Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 December 1902 — Guilty of Offering a Bribe. [ARTICLE]

Guilty of Offering a Bribe.

Kalamazoo, Midi., Dec. JO.—Charles 11. Thompson, agent for the Hammond Packing company of Hammond, Ind., pleaded guilty In the circuit court here to offering a bribe to State Food Commissioner Snow lu this city last spring, and paid a fine of SI,OOO imposed by Judge WYnsor. The offense Is alleged to hnve grown out of Commissioner Snow's efforts to enforce the state law prohibiting the sale of colored butterine.