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Show ILLINOIS GOVERNOR UNDERINUffl LIEUTENANT .GOVERNOR .8TER- LING AND BANKER ALSO NAMED IN TRUE BILL Misuse Of $10,000,000 Of State Funds Is Charge Brought Against Men By Sanagamon County Grand Jury In Illinois Springfield. III. Ia-ii Small, Illinois governor, ami Fred Sterling, lieutenant governor were charged Wednesday with misuse of .?10,XX),(X0 state funds In Indictments returned by the Sangu. mon county grand Jury. Voting of the Indictments brought to a head the greatest political scandal ln Illinois history Evidence on which the Indictments were voted Involved the deposit ot $10,-000,000 $10,-000,000 In an ulleged "paper bank," which the stato claimed wus created for that purpose only by close political friends of Governor Small. Iji Verne Curtis, president of the Grant Park bank and close friend ot Governor Small, was also Indicted. La Verne Curtis succeeded his brother, bro-ther, Senator Edward Curtis, as head of the bank. The bank was founded by the senator. The deposits were made to the Grant Park bank while Governor Small was state treasurer ami carried over under Sterling's administration without suf-tlclent suf-tlclent security, the state charges. The state will endeavor to prove the following allegations when the Illinois executive goes on trial: That the Institution wlilc'h received the deposit the Grant Park hank. did not deposit securities to cover the deposit de-posit with the slnte. That tlio money was loaned to the packing companies of Swift and Armour Ar-mour for an Interest rate of 8 per cent, while only 2 per cent was turned over to the state. That each candidate for state treasurer treas-urer was forced to sign receipt for the large sum before lie could receive the support of the orgunlzntlon In his race. The Investlgatlf.n was started by members of Govenor Small's own pol-itical pol-itical party. It wt.s In charge of Attorney Attor-ney General Kdv ard Hrundage. Although Al-though Hrundage Is n Itepubllcan, lie Is a member of the lowden wing of the party, while Sinnll Is an -adherent of the faction headed by Mayor Will-lain Will-lain Hale Thom ison of Chicago. |