Show OHIO PRINT SHOP ED WIT R GRAfT CRAFT Investigation Urged by Gov Goy Harmon Reveals Startling Condi Conditions i S cor COLUMBUS uMBUS 0 O. Feb Fob 14 Chairman H.-Chairman Chairman I of the or the legislative graft graft I committee appointed through the insistence in e of Governor Harmon announced an an- I today that J. J E. E Brelsford of I Dayton once partner of Mark Slater former supervisor sup of state printing had hadI I I confessed to him of wholesale grafting in ii th the tha department of printing 1 at t the the time Mr Mm Slater r was in in- charge chare According to the confession of ford from whom Slater bought goods he and Slater Sister divided drawn rawn from the state treasury on on vouchers vou bers forthe for forthe forthe the payment for stock never delivered to the state printing department Brelsford said ho he received for his share and Slater made a a cleanup clean up of the remainder i According to the confession all the stock sold by 13 Brelsford to Slater t hi h. h stands stands' on the the- books for something something- over r was was purchased by br in in Cincinnati for 1700 and was sold to Slater for 2300 This was the tho only bona fido transaction and upon it was based the fictitious transaction in in which the tho two secured Br went on the stand today inthe in the state probe investigation and related related related re re- re- re the details of the transaction to the committee Whole Thing Was Graft r Md Ui t ife called r. r Was shown a w warrant trant No 1256 upon which 11 he was paid 75 f for foi l goods g alleged to have been sold to the state state- suite bindery ery in in 1905 The entire list of goods was read to to him and ho testified frankly that not a a. siD single siDgie da t tu represented goods actually S delivered h b by him to the state that it was was a lie piece e of ot graft g Bc the cOl committee explained ex cx- again gaill that the testimony he mi might bt give could not be used against him in tho the criminal proceedings and he stated that wh when n tho ho same statement was made last week he did not understand understand under under- stand tand it The second bill bull shown MOwn him bun was of March 27 1906 1906 on which he lie had drawn I for fore pieces pic's of cloth He Tie that the l bi was padded 00 I per per t only tift fifty pieces piece's had hadI I ld r rI 5 5 i I r Similar te testimony was given i en as to toI I other ether purchases S |