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Show JUDGE USED I -BAMONEY! i I Took Money From Bootleggers Boot-leggers to Obtain His "Sacred Ermine' Bdreka, Cal Aug 24 United States Marshal Henrj L. Ford, of tho district of northern California, became be-came today the central figure of nn iin cstigatlon which the department of justice has been conducting here, to see if bail raonej was used, lwo ij'eais ago. as a congressional campaign cam-paign fund. I Special Examiner Mastcrson, of tho department, will leave tomorrow for San Francisco to present his findings find-ings to authorities there, and these findings, he said today, are that the money was so used. Marshal Ford, in a formal statement, state-ment, says that $1300 bail money received re-ceived in 1910 from thirteen men charged with selling liquor to Indians In-dians the case which Examiner Mastoreon has been probing was returned re-turned to thorn in April, 1910: that these men were duo to bo tried In July on other charges; that, as they had no lawyer, he accepted a retaining retain-ing fee of ?100 each from them, with the provision that, If the cases were not tried, the money should go into tho congressional campaign fund of State Superior Court Judge John L. Childs. of Del Norte county. The cases, he asserts, were nolle proseed, and this money, which was not bail money at all. went into Childs' fund. "I have nothing to conceal," ho concludes. con-cludes. 00 |