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; i I " AFTER CULPRITS IN IMPERATOR CASE. T Investigators Are at Work: in Hopes of Catching Those Responsible for Sponge Trick. By Ed Cole. Saratoga, N, Y., August 14. During the Tijuana meeting last winter a case of "nose stuffing" was discovered. James Coffroth, the manager Of the institution, determined he would run down the perpetrators of the dastardly "job. No money was spared to dig out the mess. The best investigators were employed to aid in the matter. "Ill get em," was the-- watchword of Coffroth. He did. The result was the suspension of three men who are still under the ban. It took Coffroth some time to accomplish what he had determined to do, but he did it. r The Imperator case of similar nature at this track, is now a week old and more. It may lie that the investigators here are collecting good evidence and in due time will have sufficient to implicate somebody in the case. Let everyone hope 50. No stone should le left unearthed to get the man or men wli6 Instigated and carried out the inhuman act on Imperator. While it is a hard matter to determine positively the culprit in such -eases for a nose staffer" is a sly worker and corroborating evidence is almost an impossibility. Hence much reliance should be placed on circumstantial, incidents. Positive tho Job Was Done for Profit. That the. job was done for profit is positive. Was it sonie one or two odds layers, who devised the scheme, knowing, "that Imperator would be a decided favorite in the ntcej or was it .someone connected with the stable who saw a means of picking up a little sura money and offered opportunities to an odds layer? It takes brains and more than -one or two men to derive a benefit from such a transaction. It might be that members of the layers fraternity are perfectly innocent and tliat,.ome heavy speculators engineered the job,- and. having Imperator practically dead, wagered heavily .on the- only logical contender. Kings Oak. No matter what it was or who it was, it is a questioii now of gathering in the instigators and perpetrators of the plot. It was a most dastardly act. not conducive to the health of racing and one that should earn a jail sentence., for life. There is not one-out-of ten thousand" racing men who would not send the villains to the treadmill. It is a nasty case with but one determination for the invest!- gators. That is to get them. Coffroth got em in fur off Tijuana and he is- a ! new man in the business.
