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Show SWINDLING RING WAS FULLY ORGANIZED LOS ANOBUDS. Cel.. Feb. It. Lae Rial, on of th alleged leaders of a national na-tional race track, swindling ring which la under investigation hare waa lield yeaterday for trial on the charge of grand larceny. Hie ball was fixed at tlO.MO. The charge against him wss the result of ths alleged fleecing of a. P. Frelea, an Illinois man. out of mors than 13409 In a fake poolroom. K. C. "Pokr" Davis, a well known sporting character, who waa arreeted with Rial, Is out on ball. Tha Investigation, which alartsd whan Frelsx reported his loeeee. haa led, the police assert, to .the dlecovery that the ewtndlere have a well directed organisation organi-sation to fleece transcontinental tourists and that their operetlons conducted under official protection have netted them close to half a million dollars. Agsnts have been ueed by the gang to rids the transcontinental train and enlloe vlc-tlma vlc-tlma to the fake poolrooms, several of which have been found In the nearby beach towna. Frelej dropped hi money In a room at Venice. other recent victims reported by the police were: W. C. 8leenburg. Fulton county, Illinois, Illi-nois, who lost It til. W. F. Noll. Milwaukee. Wit, who dropped IMot In betting on a fake horse race at Hermoea Reach. C. D. Mulholland. Midland. Tax., who lat Itltt In a fake poolroom at Re-don Re-don Beach. J. Griffith. Oklahoma City, swindled of 111.004 by confidence men at Pasa-dena |