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Show FOUR PROMINENT MENJNDICTED Ohioans Charged With Violating Viola-ting Civil Service Law Bonds Aggregate $2,000,000. Columbus, O., March 13. Six in-dlctmonts, in-dlctmonts, containing an aggregate of seventeen counts, were returned in the common pleas court today against four prominent men, Emory W. Lat-tanncr, Lat-tanncr, state superintendent of banks i W. L. Flnley, chairman of the Democratic state committee; A. V. Abernethy, secretary of the state tax commission, and M. A. Goler, chief clerk to the superintendent ot banks. It is charged that the men contributed or caused state employes, In violation of the civil service law. to contribute to a fund for the maintenance main-tenance of the Democratic press bureau, bu-reau, which was operated under the direction of Chairman Finley and of which Abernethy was the literary head. All were released on bonds aggregating aggre-gating more than $2,000,000, the sureties sure-ties being Columbus financiers and business men. |