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Show HIS BAIL REDUCED. Stanley Francis, However, Unable to Secure Bondsmen. PHILADELPHIA, March 25. Attorneys representing Stanley Francis, who was arrested last night charged with using tho malls to defraud, In connection with the dofunct Storey Cotton company, today to-day obtained n reduction of his bail from JIOO.OOO to 550,000. A bondsman hns not been secured and Xrancia Is still in tho county Jail. Tho prisoner Is head of tho Francis Printing company, and is accused ac-cused of furnishing tho literature used by the Storey Cotton company and tho Provident Prov-ident Investment bureau, two alleged get-rlch-qulck concerns. Tho mailing of this llteraturo Is said to havo been a violation viola-tion of tho postal laws. |