Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 October 1908 — HANLY’S RELATIONS WITH PINKERTON DETECTIVES. [ARTICLE]

HANLY’S RELATIONS WITH PINKERTON DETECTIVES.

Now that Governor Hanly is abroad in the state declaring that he is not a “cheap man" and that he would have refused to take the governorship at |5,000 a year, it is recalled that in addition to having the legislature allow him $9,800 a year for salary and house rent, he persuaded it to put $40,000 a year into his hands for “contingent" and "emergency" expenses. It may be interesting to the taxpayers to know the way in which some of this fund has been used. A few items taken from the records in the state auditor’s office, show, among other’ things, that the governor has been a good customer of the Pinkerton detective agency. Payments made to the Pinkertons are as follows: Oct. 5, 1907, Pinkerton & C0....51,540.00 June 11, 1908, Pinkerton & Co. 1,663.50 Total $3,203.50 Payments to four other detectives, including his friend, R. Harry Mi11er5666.74 To another “Investigator,” Will W. Failing .... 140.00 $806.74 Grand total for detectives..s4,olo.24 We do not undertake to say that the above sum is all that Governor Hanly has paid to detectives out of his contingent fund, but it is large enough to show the close relations between the present governor of Indiana and the Pinkerton detective bureau.