Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-07-02

the liz was up and most of them had
disappeared. Gradually they are being
rounded up and brought back to Atlans
ia. Abe PoWe Z and eight of his CON
freres have been sent to the %penltenti-
airy, but earelessness at the prison farm
was utilized by Abe Powers and he Is
at large again. Many others are under
arrest and some have given bond,
Among those indicted and soon to stand
trial will be Ira Fort, who was mixed
up, 1t is said in the Madeira swindle.
A feature Of this prosecution IS found
In the fact that the solicitor himself
has offered big rewards for the cap
ture of the various con men, and
) paid some of them.
The search continues the country
over for Floyd r. Woodward. He is
held up as the Master Mind" of the
gang. Since his escape he has written
a letter back TO Atlanta in which he
charges that he had paid out $1,000
as n brihe at one time to Solicitor
Boykin; had paid large sums at other
times, a cut in of his receipts to
| Josepli Ewing. a lawyer formerly "on
nected with Boykin's office before he
became solicitor, and who, according
TO Woodward was the go-between for
Boykin.
These charges by WoodN ard, the iaii
fellow, who was friendly with every
body in town, went hunting with Chief
Poole, gave diamond rings and phxlno-
graphs to councilmel and dispensed
money with a liberal hand, have given
the police a club 70 hit Boykin. So
they charge that Boykin knew as much
of the operations Of the gang MS they
did, or more.
One feature Of the investigation has
been the charge made by Joe Ewing,
lawyer, that Councilman Al Martln and
Floyd p. Woodward ran enc of the
"dens' together; Martin fer whiskey
and Woodward for gaming; and that
ut this place hundreds OF gallons of
liquor had been Delivered by a young
man now in Birmingham. Another
allegation was that Aidine Chambers,
who led the campaign i'm Georgia for
Palmer when he was seeking the presi-
dental nomination, had worked to re-
cruit the gang by getting men ont Of
the federal penitentiary for this
purpose.
Texas Victim Gets Angry.
There is the case of young Mr.. Man
ming Of Texas, who started out In his
testimony before the committee very
bravely, but wilted toward the end
under a rapid fire cr0ss-examlnation.
Manning had told his story. He had
asserted that Chief of Detect, as
Lamar Poole and Lieut.. Shaw mad
permitted swindle operators to escape
after he had furnished information
that should have resulted in their cap
ture.
Then he was confronted suddenly
with a letter signed w. II. Manning,
In which an offer was made to drop
all prosecution of the swindlers con
cerned provided that they would re-
turn his money. He vehemently de-
MED that he had written it. branding
1t a forgery.
During this cross-examination he re-.
p~eatedly contradlcted himself; lost all
MS sang-froid. became angry and
offered to make it a personal matter
with n of the lawyers for the
defense.
He told the committee that he missed
MS train n Atlanta and that as his
wire was visiting her people and there
was no room for him there he decided
he might MS well remain in Atlanta
lie declared he had been picked ND at
inc Union station by bunro steerers
VINO had conducted him to the Ansley
hotei' n how they had become very
warm friends. This steerer, he said,
was clyde Smith, who said he was n
representative of the Harry Payne
Whitney company.
I'm his story Il fake telegram from
Harry Payne Whitney of New York
was described. According to his narra
i've the gang had two exchanges. One
was NO. z In n downtown spot. and the
otfer was supposed TO be the Capital
club tAtIanta's swellest). But
the bunco victims were al.
ways steered TO No. 2. something al.
ways coming up to bar a trip to ex-
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