The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-07-20
EACH PUPIL, $50 ICURLEY is GUILTY
This Was Cost to Topeka for Custer
1915-16 Education. Want Lawyer Today.
Report Shows Army May
$4,000 Expense. to Eighteen Years.
HIGH SCHOOL MOST COSTLY HIS ADMIRERS WERE IN COURT
Saving in Grades Kept Down But Offer
Operating Demands Evidence Against Him.
And-Listen, KidS-Ony 800 Ben Will
Cases of Hockey in Year. Leayenworth Jail.
Custer "Scout'' Didn't Eyel
Want Lawyer Today.
Sentence May Be From Three
to Eighteen Years.
HIS ADMIRERS WERE IN COURT
But They We're There to Offer
Evidence Against Him.
Ben Mcintosh Will Be Taken to
Leavenworth Jail.

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The activities of Ben Mcintosh, alias
Curley the Crow, are over for the
present. For a period of five or ten
years he may sit in a cell at the federal
penitentiary and cogitate and smile
He can cogitate over the events of a
remarkable life. He can smile over
the show he put on in Topeka for a
the anxiety of normally leyel-headed
people to contribute to his bank roll.
Curley pleaded guilty before United
States Commissioner Frank Campbell,
He pleaded guilty TO the charge of
representing himself to be in the en-
ploy of the government and obtaining
money while his victims were under
that delusion. His case must go be-
fore the grand jury in October but
that will be a mere formality. He
will then be sentenced. 1t all de-
ponds upon Fred Robertson, United
States district attorney, how much
| of a term he gets. The offense is pun
ishable by three-year-term. The
department may charge one or half
a dozen counts. Curley may get from
three to eighteen years.
I'm Guilty, All Right"
! Mcintosh was taken to the federal
building today by ]. NJ. Myers, deputy
United States marshal He had no at
| torney and Attorney Robertson noticed
| that
II note" he said, that Mr.. Mcin-
tosh has no attorney. Perhaps one
should be appointed for him.
NO. said Curley. I'm guilty all
right. and 1 don't want to pile up any
more COSTS
Then he asked that the charge be
read to him. 1t was read by Commits
sioner Campbell and Curley entered
a formal plea of guilty. That was all.
| Only half dozen persons were pres
ent. Two of these were among Cur
ley's most ardent admirers when he
was leading parades and meetings.
But today they were on hand to offer
anything required of them against
| Clusters Scout"
| Will Go to Jail.
Curley will be removed at once to
the cCiIrty Jail of Leavenworth county
in order to be on hand when the grand
jury cOnVeEeS October 2. He will be
missed at the Shawnee county JAIL
where he has served as minister to
| some ana as a source or entertainment
to others.
| 1t was not brought out al the hear
! ing how much money Curley actually
took out of Topeka. Trace has been
secured of numerous land contracts
lie disposed of at s32 EACH John w.
| Fisher was one of the losers but he
was one of the few willing to expose
| justice.
IT signed up with Curley and he got
my money not an hour before the
State Journal printed the telegram
que declaring he was a fraud said
Mr.. Fisher today THE man was still
in town when the Topeka police got
that telegram and 1 tried to find him.
But he left town on the Santa Fe that
evening. 1 learned that later
Flowers Every Morning.
| A Topeka woman, and the federal
officers have her name, arranged to
have bouquet of flowers ready for
delivery to Curley at the Throop hotel
every morning while he was here. Mr..
Fisher assumes part of the blame for
that and says he stood part of the
expense. Curley had told him his
| daughter, graduate of Carlisle, was
coming to visit him here and the flow
ers were sent, 1t Is said now, in order
that there might be some on hand no
matter when the daughter arrived. She
never came.
In tracing Curley's history federal
officers have found a lot of interesting
facts One thing they have discovered
and that is that Curley is no ordinary
man; that he has exceptional ability
and has long been able to convince
newly formed acquaintances of the
| most unlikely things
Once Curley got into similar trouble
in Illinois and st. Louis man came
to his rescue. Curley told the man
he was employed by the government
at a salary of $4,000 a year, furnished
| a six-cylinder car, home on a battle
field and given six-months vacation
| every year to enlighten the public
about Clusters last fight.
/ He Believed the Story.
The man believed every word of the
story. Curley invited him to accom-
pany him to the reservation in Mon
tana where he lived on the battle
field" He proposed to show the St
Louis man how he could make a for
tune. The man paid all of Curley's
debts and got him out of trouble. He
bought two tickets to the reservation,
paid the sleeping car fare, bought the
meals and cigars. At Edgemont, S.
Oak, Curley borrowed a dollar and
left the train to get a bottle of some
cooling drink for the pair. While he
was gone the train pulled out and
when the St Louis man reached the
reservation all he could do was to
wait for Curley. Curley never did go
back to the reservation.
Once at Corvallis. Oregon, Curley
made a deep impression upon a lady.
the government papers show, boarded
| with her for a time, borrowed money
of her of her own son and of her
grandmother. then left without paying
his board bill.
Instances of this character without
number are recited in the records the
officials have secured, buzz to them
all such matters are ancient history.
They are concerned only in his gra nd
entry into Topeka and in succeeding
| events
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