Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 196, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1916 — Brookston Man Flim-Flammed by Wire Tappers for $15,000. [ARTICLE]

Brookston Man Flim-Flammed by Wire Tappers for $15,000.

The lure of easy money made Dr. Don M. Kelly, 55 years old> “easy picking” for a trio of swindlers in Detroit on last Wednesday, when he was allowed to play a “sure thing” in a horse race to win $20,000, and the experience cost him $15,000. According to reports from Detroit on Tuesday, warrants for the trio were issued and one of the alleged swindlers was placed under arrest. Dr. Kelly was on his way to New York when he met three strangers who opened a conversation and won the confidence of the physician. Kelly was allowed to get in on a good thing with a chance to make a $20,000 profit for himself.

Dr. Kelly wrote his check for $15,000, his share of the money to be put up. The horse dubbed “Defense,” and supposed to be running at Saratoga came in ahead of the bunch, but the race horseman said he would not pay the doctor his share of the money until he was absolutely certain that the physician had tendered the check in good faith. To prove the reliability the men insisted that Dri Kelly show the cash. The physician sent to Lafayette for a draft for $15,000, which he had cashed. He took it to the office of the race horse man, and placed it in the gambler’s hands. The gambler went into another room and returned in a few minutes and informed the physician that he had bet it with $64,000 on another horse and that the entire amount had been lost. Kelly yelled “police" and Stanley was arrested. The other two men are being sought. Dr. Kelly is one of the best known residents of White county and has been practicing, medicine for a number of years at Brookston and owns much valuable farm land in that vicinity.