Show FAKE fAK FOOTRACE PROMOTER T TAKEN M Levy Charged With Grand Larceny on Complaint of Logan Saloonkeeper CARRIES A FLASH ROLL STORY OF GAME IN WHICH J C EDWARDS LOST M 31 Levy Lev alleged to be one of a bunco gang who worked a systematic fake foot footrace footrace footrace race game on J I Edwards a saloon keeper of or Logan swindling him out of was arrested yesterday after afternoon afternoon afternoon noon at the Combination bar In West Vest Second South street by b Detective Fred Levy Ley is charged by the complaint which was sworn to last September by Ed Edwards E Ewards Ewards wards with grand larceny A few hours hou after his arrest he was released on bail ball Levy Is said to be a cousin of Butch Cassidy the notorious and daring road agent whose record as a train robber is probably longer than that of any other western criminal Levys Levs home is is in Beaver where until recently rece he was he the proprietor of a saloon s loon When he was Brought to the police sta station station station tion by b the officer a flash roll ron was found on the prisoner This roll consisted of one or two bills wrapped around a news newspaper newspaper newspaper paper rolled up The roll had the appear appearance appearance appearance ance of being an exceptionally large amount of currency Mr Edwards the victim of the some somewhat somewhat somewhat what ancient yet et ever productive foot footrace footrace footrace race swindle says that he met Levy and anda a man who said his name was Charles Boyle Bole at Logan early in August a year ear ago Edwards is the proprietor of a sa saloon saloon saloon loon and two billiard halls and Is inter interested interested ested in several mines He is Isor or rather was prior to his ls experience considered the Logan sporting authority His version of the affair follows Two men called at his saloon and asked him to assist them in an innocent little swindle they the were about to perpetrate on the betting people of Denver The fhe men said that they were and that Levy was the faster man In Denver however Boyle Bole was the favorite Since both Boyle and Levy were the play it was a certainty that Levy would win winand winand winand and then the two would divide the money won from the Denver people What they wanted Edwards to do was to bet their money for them and for so doing he would receive 20 0 per cent of the winnings Edwards Is Hooked After the scheme had been carefully unfolded to Edwards he fell and accompanied accompanied the alleged foot racers to Denver There it was proposed that Edwards transfer his bank account from Lo Logan Logan Logan gan to Denver Dener Edwards at once became suspicious and returned to Logan Noth Nothing NothIng NothIng ing daunted by this hitch in their plans the young oung men who had ensnared their victim thus far proposed to keep him in inthe inthe inthe the trap they had formed They followed Edwards in ill a few days to Logan telling him they had arranged to have their race at Denver Sept 20 0 and that Levy would race Jack Ryan of Idaho at Pocatello on Sept 25 They stayed In Logan about a i week but made no further endeavor to get Edwards to take any part In the game Not more than a week later however Edwards received a telephone message mes I from Boyle who was then In Salt Lake telling him that a match had been ar arranged arranged arranged ranged In Salt Lake that Levy was to torace torace torace race against an Ely runner and that Levy had no chance to lose He Hc asked Ed to come lome to Salt Lake and bet 00 on Levy Edwards came to Salt Lake the tho next day and Boyle told him he had agreed to bet 1000 He argue the matter and the thousand was put up The bet was sas made In room of the Knutsford hotel where Edwards was In Introduced introduced introduced to a man named T H Howard who ho acted as stakeholder The other thousand was put up against Edwards by two to men who were backing the Ely run runner runner ner tier Later In the game Edwards was in induced Induced induced to put up 2000 against bet by the Ely men on their runner Conspirators Disappear The foot nace sace according a to the schedule of the grafters was to be run at Wanda Yanda Wandamere Wandamere mere on Tuesday Sept 17 The day be before before before fore the event was to take place Edwards consulted T H IL Smith a Logan business businessman man who told him that he was suspicious of the whole game That aroused the sus suspicion suspicion suspicion of Edwards and he consulted Rod Roderick Roderick Roderick erick McKenzie who was then chief of police The chief advised him to say sa nothing but to stay with Howard until after the race when the police would in interfere interfere Interfere and catch the entire gang In Instead Instead Instead stead of keeping quiet however Edward Edwards told Boyle Bole that he suspected that the stakeholder would try to steal the money Boyle Bole said he was not suspicious of him but would go to o look for him Edwards remained at the Knutsford and soon Levy Lev came in Edwards repeated the story of ot othis his suspicions to him and Levy went to look for Boyle and Howard None one of them ever returned to the hotel On searching the room at the Knutsford the police found a large quantity of green paper so cut and lithographed as to ap appear appear appear pear to a hasty hast observer to be real money mone It was undoubtedly this sort of currency against which Edwards bet real money mone Some days das later the tho police arrested Wll Wil VillIan han llan Gibson on the charge of being in the conspiracy to swindle Edwards That Gibson had anything to do with the swin swindle swindle dle die was not shown and he was discharged |