Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-25
IOWA GIRLS WHO ASSISTED IN
Fleeing ZIMMERMAN. OF cE.
OAR RAPIDS. AGAIN INVOLVED.
co-oPERATEp WITH TWO
MEN IN LOS ANGELES
Robert Garrick Names Peggy Reed and
Doris Byrne in Another Alleged
SwindIe-Arrest Of Principals in
Chicago Indicates Junkerman's
Lures Were Not lnnocents.

Chicago. Oct. 225.-Peggy Reed and
Doris Byrne. the two Cedar Rapids
girls who cost Franklin Junkerman, OF
Cedar Rapids, 5000, cooperated
with Harold W. Jirka ana Robert II.
Garrlck in separating Frederick A.
Stock of San Diego from $4,000 in Los
Angeles last August, according 10
statements made by Garrick himself in
San Francisco before his indictment on
charges Of impersonating federal Sc
cret service agent. Jirka, an attorney.
was arrested IN Chicago on Monday on
the charge of consp!rins with Garrick
in the representation.
Garr.ck's statement gives the gov
eminent a new angle for investigation.
According to the charges against Gar
rick and Jirla in the indictment Just
voted. the TWO learned that Stock was
representing the British government as
a buyer Of horses for the allies.
Jirka and Garrick are said to have
told the broker that Garrick was fed
eral officer-and unless he gave them
Sl,0S0 they would cause his arrest on
the allegation that he had violated
American neutrality and have him Ia
ken to Chicago. Stock was frightened,
II Is said, so that he gave them $50 in
cash and an assignment OF his COM
mission as the representative OF Great
Britain in his purchase Of horses.
New Evidence Obtained.
New evidence TO show that Garrick
and Jirka posed as government agents
in San Diego has been obtained, &C
cording 20 government agents in Los
Angeles today, Both men were in
diCted by the federal grand jury for
alleged representation Of government
officials It was said by Deputy Unit
ed States District Attorney Moody here
that the men claimed to be govern
ment agents TO William z. Ginder OF
San Diego. former attorney for the eS-
position there.
Government officials allege the men
were alleged members of the Chicago
"blachmail ring, and that they have
been operating in Los Angeles and
southern California cities. The spe-
cifc charge against them is that they
attempted to blackInail Stock ont OF
s1,0S0 by threatening his arrest.
In Dunkerman Case.
Garrick went further, according TO
telegram received yesterday from San
Francisco. He said ne was present in
the girls Clarendon avenue apartment
when Junkerman was caught there
and settled for $4,000. This settle
ment", which Jirka has always defend
ed as entirely ethical, was investigated
by federal agents. The federal au
thorities have not yet decided the
question Of jurisdiction.
Garrick's arrest in California was
brought about by the English girl hs
married in London last March. She
told the San Francisco police she
turned over to him $4,000. After the
marriage. she said he took her to Chi
cago, where he abandoned her to take
the western trip with Jirka and the
two girls. Garrick was arrested near
Los Angeles at Ocean park, where the
men and the two girls are said to
have lived. Garick claimed to be the
son Of a wealthy manufacturer near
Chicago.
The two girls are now back in Cedar
Rapids. Jrka was released yesterday