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Show "BAGMAN" FOWLER INDICTED. Held to Grand Jury on a Charge of Extortion. New York. Everett P. Fowler of Kingston, N. Y., who was described by John A. Hennessy, graft investigator investi-gator for former Governor Sulzer, as the Tammany "bagman" for contributions contribu-tions from state highway contracts, was indicted Friday on a charge of extortion. He was accused of forcing forc-ing Seneca P. Hull, a highway contractor con-tractor of Cortland, N. Y., and an enrolled Republican, to give $250 as a Democratic campaign contribution under threat that the work on Hull's $23,500 state road contract in Cortland Cort-land county would not be approved by the state highway inspectors and that his pay would be held up. |