Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 287, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1914 — O’NEIL AND COOK BOTH INDICEED [ARTICLE]

O’NEIL AND COOK BOTH INDICEED

Democratic Lieutenant-6 o▼er no r and Secretary of State Charged With Legislative Graft.

Indianapolis, Ind., Dec. 4.—Lieutenant Governor William P. O’Neil, Secretary of State Homer L. Oook, speaker of the house during the 1913 session of the legislature and other officers connected with the patronage of the 1913 legislature were indicted tonight by the Marion county grand jury. The indictments charge that the officials signed warrants for pay for employes in excess of the amounts fixed by law and for more employes than provided for in the statutea Others indicted were: Mason J. Niblick, of Vincennes, minute clerk and parliamentarian of the 1913 house; Levi P. Harlin, of Indianapolis, state senator; John D. Shea, Indianapolis, chief doorkeeper of the state senates Douglas Bolser, Newcastle, principal doorkeeper of the house; John J. Keegan, Indianapolis, representative; George W. Sands, South Bend, representative; Samuel N. Quillen, Indianapolis, principal clerk of the house of representatives; George M. Rabb, assistant secretary of tbfcr senate; P. C. Hill, Greencastle, assistant clerk of the house; Wade H. Free, Anderson, secretary of the senate, .and George Stel'horn, Indianapcdijj, grossing clerk of the house. * Thirty-four indictments were returned. All of the indictments vallege that the men named presented or signed false claims which were paid out of the legislative fund®. In only one case is the man named in the indictment said to have received the money for which the alleged false claims were presented. This man is Sfelhorn. All of the money alleged to have been illegally obtained from the legislative funds was paid to doorkeepers, clerks and stenographers. All of the accused will be allowed their liberty on their own recognizance, it was stated tonight. Keegan, Sands, Harlan and Niblack were members of the patronage committee of the 1913 legislature.