Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1901 — OFFICIAL CONFESSES FRAUDS [ARTICLE]

OFFICIAL CONFESSES FRAUDS

Surgeon Wal<-h Weaken* During the Trial in the Philippine., Manila, June 12. —In the trials of officers of the Forty-third regiment on charges of bribery and permitting trade with tiie closed ports of the southern part of the Island of Leyte, Surgeon Dudley Welch confessed and made damaging statements against Captain Michael Shellman and Lieutenant Delliert R. Jones. Welch refunded 1,000 pesos, his share of the spoils. Ths' presldente of Maasin (Leyte) has be»»n arrested, charged witli lieing implicated in tiie transactions. Agents of Manila firms also apl»ear to have been connected with the acts on which tiie charges against the prisoners were based.