The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-21
ACCUSE THREE MEN
 OF USING MAILS ID ]. PERPETRATE FRAUD
Post Office Inspectors Say They Have Broken Up Group They Had Been Trailing
 for Months

j. A. J. Conway was placed in the Jef- ferson county jail yesterday in default of $10,000 bond on charge of using the mails to defraud.
 With the arrest of Conway and the apprehension of two other white men in Cincinnati, post office inspectors who brought Conway to Birmingham from Huntsville, where he was arrest cd believe nationwide gang of con- fidence men has been broken up. The arrest of a fourth is expected any time.
 It is stated that the alleged opera tions of Conway and the other three men were traced from Little Rock ana Hot Springs to Birmingham and thence to Cincinnati Plans had been laid in the Ohio city for the final issue ob- taining s50,000 from Marshal Hinch- man, wealthy resident of Glendale, Ind, according to post office inspec- tors. MT. Hinchrnan had been lured to Alabama, they state, witRs promises of a big fee for acting as an expert in the valuation of large tract of land
  tended to buy.
 AFFABLE STRANGER
 According to the inspectors, Mir. Hinchman and his wife were spending some time in Hot Springs. They were approa ched by an affable man, and Ae and Binchman soon became friends. Through this man MT. Hinchman was induced to come to Huntsville to act as a land expert. It is stated that while there other members of .he al- legged gang approached MT. Hinchman and his friend.
 The strangers then are alleged to have made a proposition to MT. Hinch- man to divide the winnings of a biz stock transaction. provided he would put up enough money to cover some che cks the strangers had given in pur- chase of the stock.
 Mir. Hinchman and one of the men are said to have come to Birmingham last Saturday in an effort to dispose Of ,000 worth of Liberty bonds be- longing to the Indiana man. Being unable to identify himself he was un- able to sell the bonds, and the two men returned to Huntsville, where it is stated a check for $5000 was drawn by MT. Hinchman, on Glendale bank and turr~d over to Conway. Efforts to cash the eheck in Huntsville led to the use of the mails, 1t is stated, as letters were written to the Glendale | bank concerning the Identification of | the check.
 However, two of the alleged confi- dence men left Huntsville before the check was cashed, going to Cincinnati, one went to Louisville and Conway | rem aimed in Huntsville.
 THE PLAN
 The plan, it is stated, was for MT. Hinchman to return to his home in Glendale and get the money to pay for the stock transactions and to meet the men in Cincinnati, when half of the profits were to be divided with him. Post office inspectors had been on | the trail of the gang for other trans~ actions, it was stated. when they ran into the Alabama deal When Conway was arrested in Huntsville, just be- fore the alleged fraud had been com- pleted. officers state that the $5,000 check of MT. Hinchman was found in his possession.
 The two men who went to Cincinnati were arrested while waiting for Mir according to information received here, and the fourth man is exrected to be arrested today
 This case was worked up by J. w. Cole, chief inspector for the Chatta- nooga- Birmingham postal division; B. F. Dilts. inspector at Nashville and H. N. Graham, inspector in Atlanta.