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Show MAYBRAY CASE IS I full oniras" I James Tierney Voluntarily Do- H nates $10,000 to Million- aires' Club. H POLICE MAGISTRATE THE I MAN TO PULL STRING Secretary of Club Proves to Be H Well-Known Business' H Man of Iowa. H By Associated Press. COUNCIL BLUfTS, la.. March 12. H The story oh the witness staud of. Jamos Tierney, an iron and metal merchant ot! Stroator, TIL, of how ho lost $10,000 on a wrestling match in Kew' Orleans early in 1008, featured today in the trial of John C. Slaybray and other de-fendants, de-fendants, charged -with extensive swiu-dies. swiu-dies. Tierney bitterly denounced tht de-fendants. de-fendants. He was induced, according to his testimony, to go to New OrleanB by John C. Smith, at that time police magistrate of Strcator, HI., and knuwn to Tierney many years. Smith is under indictment in tbo'present case. lie then detailed the making of the book, in which nearly $109,000 in bet3 wero registered. He said ho was in-duccd in-duccd to loan his own $10,000 to Smith temporarily to make up the purse. Then came the match, with the usnal tragic ending, one wrestler being badly injured and he being hurried out of the city to avoid arrest. "I expected the match to be held in a fine hall," ho testified, "but thev pulled it off in an old barn down on the levee." A. S. Johnsou, a farmer living near Streator, told of losing .$10,000 on a 1 wrestling match at South Bend. Ind.. and Houry Stogsdill of Cabool, Mb., said he contributed $3000 on a horso race a' Denver. William SeoU of Pawnee, Okla., was recalled and identified two letters ho wrote to Stogsdill at Cabool, urging him to try the game again. Women in Court. Local posloffice officials were called at the afternoon sessiou. in tho govern-meat's govern-meat's contention that 'Maybray had rented a hox in the Council Biffs post-office post-office and received mail there. Interest contimies to increase here in Interest continues to increase hero in the case of John C. Maybray and his eighteen associates on trial in the fed-oral fed-oral court for wholesale swindling by fraudulent use of tho mails. Mrs. K. B. Hcrmian,. who -was sub-poenaed sub-poenaed from Los Angcies by the gov-ernment, gov-ernment, has been in court sinco tho trial began. She has attracted consid-erable consid-erable attention as she sat in a con-spicuous con-spicuous place within the rail arrayed in a picture hat and a neat fitting prin-cess prin-cess dress, and wearing several large diamond rings. Sho was dismissed thn morning, however, and will probably leavo the city today. She declined Co talk for pubficatioD Mrs. Maybray has beep present in the courtroom throughout the trial, ac companied by several other women. Sho exchanges glances of confidence with her husband whenever his counsel scores a point in his favor, and often assists his .attorneys by refreshing H their minds on points in the testimony. jH Battle Over Evidence. A legal battle over the admissibility of letters and other documentary evi-dence evi-dence obtained by Postal Inspector jH Swenson soon aftor tho arrest of Maj--bray at Little Keck opened today's scs-sion. scs-sion. E. L. McCord of Keokuk, la., one of the attorneys for tho defense, mado a jH strong plea to have tho testimony ex-cludod, ex-cludod, but was finally interrupted by Judge McPherson, who said: "You aro at cross purposes with the jM supremo court of the United States and with all respect to you, Mr. McCord, I might follow that court. The moliou is overruled." fl Counsel for tho government iuinie-diatelj' iuinie-diatelj' began reading the letters to tlio 1 jury. Photographs identified yestcrdav as thoso of tho man who posed as J. W. Cramer, secretary of tho 'Millionaire's club," were shown to Postmaster Kc;.-burn Kc;.-burn and J. R. Miller of Brooklyn, la , who testified that they were the pic tures of Joseph Verstratten, for thirty-fivo thirty-fivo vears a resident of Brooklyn. Arer- Afl strattcn is one of tho men indicted with Mavbray, but is not under arrest. James 'Tierney, a merchant of Strea- tor, 111., told ot a trip to New Orleans SB to witness a wrestling match which cost him $.10,000. |