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Show CITY TREASURER HAMMERS OEM (After Telling Plausible Story! of Bandits Official Later Confesses WORRY OVER ELECTION BLAMED FOR ACTIONS 'Defeated Democrat In Harding's Hard-ing's Home Town Victim of Hard Luck MARION, 0 . Jan 28. Treasurer Han ;. ' l orry, of Marion county, who reported Wednesday morning that he had been robbed of 114,803 b t-.v bandits who knocked him unconscious In his office In the courthouse, was placed under arrest early today and confessed to the theft of the money, police announced today. The arrest came almost Immediately Immediate-ly after the birth of a fourth baby in tiie Forry household. Furry is 3f years old. a Democrat, son-in-law of jState Representative ) I. W . Cookston jand was defeatee In November for reelection. re-election. In his confession, according to the authorities, l orry who was found supposedly sup-posedly unconscious on the floor of the treasurer's office Wednesday, admitted ad-mitted that he scratched his face and struck himself on the head with hammer to make the story of an assault as-sault by two bandits seem plausible. He said he had taki n the ...one;, home I the night before and hidden It in a . hi St Forry. in his signs; d coTlfesslon. said h went deeply Into debt lasL fall durum? dur-um? his campaiigu for re-election and had heavily mortgaged wo houses he owned. His friends hyllcvi lh..i his mind became def'aiupfd with worry 'over his financial obligations and his I defeat for re-election. oo- |