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Show PHILADELPHIA VICTIM TO TAKE WITNESS STAND PHILADELPHIA, Sopt. IS. Agents of the Hepartment of jnetire wfrr hu.y here toiiay atherint; further evidence evi-dence auaint the. members of the al-Jeeil al-Jeeil blarkinailiiif; hand arrester! in Chirao Saturday, and tonight, served a warrant on William Butler, alias Butt", who federal authoritieH say is one of the ringleaders of ihe syndicate. Other arrests are expected and in tho meantime mean-time government officers here arc withholding with-holding details of the operations of ihe alleged Ida' hinailers. Butler was arrested here las' January on a charge of conspiracy and impcrso in a United Stltitt) marshal in at tempting to cxtorl money from Mrs. Susan Ci. S. YVinpenny in order io protect pro-tect a son from prosecution for a supposed sup-posed eseapnde in Atlantic 1'ity. He was held in heavy bail, nnd was to have been brought to trial at the present term of the federal district court. Mrs. Win-penny Win-penny died several weeks ajio and in consequence tho ease is held in abeyance. Mrs. Klipper Fleeced. On the same day Butler was arrested, Mrs. Keginn Klipper, according to Frank L. Garbariuo, agent of the department de-partment of justice in this city, went to Iew York with a man who turned out later to he Frank Crocker, alias Don Collins. She fell a victim of the 'alleged blackmailers, according to Gnrbarftio, nnd was mulcted out of a large sum of money by Frank Irwin, whose home is said to be in Worcester, Mass., and another man who is still a fugitive. They represented themselves as government officers, Garbarino said. Crocker was arrested in Tampa, Fla., last Febniarv, and was taken to New York and held in bail to await trial. Irwin was arrested in Chicago in June nnd later the accused men, according to Garbarino, succeeded in getting Mrs. Klipper to go to Montreal to avoid appearing ap-pearing against them. Irwin disappeared disap-peared and has not since been found. Crocker is under surveillance in New York. Butler was held today on charges of aiding and abetting in the alleged blackmailing of Mrs. Klipper. Woman to Testify. The authorities also propose to hold Crocker and several others for trial in New Y'ork in connection with the Klipper Klip-per case and it is understood others wdl be placed on trial here for obstructing justice. Mrs. Klipper left here late today, accompanied ac-companied by government agents from New Y'ork and this city, for Chicago, where she will be a witness against some of the alleged blackmailers arrested ar-rested Saturday night. John C. Knox, assistant United States attorney of New Y'ork, who has charge of the entire prosecution and has been working on the case from his New Yrork office for months, was here today in conference with Garbarino. |