, 1922-08-25

uAltS VI lIG OASIAASI oetcAh~f -
today completed the roundup
legged to have conducted conf
FLORIDA. Cuba and other tourist cen
tiers.
philip Van Cise. district attorney,
announced information that led TO the
arrest OF the gang was supplied by
J Frank Norfest OF Hal C4nteT. Tex
as. who had been picked as n victim.
Norfleet. according TO Van else is the
man who unmarked the operations OF
the so-oalled ice Furey' gang OF
confidence mon.
They picked the wrong bird for a
pluoking when they picked Norfleet'
declared Van else. They tried 10
work a $4,000 sW!ndle on the man
who caught Joe Furey.'
Under n technical charge Of conspir-
acy TO defraud the prisoners, ranging
in ages from 20 TO rs years are &C
cused by the authorities Of having
feeced persons throughout the United
States Of sums aEEregating 81 300. 600,
The officers in their raid seized So
600 in cash, weapons of all kinds. tele-
graph apparatus and h parapher'
MALTA Of a stock exchanges, by means Of
which District Attorney Philip Van
else charges the alleged ring relieved
patrons Of summer resorts OF their
money in sums ranging from 500 TO
$1,000.
Confederates of those VIII operated
here. Attorney Van Cise alleges fleeced
a Texan OF $4,000 four years ago.
Victims are said TO have been solicit
81 in hotels. bathing beaches and
amusement parks particularly in Colo
rado, Florida and Cuba TO play the
market on grains. oil stocks and bonds.
being permitted to win their initial
sp~eculations and then being defrauded
out OF heavier amounts subsequently.
tn, raid followed investigation OF
more than a year in which authorities
in other cities aided, Denver police
stated.
Later the confidence ring suspects
were taken 10 Brighton and Golden.
Colo, jails TO prevent their communi'
cation with inmates Of the Denver
jails.
Lou Rlonger, rs, OF Denver, was
said by Attorney Van Cice 10 have
been the president" OF the alleged
bogus stock exchange operatorH.
Among those arrested in addition
WITH DlgIlBEI dIt = r. . aAAA
who is said by the police to be free
under bonds following arrest in Texas
on charge of check frauds t~otaling
s2s 900: ]. r. Farrell, alleged TO be
wanted by the Los Angeles police.
Riley w. Wilson. st. Louis; Arthur
Cooper. said to be a hotel clerk in
Little Rock. Ark; James Richard Sui
Ivan, santa Monica, Cal; A. w. Duff
said to be n life member OF the Den.
yer Motor club, and Thomas Beach
expert golfer OF Denver.
The examination of the prisoners
made an extraordinary picture-a
scene unlike anything that has ever
taken place in n pastors study before
The prisoners, sullen defiant, OIL
laughing as they stood between theii
armed guards. glanced curiously about
the study. which was filled with to
bacoo smoke, and whose walls were
covered with tracts. bookcases and re
ligious pictures.
This is the funniest jail I evel
saw" exclaimed one man. who like
most OF the others, did not realize hi
had been brought TO a church.
Above the desk where the prisoners
ware booked hangs the first Psalm
printed in huge red ana black letters
Many OF tho prisoners stared long a
the Scripture passages, which begin
Blessed Is the man that walketi
not In the counsel Of the unsodly MOI
.tapdeth In the way Of sinners mo-
stitch in the neat OF the scornful.
But his delight Is in h law II III,
Lord. and in His law doth he meal
tate day and night.
For the Lord knoweth the way .
the righteous: but the way OF the un
eodfy shall perish"
From the pastors study the pris
oner, were taken upstairs TO the Kin
dcrgar,en Sunday school rooms on tn
recond floor. There, amid tiny re-
chairs. blaclsboards, a sand pile An
mcttoes letter ed by .he smallest Of tn
sunday school children they wer
submitted TO a searching examination
~ Van else. There. also, Roy Sam
scr. special investigator for the dis
trlct attorneys office. compared IN
orisoners with rogue's gallery photo
graphs from the United States pen
:sntiary at LaAvenworth n pthe
places.
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