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Show INDIANA HAS A BIG SENSATION Tndianapolis, Ind , Dec. 4. Lieutenant Lieuten-ant Governor William P O'Neill, Horner L Cook, speaker of the house or the 1913 legislature, who recently took ollice as secretary of state, and other officers and members of the patronage committee of the 1913 legislature, legis-lature, were Indicted tonight by the Marion county grand jury Tin indictments charge that the official? signed warrants for pay of employes In amounts In excess of amountr fixed by law and for more employes than provided for in the statutep Others indicted were Mason J. Ni-black Ni-black of Vicennes. minute clerk and parliamentarian of the 1913 house; Levi P. Harlin, chief doorkeeper of the Ktate senate; Douglas Bolser. Newcastle, principal doorkeeper of the house John J. Keegan. Indlanap-iJolis, Indlanap-iJolis, representative; George W. Sands 'south Bend, representative; Samuel V Quillan, Indianapolis. principal h i t of the house of representatives; George M Rabb, assistant Becretarj l f lit senate; Paul C. Hill. Green- I castle, assistant clerk of the house; I Wtidr II. Free, Anderson, secretary of the senate and George Stelhorn. Indianapolis, engrossing clerk of the house. The Indictmi nts were returned un-I un-I sor tion L'S3H, revised statutes, which denis with false and fraudu j lent claims in Conner : Ion with the receipt re-ceipt or payment of btate, city and I county or township funds The nalty on conviction is two to fourteen years' imprisonment and a fin' of from $10 to SI 00 Thirty-four counts are contained in the indictments. A I of the indictment indict-ment allege that the men named presented pre-sented or signed false claims, which were paid out of the legislative funds. In only one case is the man named in the indictment said to have received re-ceived the money for which the alleged al-leged faJse claims were presented. Stelhorn is the exception. All of the money alleged to hae been illegally obtained from the legislative funds v. as ald to doorkeepers, clerks and stenographer The accused men will be allowed their literty on their own recognizance, recogniz-ance, ii was stated tonight. Keegan SMi.is Harlan and Niblack were members of the patronage committee commit-tee of. the loi" legislature. oo |