Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-09-18 | Page 2 | Jury Receives Swindle Case

JURY RECEIVES SWINDLE SWINDLE- CASE CASI 1 NEW YORK Sept 18 UP uP- uP M federal court jury today oday received the case casC of oC James C. C McKay a William J. J Graham Reno N gambling ambling impre impresarios arlos who ver r fl t. t tried led on charges of using the m malwin I in a n conspiracy to fleece of millions s of f dollars m TIe The trial l began egan a week week ago w Wit the government attempting to toh Graham and McKay were the d geniuses of a bunco mm which lured some 70 victims to le leand Ren J Jand am and swindled them hem in inake fake ake to aloe market and race rac track deals m Much of the c case revolved a aroun oun Roy J. J Frisch former cashier o the Reno Riverside bank who van vanIshed van vanished mysteriously in March 1 1934 as he prepared to give evidence n which the government claimed would convict the two gamblers j Frisch had testified at trials 0 oil other alleged members of ot the swin swin-l dUng ring all of whom were were con con l In the absence of Frisch the governments government's ace witness was was J 0 M seph M M. Feu ih assistant cashier who testified the bank through Frisch made conversions conversions' of securing ties and bonds in the alleged swindling swin swin- dUng deals 1 In his Judge Robert Rob ert J. J McMillan instructed the jury juzi that Frisch was bound to know frauds were being practiced H Ri added That if you find Frisch Frinch w wai not a party to the frauds then d degard di dis 1 regard testimony as to what Frisch told him fl testified that Frisch tol told him many of ot the securities conver convert were In the nature nature of of swin Iwin dies 1 This was Grahams Graham's and McKays McKay's second trial The jury disagreed inthe in Iti II the first t. t