New-York tribune., 1921-03-27
Carl Zork, Waist Manufac-
turer, and Ben Frank
lin Accused as Origi-
nators of Baseball Plot
l6 Others Named:
Bail $4,000 Each
List Includes All Those
Previously Held; Extra.
diiion Will Be Sought
Special Dispatch to The Tribu3,

Special Dispatch to The Tribune
CHICAGO, March Rehabilitation
among the seven White Sox players
whose cases were dropped last week
was cut short to-day, when the Cook
County Grand Jury returned new IN
dictments against them and named
eleven others N true bills charging a
conspiracy 20 throw" the 1919 world 9
series to Cincinnati. There were 144
indictments in all returned.
Thirteen ball players and alleged
gamblers were named in the original
batch of indictments. The five new
names included in the new true bills
are Carl Zork, st. Louis shirtwaist man
ufacturer; Ben Franklin, of ST. Louis,
and Ben and Louis Levi and David zes-
ler, all of Des Moines, Iowa.
Zork and franklin are said to have
conceived the idea Of fixing the
games. while the Levi brothers and
their brother-n-la Zesler, are said
to have financed the deal. One of the
Levi brothers is alleged to have won
$4,000.
The new bills contain eight counts
each. They were based on the infor-
nation presented to the grand jury
after States Attorney Grove had failed
to obtain six months postponement of
the trial of the thirteen men indicted
last summer.
Confidence Game Charged
Among the new indictments are two
charging all eighteen of the defendants
with conspiracy to obtain $3.50 by a
confidence game from Charles K Minis
and $500 from Samuel Pass. Pass has
long been known as an ardent White
SoX fan. There is also a new count
according to Assistant States Attorney
George German, which charges those
indicted with conspiracy to. cheat tbs
honest players Of the White Sox team
out Of approximately $1,000 each
These players would have won this
much had the Sox captured the series
The thirteen men indicted for the
second time are Eddie Cicotte, Claude
("Lefty") Williams, Joe jackson, Fred
McMullin. "Buck" Weaver Oscar
o"Happy') Felsch and "swede" Ris-
berg, the seven former White Sox play
ers whose cases were dropped by the
prosecutor last week, and "Chick" GAR
dill, formerly of the White SoX; Hal
Chase, Joseph ]. Sullivan, Rachel
Brown, Abe Attetll and William Burns,
all Of whom are still under indictment
by the grand jury which made the
original inquiry
Indictment was fixed at $4,000 As
there are eight coants this will make
total OF $4,000 for each defendant
and as the property scheduled for the
bond must be double the amount Of the
bonds this will mean that each of the
players will have to schedule S48 900
to be released.
Action Pieases Landis
When Judge Lands, chairman of the
National Baseball Commi ssion, was ap-
pfised of the new indictments, he said:
This is highly gratifying. This is
Just what should have been done"
The reindictment OF the men involved
in the scandal was not unexpected
When he had the seven cases nolle
pressed last week States Attorney
GROVE made 1T PLAIN tnat ne had not
dropped the matter. He declared he
had nolled the cases because Judge
Dever would not grant the six months
continuance which had been asked for
1--WE are going out to get these men
right away" said Assistant States Al
torney George Z. German. "If neces-
sary we shall extradite them, bring
them into the Cook County Criminal
Court and make them furnish the
requisite bond before they are released
"The action of the grand jury is an
effective answer to the critics who de-
clared that the States Attorneys Of
flee was preparing to drop the baseball
prosecution. We shall not be able tc
carry the cases to trial at once owing
to the reputation of confessions by
three of the defendants, but we expect
to be prepared to obtain convictions by
the end of the forthcoming baseball
season."
Act to Forestall Immunity
The States Attorneys office was said
to have brought about the indictments
at this time because the cases might
have been affected by the statute OF
limitations. which renders the law in.
operative eighteen months after the
commission OF the cffense unless an in
dictment is returned.
The invests cation which brought to
days indictments lasted little more
than week. Ban Johnson. president
of the American League, was the only
witness, although the records of the
first jury were read to the present