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Show KANSAS CITY MAN IDENTIFIES CROOK NEW YORK. June 12. From a dozen men arrested May 5 as alleged wire tappers, and who were being givon an adjourned hearing in police court tqday, Thomas "W, Ballew, a lumber merchant of Kansas City, picked one man whom he alleged was a member of the notorious Maybray gang of swindlers which operated fake sporting sport-ing events in the west in .1909. several members of which arc under indictment by the federal court. This man, Ballew said, swindled him out of $30,000 in a fake race at Council Coun-cil Bluffs, Iowa. October 18. 1009. He was booked on the police records as James Morton, a salesman. Ballew said he was known as Crawford in tho Maybray gang, and was locked up on the charge of grand larceny preferred by the Kansas City man. The other eleven men held on a wire tapping charge wero released on bail pending further hearing of their case. |