The Washington times., 1932-10-11
CHICAGO READY
To SEND MAN
FOR|NSULL
Prosecutors Aide Due on Way
Soon as U. S. Gets Plea
To Secure Prisoner

CHlCAGO, Oct. Ii Nd. J,
States Attorney John A. Swan
son today speeded prepara'
tiOns to insure the return of
Samuel insult from Athens,
Greece, to Chicago to face
trial on charges of embezzle-
ment and larceny.
The prosecutor was reported
ready to send one Of his assistants
to the Greek capital to direct
the States efforts to have the
former utilities king deported or
eXtradited.
1t was indicated that the man
who will be sent abroad on this
mission will be Assistant State S
Attorney Charles E. Bellows, ex,
tradition expert in Swanson S
office. Bellows has already been
ordered to obtain passports.
Plea to U. S. Urged
Fearing that Athens police
might release insult prematurely
Swanson sent a telegram to Act
ing Gov. Fred S. Sterling at
Springfield, saying:
please request State De-
partment to make every effort
to have Greek authorities de-
tain Samuel insult, ST., pending
arrival of messenger and
preparation of necessary papers
for extraditiOn. County board
has voted funds to defray
expenses"
The secutor, meanwhile
drove ahead in that phase of
his inquiry into the collapse of
the $4,000, 900 900 insult light and
power combine which has to do
with secret communications sent
to insult by his Chicago agents
while the depoSed utilities mag
nate was being sought by police
OF several European nations.
Secret Gables DECIDED
Four secret cablegrams were de-
coded before the county grand
jury yesterday. Swanson said
that records of the Postal Tele-
graph and Gable Company and
the American Railway Express
will be examined to determine
whether any other messages were
sent to the fugitive.
1t was indicated that, in further
ance of this investigation, George
A. Cooke, formerly co-receiver of
the bankrupt insult Utility Invest
ments Corporation, may be sum-
moned before the grand jury to-
day.
Cooke is mentioned in one of
the decoded cablegrams, which on
the day after Samuel insult and
his brother, Martin, were indicted
advised the former to flee to
Greece.
Swanson said Insults former
secretary, John O'Keefe, had testi,
fled before the grand jury that
Cooke was one of three men who
had dictated this particular mes
sage, which was addressed to
Turin, italy.
Admit Advising insult
The other two were Waldo
Tobey and Gilbert Porter, lawyers,
Swanson quoted O'Keefe as say
ing.
/. The States attorney said Tobey
and Porter, both of whom ap-
peared before the grand jury,
had admitted advising insult first
not to respond to requests for
his voluntary return from Paris
and second to go to Greece fol
lowing the indictment. The law
yerS, however, denied debating
the messages, Swanson said.
The code used in the cable
grams, a simple letter-subStituting
arrangement, as we'll as another
word code, was devised by O'Keefe
at the request of Samuel insult,
jr., just before the latter left
for Paris to join his father,
O'Keefe testified, according to
Swanson.
"See ZaharOff"
In connection with the coded
cablegrams, there arose today in
some unexplained capacity the
name of Sir Basil zaharoff, one
of the wealthiest of Europe's
capitalists, part owner of the
Casino at Monte Carlo and a
man of mystery in the political
affairs of the Continent.
The fourth message, addressed
to insult at Milano, Italy, said
Porter says although no
treaty with Greek, government
might on request surrender as
matter of policy. Suggest see
ing ZaharOff Immediately if
you think wise"