RANCHER GETS LAST OF GANG.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16805, 11 August 1925, Page 8

RANCHER GETS LAST OF GANG.

SEVENTH SWINDLER GOES TO PRISON.

KANSAS CITY, Kan., July 9.—W. B. Spencer, last of the gang of seven swindlers who fleeced J. Prank Norfleet out of his life savings of £9OllO six years ago, is being taken back to Texas to pay for his part in the confidence game tltut booineranged on the perpetrators. Back in 1919 when Norfleet, diminutive middle-aged Texas randier, found his savings in the hands of the seven, confidence men, lie oiled up his sixgun and announced to his wife that he was going after the inen. "Co ahead, Trank. I'll run the ranch,’ said Mrs. Norfleet. "Get every one of them." In six years of tireless search in every .State in tho Union and even into the Canadian Northwest, the little rancher found his enemies. The gang had scattered, but, one by one, Norfleet brought about a reunion behind prison bars of the group that a few years before had preyed upon gullible and unsuspecting ranchers.

His search for the seventh of the crooks ended when he discovered /Spencer already. in a penitentiary, serving two years for narcotic peddling. The convict was removed to Texas where he was sentenced to eight years, and was then brought back to tho Federal prison to complete his twoyear term.

Norfleet was waiting at the prison gates when Spencer was freed and had him arrested. Spencer’s attorneys fought extradition to Texas on the grounds that authorities there had: no jurisdiction over him after he had been turned over to Federal authoriTfes. But Judge Kombrotigh Stone, of tho Federal Court, ruled that Spencer must pay.