| Show FRAUD AND GRAFT T o Men fen Indicted for flies On fir of Washington Jan 6 Allegations of ot fraud and graft In supplying the Uio of engraving and printing with black dry color used In the ot of Ink resulted today In the ho Indictment by bytho bytho bythe tho the federal grand jury hero here 11 10 of ot Edwin EdwinM M 11 Van Vun Dyck formerly a n chemist and Ink maker employed In the tIre bureau and an Victor Bloedo president of at the Victor Bloedo company of ot Baltimore manufacturers of the tho black dry color Van Bloede Bloedo aro charged In with conspiracy to defraud tho the government tho tIne allegation being that they the entered Into an un agreement by which Bloedo lo was to pay pa Van Tan Dyck a percentage of ot tho the money his hs company received front from the government for Cor the tho black hIli ok dry eTry color furnished to tho the bureau ot of engraving and printing Van Dyck It Is alleged In his hI position as a chemist tend and Ink maker of t the bureau had bud to pass lass upon the tho samples of tho thu color sub tib submitted by various manufacturers It Is charged that ho hI fraudulently favored the Ire Baltimore company anti and that as asa a result of ot the conspiracy ho was paid by Bloede In tho tha course courso of or several years between and Attorneys los for both Van Yan Dyck D ck ansI and an appeared before Justice Stafford today loday and agreed to ball hail The Tho attorneys asserted n that tho Indictments wore of or a technical nature that tine tho alleged fraud did not Involve necessarily ly a n loss ios to 10 the tho government They claimed that the bureau received tho than host best color obtainable at nl a price 10 cents less per pound than It had paid prior to toI the tho rankling making of ot contracts with critic tho the Bloede ete I company corn pany |
