The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-06
Important Criminal Cases on.
Wichita Docket Monday.
Fifteen Actions To Be Heard
Before Judge Pollock.
PROF. SAMUELS SENTENCED
Famous "Eye Water" Doctor to
Learn Fate on IL Counts.
Strange Case of Fraudulent
Bankruptcy To Be Heard.

Four Important cases will be the
most interesting features of the Wich-
tia session of the United States dis
trict court which convenes Monday.
There are fifteen criminal and many
civil cases on the docket.
Professor H. Samuels, the famous
Wichita mail order health doctor, will
be sentenced Monday. Samuels was
convicted on eleven counts for using
the mails in furtherance of a scheme
to defraud. The maximum sentence
would be five years in the federal
prison and a fine of $1,000 for each
count.
The first important criminal case
to be tried is that of the government
against the Stockyards Cotton and
Linseed Meal company of Kansas City,
Mo. which does an extensive business
in the state, and H. B. Cherry, presi-
dent of the company. 1t is alleged
that the company solicited Santa Fe
railway agents to try and get 1nfor-
nation regarding consignments of
their customers. This is in violation
of a ruling of the interstate commerce
commission.
The second criminal case of impor-
lance will be one against a wealthy
HillsbOro, Kan, farmer, Fred Mas,
alleging subornatiOn of perjury. The
government claims that a certain j. n.
Schmidt, a neighbor of Mas, sold
his farm to the latter. Schmidt went
into bankruptcy and it is charged that
he swore in bankrupt court before
Judge Pollock that Mas had paid him
for the farm, whereby the government
says Mas did nothing of the kind.
After Schmidt was declared a bank
rupt, it is alleged, Mas paid him for
the farm. Schmidt will be a witness
for the government.
Lon F. Butts will be tried for black
mail. Butts is charged with sending
a Shields, Kan, farmer, George Up
pendahl, letter demanding that he
bring certain sum of money at
named road in a road near Shields and
threatened all kinds of punishment for
him if he did not obey the request.
Butts was traced over the country and
arrested at Portland, Ore. He is in
the county Jail in Topeka now and
will be taken to Wichita to face the al
legation next week.
One E. NJ. Wilson of Fayetteville.
Pa, is alleged to have opened a letter
not belonging to him and cashing a
money order for $3.50. At Fort
Dodge, Kan, resided old soldier.
E. NJ. Wilson, the same identical
name that the wanderer from Penn
sylvania possessed. A nephew of the
old soldier. Joe Dunlap, of Nevada,
birthday present. E. NJ. Wilson, No.
2 was in Dodge at the time and is
alleged to have received the letter by
mistake and caShed the order. Dun
lap heard later that the old man did
not receive the present and an investi-
cation began. Wilson was traced to
Fayetteville because of a forwarding
address left at the postoffice at Buck
lin, Kan. Postoffice Inspector John
S. Brough of Newton arrested him.
Wilson, No. l. died recently and the
case will go on without his testimony
Fred Robertson, United States dis
trict attorney; his assistant, Francis
NJ. Brady; Morton Albaugh, clerk Of
the federal court and Frank Camp
bell, United States commissioner, will
leave Topeka for Wichita Sunday.