Arizona republican., 1920-10-23
AbE AT TELL AND CHASE INDICTED
 BY COOK COUNTY
 BASEBALL JURY
Indictments Against 13 Per- sons for Alleged Baseball Fixing" Returned by the Grand Jury PLAYERS SAY HAL
 CHASE INSTIGATOR
Penitentiary Looms for Players if Convicted; Prince of First Basemen In Bad Light
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CHICAGO. Oct. 22 = Indictments against 13 persons believed to have been implicated in the throwing of games in the 1919 worlds series by Chicago American league players were returned today by the special Cook county grand jury which has been in vestigating the baseball scandal for more than a month. Further indict- ments are expected when the grand jury convenes again next week, state officials declared.
 All of the indictments charge con- spiracy to commit an illegal act, a crime for which a penitentiary sen- tence can be given under the laws of Illinois.
 Indictments against 10 of the men named today previously had been voted but were re-voted to overcome legal technicalities, while the other three Abe Attell. Hal Chase and William Burns--had only been unofficially mentioned in connection with the in vestigation.
 Chase and Burns, former major league players, and Attell, once the featherweight boxing champion of the world, have been accused by witnesses of being three of the clique which "framedn the world series and ar ranged to bribe Chicago White Sox players for sums said to range from $2000s to s10,000 to try to lose games I in the contests for the worlds baseball championship.
 Fortune Wagered on Series According to testimony presented "at 1 least several hundred thousand dollars'' was bet and won on the world series. l Chase was the man to suggest throw | ing'' the series, it was said, and called | in the others to help him. Harry Long, l fN1a lao itr~x f.a afn placed $27 900 in bets on Cincinnati for Sport" Sullivan of Boston and testi- mony has been received concerning many other large bets it was said
 Besides Crane, Attell and Burns, to- days indictments covered two alleged 1 gamblers. Sullivan and a man known to the jury only as Brown" and the eight players owned by the Chicago American league club against whom true bills previously had been voted. 1 They were Joe Jackson and Oscar Felsch, outfielders: Eddie Cicotte and Claude Williams, pitchers; tSwedeH Risberg. shortstop; Chick Gandil first baseman in 1919, but who was not in the big leagues this year: Fred Me- | Mullin, utility infielder, and Buck | Weaver, third baseman. Williams, Jackson and Cicotte previously had made sworn confessions before the jury 1iOOle Sdiu Ilc was gwen SAVyNNVs NAAa.C Williams said he received $10,000 which he split with Jackson, who confirmed the statements of the two pitchers. Weaver, McAIullin and Risberg have announced that they will fight the case and contest the suspension placed on all the eight players by Ownef Charles A. Comiskey.
 Chase Dominating Figure
 Officials of the states attorneys of flee today revealed sufficient of the jury proceedings to show that testi-
 mony has been given that Chase, who was expelled from the major leagues and barred from league parks in the West for alleged gambling. was one ct
 the chief instigators of the game selling.
 The jury was said to have received
 more testimony concerning Chase than any of the others. President Heydler of the National league, Garry Herr mann, owner of the Cincinnati Reds,