Show THIS IS TOUGH Ramseys Bondsmen Have No Claim Upon His Estate CARLYLE Ills May 12Judge Wall of the circuit court has decided that the ten Chicago bondsmen of the late state treasurer Rams y are not entitled ti reimburse themselves out of his estate for 363000 they paid into the state treasury to make good his deficit The court held that the lending lend-ing of state funds to the banks by his sureties to be illegal and to be against public policy and that the arrangement ar-rangement with his bondsmen tended to malfeasance in office According to this opinion the bondsmen are liable to I prosecution under the criminal code and i is said the Carlyle creditors of the state treasurer will attempt to have the bondsmen indicted for conspiracy The rminirm mat flied in thp rnsp of John Witbeck and other general creditors I credi-tors who sought to prevent the allowance allow-ance of the bondsmens claim against the estate The ten bondsmen who I are bankers and representative bankers bank-ers ere John H Witbeck of the Fort I Rearborn National Bank John A I King of the Fort Dearborn National Natonal Bank John R Welsh and Andrew J McNally of the Chicago National Bank Edscn Keith and Ellridge B Keith of the Metropolitan Bank Charles L Hutch ins and Ernest A Hammil of the Corn Exchange Bank William Hammond II Ham-mond and F S Dreyer of the National Na-tional Bank of Illinois |