The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1915-07-09

ogSeh NV 0No offS ttaS SNSff
a resident Of Vivian township,
Waseea county, about all his life.
u In understood that he denies
the alleged fake rae part Of the
tale. Mr.. 6eyers Is we'll known at
Minnesota Lake. He Is a weli-to-
do farmer and 10 held In high re-
speet by his friends and aequaint-
ances.
Charged with attempting to swindl,
william Beyers, a Minnesota Lake
farmer, Of $1,000 on u fake horse race
John l.. Lane and William Sherman
arrested I'm Chicago yesterday, will bt
brought here to answer trial. One
other man and one m are being
sought. says The Minneapolis Tribune
Late In May. Sherman. II is said
went DO Beyers and offered To buy his
farm. They failed To agree ON n price
and Sherman was there three days
He returned here and on June . again
went 20 the farm and this time was
accompanied by Lane. After decker
ing for three days Sherman agreed to
pay Sl55. but TO consummate the deal
BeyeIs was told To come tn Mime
1bOllS, WHtTt hTS. SHti lIdu "dSs VII
arriving here they learned Mrs. Sher-
man WAS at Lake Minnetonka recu-
perating from an illness. To get her
signature, Beyers says. the three men
went To Minnetonka In an auto. Mrs
Sherman was too III TO be seen and
the three remained there for two
days. On the second day, June 10,
Sherman met a friend. George Collins,
according 10 the complaint.
Has The Race Tip.
The three men were told Collins
had an inside tip on a horse race anC
could o lose. Beyers went with the
others 10 a large downtown hotel. he
alleges. There were telephone booths
stock tickers. big b~lackboards on
which bulletins were being pasted. q
dozen noisy telegraph instruments,
and as many operators sending mes
sages. IL Is asserted.
That afternoon. Beyers says. he wOr
$1,000. That night they went tn Min
netonka again. There Beyers tele-
phoned w. II. Wilson. president of the
Farmers National bank 1t Minnesota
Like. asking -Jr a cashiers CaecR fOI
s.. 900. another hitch having developed
in the land deal. The check was
mailed special delivery and arrived
June IL. The land sale had not been
completed SO after the check was re-
Ceived the three men went To st. Paul
Later IL was decided to go 10 Eau
Claire.
Fears For Husband.
Mrs. Beyers had not heard from her
husband and conflded her fears th@
he might have net with some acct
dent t. Albert Gerlich, a friend an
former deputy sheriff. They came to
Minneapolis.
On June Il when Wilson received
the s $1,000 check from the First Ma
tlonal bank of Eau Claire. he too be-
came suspicious and t%elephoned the
Minneapolis police. Detectives Gilman
and Passolt found Mrs. Beyers and
Mr.. Gerlich and the next morning
they started for Eau Claire.
They vent to the bank and found
the three men had called at the bank
at 10 a.. m. for money. The dr'ec.
tives went to the hotel and found
Beyers but the others had gone. II
then was discovered IN" men bod ln"'
On the train which had brought the
detectives. In their haste they left
their suit cases at the hotel. Beyers
was brousht back to Minneapolis anT
supplied the police with an accurate
description OF the men. Lane and
Sherman. known also as Mcdonald
and Maxwell. were arrested on the
description.
The police are searching for Collins
and the m who posed as Mrs.
Sherman at Lake Minnetonka.
On May II Collins. s. Swanson and
Nan Clark were arrested by Charles
Brown of the Minnesota Bankers
Protective association for having
printed fake letters OF credit on an
Omaha bank. They were dismissed
In the police court. Collins Is the
man who had the inside information
on the races.
Had the check been sent back from
Minnesota Lake TO Eau Claire. ac-
cording to the way in which such
swindles are worked. Beyers would
have been given tie Sc. 200 which he
won. and then would have been told
OF another sure tip on a race, asked
tn plunge the $4,000 and would have
lost. =
The police have not found the hotel
at which Beyers and the three men
stayed while they were in Minneapo-
lie. nor have they located the clear
ing heuse where the t~elegraphs were
installed. They are certain that thu
swindle was perpetrated here.
Beyers is out only the money he
paid for his travelling and hotel ex-
penses for his friends supplied all his
other wants.
E~xtradition papers for the return
Of the two men arrested will be OBJ
tanned today.
Another Near Swindle.
That George A. Anderson, part
owner of the Lincoln hotel of Mime
apolis, was nearly swindled out of S.
900 by wiretappers In Chicago was
the story received from there yester-
day. He vas prevented from turning
over the money when a hotel clerk
told him that the man with whom he
vas supposed to be doing business
was dead. A man known as Covey is
said to have offered TO purchase Mr..
Anderson's lS0-acre farm at Kimball
Prairie at $50 an acre. The deal was
preached here at the Lincoln hotel.
Convey said he represented III. III. Rog-
Frs. a Gary. Ind. steel manufacturer.
They went 10 Gary but Mr.. Rogers
vas said TO be out of the city. The
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