Show TAKEN AS MA MAYBRAY'S YORA VS V'S COLLEAGUE Ed McCoy Alias Ferguson Is Arrested by F Federal deral Officers SAID TO BE MEMBER OF SWINDLING GANG Many Victims Mulcted of r Thousands Throughout West est and South After a chase elase aco of over o two to mil miles s Je yes yea y a afternoon Deputy United States Marshal Lut Lucian an 11 H. H Sm Smyth th and P stoffi b Inspector In C D 1 Lowe arrested Ed Erl Me- Me Ic Goy oy alias illias Ferguson as one of the b large lare fau gang cang of Maybray swindlers s who ha have operated in in many cities cHits of the t I United States The ch charge rp upon which h he hc was 35 arrested is il i that of using min the he j mails to promote a t fraudulent scheme 1 McCoy o is IS thought ht to be one of th expert wrestling m match 1 ch foot root race ss nod bel belore ore or race rare 4 promoters who have h got ot otaway away with thousands of dollars in arious various vari ari ous oils parts of the country S Several cr l of the gang are under arrest t. t in Omaha and Bluffs and other points where government to indictments have haye hc been n I brought a against tin t them The manner r of arrest t J. J yesterday wm Will p peculiar Posto fico Inspector Lowe was walking walkine south on oni Main i in street when hen ho he heran horan horan ran across a man who answered all the description de do- of McCoy a as furnished the inspector inspector in in- a. a i iI I week ck ago o bv by the Council Bluffs muffs officials H He lie followed him hint tu to a j i. i bous bouse on Third South street and then I called for Deputy ru Smyth who wn hurried over ever to the place Soon t Co and a t woman and anti an aim other man man came came out t to th Iid sidewalk alk and started east P on on Third South Marshal Smyth h followed follow t l a t short distance tt behind an and Mr rr I Lowe followed ed The Ib chase wAS was kept up 11 until S Seventh Sf East was It rH reached bpd and Rod McCoy and the others turned th t to Sheriff Knows the tho Man The officers turned al also o and nd were met Ie by Sheriff Sha Sharp p who was as proceeding dins to the county JaIl in his hu buggy The sheriff seeing the federal official jal H m- m sho int 1 stopped and asked them what was UTI S S' S He He n wa was 3 asked if he lie knew Ed McCoy o and be he answered that he lie did and that thit that was as McCoy c. c im o of oth them m h The federal of officers then hurried d and overtook overtook over ocr took McCoy cCO between Sixth South and na Seventh South on Seventh East fi Sharp know knew JIt o personally anti and introduced l him to Mr rr Smyth Im HIm glad to know kno you Jou said taid id Mc I Co CoV Co II I I am am amnot not PO so sure about that said said- a d Smyth for I have hare a warrant n for your Jour arrest What hat do 10 O l. want ant to arrest we me for for J McCoy J COY Corrects tho the om Officers rs On On an m in indictment brought ht a against in J Omaha you jon Iii In Omaha or Council COl Bluffs asked McCoy He lle was then n hurried to the county jail Tomorrow morning hn hr will be ta taken before Uni United teil Stat States es Commissioner Charles Ch Baldwin and if his identity can fan be established as Ed Eu JeCo he will be ho betaken betaken taken before Jud Judge Pal Page Pago Morris in in the United States district court If it is is the man wanted Judge Morris lorris is 18 expected ex CX- to order the time case ease and amid ll d the tho oner ommer taken to Omaha Mr r. r Smyth went tot to the tho McCoy cCOY home honie on Seventh S South th a 3 little hitte east of Seventh Seventh Sev Sev- East Hist hut but failed to find anything that be Le of importance in the case against him How Game Was Was Worked The fhe gang which ha has h becu eu operating over o the time country h has s secured many thousands thou of dollars with ith the various s games gaines Members of the time gang aD look lookaround lookaround aroun around in iii a city rih until they get ct what they judge will bo be an an easy eay as mark lined up Then TheD they the telegraph t the tho rest r t of the tha crowd i and nfl and th they swarm into the city in in lar large numbers and arr arrange J the thc skin game gamo One member gets Its parti particularly familiar with the tl intended victim and ann ann- pcr shows him his skill in thing 61 or l' l foot racing or orun in handling handlin horses borscs as 5 the time case lna may be bt Soon Soona another of the tho san gang comes in inand in inand and anti is No doo some somo pumpkins in the racing rae rac ii in ing business 8 A A. match is framed up and the co sucker gu ke is is persuaded through h all m manner of oC shrewd tricks to put up MIne sonic money The outcome is is disastrous for him and aDd be c usually ends up minus minu a few thou thousand and dollars and all his bis former friends tho tIme swindlers Victims Are Many 1 In n Seattle Denver Den Omaha Council CO Bluffs Kansas City New Orleans and many man other cities the crooks crooks' have ha Th Time The arrest of McCoy i is thought hought to be bc hi highly important as he ho heis heis hois is is supposed to have been becu one of the rin IIa ors With the local police 5 McCoy h has ban JI mad nade of n a n record cord also He lie Helas has las been in the city and count county jails for various arious offenses cs from tunic time t to tiie but ut until tIme the ele of of hinr wa was received a week ago 30 by Marshal br hal Smyth he le was waR not Dot Sl suspected of being belD one o ot of tic he I gang raul |