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BROOKSTON DOCTOR IS ^VICTIM OF SHARPERSDr* D. M. Kelley Said to Have Lost $15,000 in Detroit Race. HorseSwindle.According to dispatches from De*» troit, Mich., Dr. Don M. Kelley, a prominent and wealthy practicing physician of Brookston, Ind., has com-, plained to the police in the Michigan metropolis that he was swindled out of $15,000 by clever race horse sharp- j ers. The Detroit dispatch says: 4‘It * became known here yesterday that Dr. Don M. Kelley, 55 years old, of Brookston, Ind., was ‘easy pickings', for a trio of swindlers last Wednesday and it cost him just $15,000. War-: arils for the trio were issued and one of the alleged swindlers arrested. His name is Edward F. Stanley and he says he hails from Murfreesboro, i Tenn. Dr. Kelley was on his way to New York when he met three strangers who opened a conversation and won the confidence of the physician. Kellev was allowed to get in on a -V r‘good thing’ with a chance to make $2o.on0 profit for himself. Dr. Kelley wrote his check for $15,000, his share of the money to be put lip. The horse, dubbed Defense and supposed ho be running at Saratoga, came in j ahead of the bunch, but. the race j horse man said he would not pay the I doctor his share of the winnings until I he knew lor certain that the physician a ad ieim* red ilit-' cheek in good faith. To pi eve his reliability 1 he men insisted ; hat Dr. Kelly show the cash.The piivsician sen: to Lafaveue fora iiva-i for which he had oash-. lie tool; it id iiilt; office ol the !ace horse man and placed it in the ‘./i.iihiei *s hands. The race horse. v.:,, a we at in io another room and in a few minutes returned and informed i he physician that in* had bet it with
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Fowler Benton Review
Fowler, Indiana, US
Thu, Aug 17, 1916
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