yesterday in court. and a formal forfeiture was taken on his bond. The bond Is in the sum of $I0000, and the bondsmen are becoming doubtful If Wilt will ever return, though there is another speculation to the effect that Wilt will stay out until after if is too late for him to be handled at this term of court, and then come in, move for setting aside the for feiture. and try to get off until an- other term of court without having his bondsmen suffer.
 A number of witnesses on the FoD cases were examined yesterday in- cllSding Frank P Fox, who was swindled H. A. Jones, manager of the Majestic hotel, where Fox stopped; C. N. Rix, president of the Arkansas National Bank, through which some of the paper passed; Ed Spear, who was questioned at length about the identity of many of the men accused of the swindle operations, and about whose cigar store they assembled while here, and who it is alleged handled much of the paper; Willie North, chaffeur, who 1t is alleged drove the ear which met Fox and his party on two occasions, and met Mack and others who were swindled on arrival.
 J H. Humping. who was swindled cut of about $S,000 was among the witnesses who spent the day in the ante room with Burns detectives and others ready to respond to the call of the grand jury when they are wanted. Attorney Fowler of Fargo, representing Ferdinand Piper who was ,swindled out of $12,00Q and later recovered $2,000 of that sum in Chicago, is also ready to tell his story, and 1t is said civil actions as well as criminal actions will grow out of this case.
 Jack Porter, one of the accused men in the Humping case, was about the streets yesterday, and ready to answer in court at any time. There were a number of new subpoenas issued yesterday by the grand jury and sufficient in number to be ass surance that the probe on the part Of the swindle cases will be thorough. and will take up considerable time, indicating also that the grand jury win hardly be able to get on any other subject at least during the pres ent week.
 Logan Billingsley, who became in- terested in the gambling business here for a short time just before the closing of the games, arrived yes terday. Billingsley had been here not long ago and twenty cases of gaming were filed against him here but they were never tried in the courts. It was intimated at the time that Billingsley might know something of the swindle cases, and yesterday 1t was stated frankly that he was witness for Fox, having been recalled here on other cases, and on his arrival having been sum money to appear before the grand jury and testify to anything he knew concerning the swindle operations.
 Billingsley tells an interesting story of the shipment" of a roulette wheel that was not shipped. He stated that there are builders of a small roulette wheel which Is port able, and designed especially where raids are likely to be conducted. be- cause it can be picked up handily and taken out of a room.
 When the raids began here Bill kingsley Is reported to have tele- graphed immediately for one of these small portable roulette wheels, and to have had it here few days, when gambling finally closed. He ordered the wheel put in the crate and ship ped to Oklahoma, and paid the ex- press on it. and lately, on opening the box there. found that instead of the wheel being in the box, he had paid the freight on q number Of brick-bats which were carefully pack | ed in the box.
 l Fox made the statement that tho 1@. l. ia