Show A KANSAS EMBEZZLER He Is Charged with Misappropriating Insurance In-surance Funds TOPEKA Kan Jan 7ExCommis sioner of Insurance D W Wilder today began criminal proceedings against Deputy Dep-uty Billingslea charged with the embezzlement embez-zlement of f 6000 Billingslea proposes to fight the charge Captain G W Stabler and State Senator Harwi who are on j Billingsleas present bond say as an insurance in-surance agent here he settled his deficiency de-ficiency through W D Wilder insurance insur-ance commissioner six months ago when the charge was first made Billingsleas friends openly charge that is a plot to saddle somebodys theft upon a man who I may not be able to defend himself and I they do not believe there even was a deficiency de-ficiency Jeffreys Trial Continued SACRAMENTO Jan 7The preliminary examination of Engineer Jeffreys on the charge of the murder of Miss B O Ayres the Brighton telegraph operatoress was continued from today until Wednesday next Steele Discharged NEW YORK Jan 7A writ of habeas corpus issued yesterday requiring Dr Steele to produce his wife in court this morning on the ground that he was holding hold-ing her a prisoner in the Gilsey house was discharged this morning Mrs w Steeles counsel stated that she had been releasedand was now free from her husbands I I I hus-bands restraint |