Show CLAIMS WALTON ACCEPTED BRIBE OKLAHOMA GOVERNOR TAKES REWARD FOR SCHOOL APPROPRIATION Prosecution Admits Lack of Evidence Charge is Article Five of Twenty Twenty- two Charges against Oklahoma's Oklahoma's Okla Okla- homas homa's Governor Oklahoma City Okla Governor Okla-Governor Governor J. J C. C Walton alton was accused Wednesday by bythe bythe the he house board of managers which Is prosecuting Impeachment charges against him of receiving through a arlend arlend friend a bribe of in connection with the th appropriation for th the u IIO sHy ity Preparatory school at This was article 3 G of the prosecutions prosecutions prosecution's tion's ions two twenty charges against the suspended executive It was charged h by y W. W E. E in an opening statement state state- ment lent before beC re the senate court of or impeachment Im- Im that the governor was persuaded per per- to approve the appropriation for Cor or the school and in return for which A V. V D D. D Snodgrass a friend and confidant confiant dant ant of Walton ulton received from Ton Ton- ka kawa awa wa citizens The prosecution admitted that they could not prove prO that Walton himself actually dually received the alleged bribe but ut that they would present a circumstantial circum circum- case which would make male it impossible for the Ole governor and anel his friend Snodgrass to den deny hn having ing re the mone money Testimony of Aldrich Blake the first witness examined on the charge created a stron strong defense for the gov- gov erncr Blake Blako said that he had no knowledge knowl knowl- edge dge of oC the governor go accepting the money loney The witness declared that the he only time he had any su suggestion of money being raised In Tonkawa to support the school appropriation measure was on the the- occasion of oC a telephone call caB and that the governor go told old him to tell the people that were giving money that they were being grafted upon The governor said according to Blake that he lie didn't do business that way and would not countenance the suggestion that such a subscription would do un any good |