Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-05-16

Waterloo, May -Walingford in
scheme that got the money so easily
and in such quantities - that devised
| in syria and that is being carried out
by 300 Assyrign fakirs in this coun-
try, according to James T. II. Nash,
inspector of the immigration service in
the ST. Louis district, whC came today
10 take charge of George Ella.
Nash was greatly disappointed to
find the police had released Ella on
orders from the latter's attorney.
A bishop that is in on the aeal over
In Syria issues the "appeals' in blank
ct form by the wholesale, ii is SAID.
These appeals contain the bishopric
seal Into the blank spaces may be
filed in the most tear starting tales
Of cruelty by me Turks and dollar
pulling appeals for funds from the
sympathetic Americans.
These Assyrian faki"s come over
with only lew dollars and return i'll
a few years with $4,000 or $4,000,
enough to enable them 10 live as prin-
Ces the balance of their lives said Mr..
Nash today. Ten thousand dollars in
Syria will so as far as a million IN
America
Want George Badly.
Mr.. Nash expressed regret that Ella
was discharged from the city Jail. He
stated that he had wired the st. Louis
office, but assurance was given by j.
r, Dunn, inspector in charge, that Miss
oh, snf tinn hna nd
of censors, who caused Elias arrest
as an impostor was handling the mat
ter satisfactorily.
Miss Palmer stated today she
showed the police the telegram from
the immigration bureau, asking that
Ella be held.
Father Was Deported.
Mr.. Nash states that Elias father
was deported in 1914 for neing an i'm
poster and an undesirable citizen.
| The immigration bureau supposed that
the father hal never returned, ana
Mr.. Nash heard for the first time from
Miss Palmer that George Ella had said
his father died last fall in Nashville,
! Tenn. He had come back thru Uncle
Sans back door, Mexico.
Twenty-Five Are in Jail.
| Mr.. Nash says the immigration
bureau has apprehended rs of these
| Assyrian fakirs and is after the others
1t wants Ella and the friend, E. David,
who came here to effect his pals re-
lease. Mr.. Nash had David's picture
and was anxious to get on his trail.
He also has picture OF stephen
Alexander. another fakir, who was
supposed to be working in Iowa with
Ella. Ella had made collections or
funds from a dozen Iowa cities ana
from towns in Illinois and Minne-
| sofa.
Biggest Fakir Of All.
Mr.. Nash says Rev. John Daniel the
man that Ella said he gave 5000 to
take over to relieve the distress of his
fellow natives, is now in Jail. He is
accused Of having collected $4,000 on
representations that it was for the
Red Cross.
Ella said the reason he was out here
| in Iowa soliciting funds was to get
money with which to make up the
$500 that he gave Daniel.
1t is reported that this new method
of extracting the dollars from SYM
pathetic people is the result Of regular
schooling and methods of training
adopted by the ringleaders over in
| Syria.
| The appeal Ella has narrates the
| terrible story that Assyrian parents
were obliged, in their dire necessity
and starved condition, to sell the
younger children for a mere pittance,
50 that the older children might be
kept alive. This plea would extract
dollars from the most misery man.