The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1915-10-08
DIR. ]. S. Lehr Attaches Win.
ner Of 81, 900 Pace on SIS
Doctor Bill.
H00SIER BOY SETS
:: NEW TRACK RECORD
Cuts Time on Mile From 2.I6 10
2;l5 l-4-Complete Race
;:.$.--.:,. Summary.


sworn ont fate'l last night by DR.. j. s.
Lfhs,J a; veterinarian, against Edward
White, of COffeen, H., to hold the lat
! ter's horse, Stonewall, the racer that
took high money in the $1,000 stake
/ 2:11 pace, it became known that the
\ winning horse as well as several other
4 racers had been "doped'' in an effort
/ to increase their speed.
|: The horse that had been animated
With 1.-THE. injection of medicine took
$409 clear of the $1,000 stake. Both
! White and Dr.. Lehr last night discuss
ed the doping" freely.
i The writ of attachment was issued
i by Justice Of the Peace Orren Wilson
to satisfy a debt of S25 which DR.. Lehr
FclaiRfed White owed him for making
injections into StoneWaH during the
progress of the $1,000 race.
White claims that the charge of S25
5 eXhOrbitant and horsemen last night
declared that the service performed
>ordin&rily costs but 81 or at the most
s..
Whites story is that Lehr came in
| to his stall at. the barn while the heats
Of the race were in progress and Of
fered to shoot" the dope" into Stone
wall that would re-energize the PAGER
Il asked him what it would cost"
White declared last night, "and he
said, .0h, Just what you think it ought
/ to be worth. A dollar or So
I White said he allowed the doctor to
make The injections and after winning
the race, he told him he could pay
/ him only after be had received his
money at the bank.
/ White then said Lehr approached
I him and said the charge would be S25 !
for the services performed. He object
ed to paying that much and refused to
give the doctor the money The doctor
threatened. at that time to attach the |
PAGER, he said.
Yesterday evening at the close of !
the racing program. when the horse
men had received their money, White
said Lehr came to him at the stables
and insisted on getting the S25.
Their conversation became heated
with the. result that last night DR..
Lehr also swOre out warrant before
Judge Wilson. charging White with
assault and battery for using prOfane
language in the conversation with
him. .. %.
{: Both papers were served on White
last night by Deputy Sheriff Sea-
graves. Seagravcs took charge of the
PAGER, StonewaII, and placed White
under arrest. He was released last
night when he put up cash bond
with Seagraves for his appearance in
Judge Wilson'S court Tuesday morn
ing. The horse still is held by Sea
graves. i
White had planned to ship his race
horse to Paducah. KY, at o'clock
this morning on boat that left for
the Ohio River. He had already enter
ed the horse in d race at that place |
where fair is being conducted. j
Dr. Lehr last night declared that ]
White approached him in the stable I
as the race. heats were being run
while the. doctor said he was working
on Birdie Gray, White asked him to p
work with his horse. n
White promised to give him $25 if I
he brought the horse out Il winner, the
doctor declared. and that was the I'M "
ne said, under which he o
worked.
DR.. Lchr said he even gave White
some directions as. to how to drive
in order to win the $1,000
face . -..'.5 p
after the race was over and White
sa,f received his n6nye,' the doctor
continued she waiftejt to give me a
loirar fof my, work? He tried to get
nut of to@Tfs6n me without paying me :,
at all, and told him I would "
ret him into a mess. if he kept on" =
AT the time that Lehr met White at $
he stables. last; night and they had :"
h9iY conversation out of, which grew
he doctors charge for assault, DIR. pa
,ehr said he knocked White down. N
He declared he was paid SO and SIS M
ar treating" other horses that -. 10
nd that he'was7 going to insist ON the mi
p from White. a.. ---. sd
e The, race program. yesterday closed re'
it'll recprdrin the 2;l7 pace smashed
9r, the Fairgrounds track.
The record for the 2:17 pace on the ye'
fairgrounds track formerly was ter
:16 made when the track was in the pu
Iost brilliant shape it ever has been Re
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