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Show 1 'MUSED OF Til I CORPORATION CiSH H: Arthur A. McLean, Treasurer Hi of New York Democratic Hj Committee, Indicted. H FACES YEAR IN PRISON Hi So Far Whitman's John Doe H Inquiry Has Resulted in HI Three True Bills. HI XKW YORK, Dec 1. Arthur Mc- 1 Lean, treasurer of. the Democratic state ' committee, wat; indicted this afternoon H;M on two counts, charged with receiving Hj campaign contributions from corpora- H i B Everett P. Fowler of Kingston, the HI alleged Tammany "bagman," already under indictment for extortion, wns K agniu indicted, charged -with soliciting fl a oampaign contribution from a corpo- Hj ration. H The indictment of MaLean, mnkes the K third grooving out of tho district attor- 1 nov's investigation of John A. Hcnnes-K' Hcnnes-K' py's charges of graft in the stutc high- rray dopartuicnt. H: Basis of Indictment. The first :ount against McLean, R whose home is in Nowburgh, was based chiefly on the testimony of Mnthcw Van Alstvnc of Albany, au officer or the Shaughnessy Construction coinpiiny, who hna testified ho had sent a cam-HI cam-HI pa.cn contribution of $1000 in the form J f k bank draft to McLean in October, 1912. and received thoretor McLean -cetpt. Tho other count was baaed on testimony of Harold V. Owens, socrc-Hi socrc-Hi rarv and treasurer o tho I nccnup company ot Uica. that in the HI same inontli he had sent n. check J or i' MOO to McLean as a campaign contn-i contn-i button for his corporation. Tho new indictment agninst Fowlor was based on Owens' testimony that Fouler, had nolicited the contribution H: No Warrant Issued. Hj I'mlcr the state laws either the soljci- tation or the acceptance ot a campaign ontribution from a corporation is a misdemeanor punishable by n icarj mprisonincnt and a J me of $1000. iso warrant was issued for McLean -a ar-j ar-j rct and it was understood, that no woald bo given an opportunity to give himself u). M. Corroborative evidence in the A an lstvnc count was introduced beforo . in- iurv in tho form of the original ot ti e SIO'OO draft, and the postoffico reg- strv receipt for the letter in which it 1 wn- inclosed, signed by b. J. Inirko, a l messenger in the employ oi the Demo- emtio stiito committee. Burke was among the witnesses., as were also offi-rials offi-rials of banks in cw ork and A-, A-, banv through which the drat , passed, ' and" employees of tho slato highway de-f de-f nartment. Vailed to prove that Van Al-B Al-B styne had highway coniracts with the 1 Thi- canceled check of tho Dale En-, En-, "iiiccring comnany. iudorscil with Mc-I Mc-I Lean's signature, was a part oi the cor-robnrative cor-robnrative evidence introduced in sup- port of the second count. The district attorney's .loliu Doejn- fuiirv, at which the evidence against thoe now under indictment was ongi-nallv ongi-nallv brought out, will be resumed to- morrow. More contractors are expect- fd to testify. |