Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1908 — MICHIGAN SOLON ARRESTED [ARTICLE]

MICHIGAN SOLON ARRESTED

JEREMIAH H. ANDERSON ACCUSED OF FALBE PRETENBES.

Said to Have Collected Expense Account for Trip He Didn’t Make—- • Another Involved. ‘ ...

Grand Rapids, Mich., Mar. 17.—Representative Jeremiah H. Anderson xyas plaSfed under arrest Monday on a warrant following an indictment returned by the Ingham county grand Jury which has been investigating state affairs. He Is charged with false pretenses in submitting and collecting an expense account in connection with a trip of the senate and house fish committees through the state a year ago last February. It is claimed that he went only a short distance, but collected an expense account covering the entire trip. He was taken to Lansing Monday night Detroit, Mich., Mar. 17.—Representative A. F. Bunting was served Monday by Sheriff Cline of Ingham county with a warrant issued in conformance with an indictment handed down Saturday by the grand jury which has been investigating state affairs at Mason. Representative Bunting was chairman of the house committee on fisheries at the last session of the legislature, and the indictment 1b in connection with the expense account of the cominittee for an inspection trip in February, 1907. It is alleged that Anderson did not make all of the trip, but collected expenses for the entire Journey, and it is stated that the charge is that Representative Bunting put his O. K. on the voucher. Mr.» Bunting says that he only turned over to the clerk of the house the route of the committee and that he did not sign any vouchers.