Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-12-16
RESIDENT OF ROLFE CREDITED
WITH REVEALING WILD,
HORSE SWiNpLE.
CLAIMS $4,000 LOST
THRU SALES AND TRADES
Many Iowans, Including Bankers and
Professional Men, erty.
Two Persons Under Indictment and
Eleven Now on Trial in Federal
Court at Omaha.

Fort Dodge, Dec. ia. Z. Everett
of Rolfe. who claims the credit for
causing the arrest Of forty-two men
charged with selling wild horses they
did not own, is in the city today Mr..
Everett has just returned from Omaha
where he testified i'll federal court
where eleven Of the forty-two men are
BENG tried.
MT. Everett declares that postal in
spectors already have uncovered losses
aggregating $4,000 resulting to men
who took bills of sale for wild horses
near Flagstaff, Ariz. The trials are
still on in Omaha.
Answered Advertisement.
Mr.. Everett declared he saw a
blind" advertisement in Des Mo!nes
paper and answered it. Correspond
ence lasting six months or more was
kept UP between himself and \. -
Perry. of Atkinson, Neb. Perry, Ever
EFT declared today. has pleaded guilty
10 a charge of using the mails 70 de-
fraud.
This correspondence. Mr. Everett
SAYS, convinced him that the Scheme
was a swindle He said he took the
matter to George Bassett, of this CITY,
then a postal inspector. and that Mr.
Bassett took the matter up with the
postal authorities in Omaha MI. EN-
erett says he was TO trade one-hall
section of Kansas land owned by
client for 100 head of wild horses in
Arizona
The Relfe man said he made TWO
trips to Omaha and met J. S. and
CLYDE A. Smith. said to be- at the nead
of the United States Live Stock Com
pany he kept the deal alive in Harl-
Gus ways until the federal authorities
were ready to make arrests. On one
trip to Omaha. the arrests were made,
Mr.. Everett said. The Rolfe man de-
clared that the federal authorities are
irving to take all Of the credit for
working up the case when he himself
really furnished a great part of the evil
dence.
Mr.. Everett declared that the sup
posed florsemen rendered a bill Of sale
in exchange for deed TO the land.
The Iowan wanted the horses, how
ever. and the deal did not go thru. He
claims that if all of the other alleged
victims Of the game had demanded the
sale, that they would not have lost
their money. The purchasers OF the
horses according TO testimony at Oma-
ha, tried to catch their animals. but
the horses were too wild.
Many Pathetic Cases.
Testimony has brought to light many
pathetic cases of alleged victims. One
rlrr~ man testified he lost his home
wh., il he traded for some horses.
An amusing incident in the trial. as
related by Mr.. Everett. was the reply
that an attorney got when, somewhat
angry, he cautioned refractory
witness to hold your horses"
Il have no horses to hold. replied
the witness who had testified he had
transferred several thousand dollars
worth Of property without getting any
horses.
Case Proves Costly.
The costs in the case. il is figured.
will De between $4,000 and $4,000.
Nine county officials from Flagstaff
have been taken to Omaha TO testify as
10 the number of bills Of sale fled
there. More than siXty-n1ne witnesses
for the government and fifty for the
defense have been subpoenaed.
Mr.. Everett declared that bankers.
eminent business men and professional
men have lost their money in the
scheme. rs declared that ss"o-a! sup
posedly shrewd business men in Oma-
ha had lost a lot Of money.