Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1902 — Chicago Tax-Fixers Found Guilty. [ARTICLE]

Chicago Tax-Fixers Found Guilty.

Chicago, Oct. 27.—The Jury in the Masonic temple tax fixing case returned a verdict of guilty against Luke Wheeler and Captain Williams. Captain Williams was sentenced to pay a fine of $1,600 and to be imprisoned six months and Wheeler fined 3,000 and to be Imprisoned two yenrs. It was charged that Wheeler and Williams assisted by others, by menus of forgeries, made It appear that approximately *27,000 taxes due on the 1 Masonic temple hnd been paid. The forgeries were discovered und the conspiracy die-, closed.