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Show ENVER POLICE FACE GRAND JURY PROBE REACTION FROM HUGE SWINDLE TAKES M COPS One of Victims Files Suit to Recover $50,000 Lost to Bunko Ring ! LEADERS' BONDS SET jCity Officials Refuse to Aid Prosecutor Unless He Bare.s Plans DENVER. Colo.. Sept 1 Announcement An-nouncement that there will be a grand Jury Invcsligattoji of the Denver police po-lice department filing of suit by one J of the victims of the alleged swindlers. . aught In last week's raid here in an i effort to recover money the victim ' claims to ha" lost, and disclosure of additional information as to the ex-i ex-i tent of the bunko rlDg" featured I Thursday's developments In District i Attorney PhUUp S an Clse's cam-palgn cam-palgn ar.alnM tue n legid swindlers. VV(iKKS VVlTJf l POLK V, ! - T1" rnH WNlUr.ii resu 1 In the fr- rest of more than 30 alleged confi-I confi-I dence men who were said to be mem-, mem-, bers Of a ' million dollar swindle ring " I was made by Van Cisc's assistants ' and state rangers without the aid bf the police. Since the raid, city officials of-ficials have announced that they I could not give Van else SgO.OOO to aid ln the prosecution of tno alleged swindlers unless Van C'ise would give I them certain information regarding ; his plans, wnich he hus refused to do. The district attorney refused to cpm-1 cpm-1 meat on the plans of the grand Jury J investigation into the police depart-' depart-' ment SUES FOP $25,000. j A. Nitshe or Dailas. Texas, Thursday filed suit In tlie dislrict ; court to recover 125,000 fiom the .... (i under arrest He chirms he lost ' t:iai amount In a stock deal engi-neered engi-neered by the alb ged ring. He also asked for an attachment against 111 oi tin. property of the prisoners whl i if granted, will tie up ahout $ 15.000 ' worth or property, according to lu-.- trict Attorney Van Cist Other suits similar to that filed by Nltsche may be Med by others who claim to have suffered losses 'through operations of the ring, Mr. Van Cise suld. CA1 GJTI THk.M IN rpiE it also was disclosed Thursday that Adoiph W Duff, characterised by the district attorney as the ' man behind the scenes" in the alleged swindle ring, had a complete list of the persons per-sons l elng sought by the raiders When he was arrested at his home early laat week. I ke list was identic: I with one prepared pre-pared and used by the district attor-aey attor-aey at a meeting u wrilcli Tlhal plans were made tor the raid onlv a few hours earlier, it was aid. Officials asserted that had Duffs arrest boen fl. laycd :."i minutes all the other men sought would have been, Informed or the raid and probably would liave escaped. es-caped. BONDS SET Bond for J. li French, who. police declare, Is the leader of the alleged iiunko" ring, was fixed at (60.000 by Judge Clarence Morley The bond for the other suspects was set nt 126,000 Tho higher bond (: French was asked by the district attorney, wlui announced today that five casus against French haae bc-n uncovered b) IO ft authorities. The five alleged victims of bunko schemes, who are said by the district attorney to ha e lmpllral..d l ren- ii in the plots through which they loat large sums of money, are J. T M.C-Grath M.C-Grath who was flee, ed out of JiiOOO; ! George Kunabuts, of Sapulpa, Okla.. ; who lost $26,000, W. A Karns of Denver, who was parted from Jl&.ooo J A Perakaek of Denver, who lost $50,000. und Mr. Tipton of Denver, ; whose loss amounted to $10 800. oo |