Ogden Daily Standard | 1914-01-28 | Page 6 | Last Step in Swindle Cases

LAST STEP IN I SWINDLE CASES ! 1 V to 1 Judge Orders Remaining i n Charges in Famous May- bray Trial Stricken anc From Docket . ; fl . tu Council Bluffs, la., Jan. 28. The ; 'pi last step of the prosecution of the ;efl members of the notorious ."Maybray ' Ifflp1 swindle syndicate," whose- operations ' !':t in Council Bluffs and elsewhere a ; &a few years ago costs its victims a mil- jfnei lion dollars, was taken In the United Vi States court here late today when W- Judge Smith McPherson ordered all " the remaining cases stricken from the ; ; f docket. II Of the eighty-four -persons against II whom indictments were returned In i 7 the case, 54 were convicted and sen- tenced, four discharged, four became -i1 . istatd witnesses, seven died before be- Ing brought to trial, the identity of six was not fully established, and in one w case -the jury disagreed. W Among the remaining eight wha S were not tried, one was never located ; and tho evidence against the others j were not considered conclusive, part- -. 1 ly because of the death or" removal of p witnesses. ,