The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-22
PRISONERS SW|NDLERS WANTED
 BY ATLANTA POLICE
Said to Have Robbed Georgians of $1,OOO,0 Northern Alabama District Court to
 Try Cases In May

The four men held in Cincinnati and Indianapolis in connection with an attempt of alleged swindlers at Huntsville to fleece Marshall Hinch- man of Glendale, Ind, out of $25,O0O, will be brought back to Alabama for trial. Preliminary hearing for the men has been set for May 9 before Kenneth Charlton, United States com missioner.
 Warrants for the men were sworn out yesterday. They are charged with using the mails to defraud and oon- spiracy to use the mails for fraudu- lent purposes. Bond for them was fixed at $5,00O in each case.
 According to Ralph Quinn, assistant United States attorney these men, to- gether with A. J. Conway, who is now in the Jefferson. county jail, will eith- CT be tried in Birmingham or in Hunts vile for indictments against them will be sought before the grand jury in the nor thern district of Alabama.
 PRELIMINARY HEARING
 It is stated if the men in Indian ar olis and Cincinnati waive prelimi- nary hearing before the United States commissioners at those places, they will be immediately brought to Bir mir gham.a In case the men fight re- turn to Alabama by insisting upon preliminary hearings, the district at torney's office will request an order from the federal judges of those dis tricts for the removal of the men upon the evidence submitted at the prelimi- nary hearings in Ohio and Indiana.
 The first preliminary steps towards rem owing the defendants to this dis trict were made yesterday by the swearing out of warrants and certifi- cation of them to the other federal districts.
 A. J. Conway was arrested in Hunts vile and transferred to Birmingham and simultaneously post office inspec- tors caused the arrests of George Lloyd, alias G. w. Overton, in IDdian> | arois, and J. J. Huntingdon, alias "Hooser Kid;" James G. Crawford, alias Blair, and Cramer, alias John Hayes
 | II is stated that while these men are charged with using the mails to de- fraud, according to the evidences woi ked up against them by post office inspectors, the men are alleged to have been connected with an alleged wire tapping fraud perpetrated in Atlanta some months ago. whereby 1t is stated that more than $1,O00,000 was de- | frauded from citizens of that city by fake stock transactions.
 HINGES ON HINCHMAN | In so far as Alabama is concerned, the case against the men hinges on the alleged attempt to defraud Mar shall Hinchman, a well-to-do retired farmer. He was spending some time 1 in Hot Springs, where he met and be- came the friend of man who induced him to go to Huntsville to act as an expert in some land deal The men claimed they were going to buy. There he was inveigled into a stock scfeme through which he was to make | a fortune.
 | MT. Hinchman and One of the men are said to have come to Birmin gham to sell $20,00o worth of Liberty bonds. Being unable to Identify himself, he left Huntsville for his home to secure the money, and was to meet the men in Cincinnati, where the deal was to culminate. This was prevented by the arrest of the men. The mails were used in an effort to ascertain the iden- l tity of Mir Hinchman, in order to cash a check drawn by him on a Glendale bank for s5.000.