Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 285, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1920 — HALTED ON BOLLING CHARGES [ARTICLE]

HALTED ON BOLLING CHARGES

John T. Meehan, Shipping Board Investigator, Hints at Blackmail Attempt.

New York, Nov. 29.—John T. Meehan, deputy chief of the shipping board’s bureau of investigation, testifying before the Walsh congressional committee, said that charges of alleged division of money by R. W. Bolling, President Wilson’s brother-in-law, Lester Sisler and Tucker K. Sands, obtained from the Downey Shipbuilding corporation of New York for a “favorable contract.” were not “thoroughly investigated” by the board. Sisler Is a former secretary of the board and Sands a former Washington bank official. Meehan explained the department’s failure to go deeper into the charges as due to his opinion that Mr. Bolling, now treasurer of the shipping board, “was the victim of attempted blackmail.” Meehan testified, however, that he had, received no instructions to halt the Investigation and that It was still open.