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rit ‘the Turf crub ‘would not. “pay the bet unless Steams “Goula stow: a. %. sufficient amount of Sash to indicate tha he could have paid - the $500,000.00 in the event he had lost. Stearns stated that. _he was a little short of cash, that he only had the 3350,000.00 ° - @14 not believe thet McDaniel and the third man could raise mre = -had been endeavoring to perpetrate a fraud on Piepere Pieper . / _ from Stearns. oP. Ma, tos va, tare ee .. and bia wife, but they could not identify any.of them as the persons with whom they. had dealt at Day tone Boactiy. Flas : which had been involved in the betting of the previous day. and : than an additional $100,000,00 between them, He wanted Pleper to * supply the remaining cash in order that the one million dollars = - might be collected, Pieper told him that he did nd& think he } _- eould False that much money . _ eed oar i ° Pieper related that fe ant ‘Ms nife Lett Daytona Beach on’ : 3 the sane dey end returned to Scarsdale. “He said that during the: = -9.7 — tine he came in contact with Stearns and his essocieates, he had -“*~ éiven them his nane and adiresa aud that siortly after Lie return home he received a telegram fram Stearns, Me said he could not «=, remember the substance of the message but that he did not wish to ; have anything further to do with Stearns and his friends and he accordingly told his son, H. A. Pieper, the story of his contact with them, Pieper said that his son communicated sith a lawer © - mamed Quinn, sho was formerly the District attorney of some county - in Northern New Jersey, and told him the etory and Quinn expressed . the opinion that Stearns and his friends were confidence man end-” Tee vs said that he immediately wired Stearns at Daytona Beach, care of ° a the Poatal Telegraph Company, stating that he did not wish to be - fay further annoyed and thateny additional messages from him would be . referred to his attorneys He seid thet he did not hear further » The photographs of ‘gudjeot. Galetas, ‘ep ‘well : as of ‘the 2 other subjecte of this file, were displayed to both A. C. Piepe se ghe following memorandum, subul tted by "special dgent . _ G Ve. Doherty, covering investigation made by him at Buffalo and -: ath : ve Syracuse, N.Y, with respect to the ¢. F. Clough mentioned in the: report of reference, is being set outs -