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Show MAYBRAY MAY PLEAD GUILTY TO CHARGES COUNCIL BLUFFS, la.. March S. James C. Maybray and thirteen other persons under federal Indictment, charged with ,tho wholesale llceclng of victims from all over the country by means of "fixed" races, will bo brought before Judge Smith McPherson In the United States circuit court, for trial tomorrow morning. Tonight It Is said Murphy may plead guilty. Accused with Maybray aro more tha.ii eighty other defendants, about one-third of whom have been arrested. Several of the defendants, it is said, are prepared to turn state's evidence, and the tactics of the defense may be changed to meet the new developments. Estimates of the money lost by the victims vic-tims of the swindles exceed $100,000. |