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H++;,l‘+++++4,H4++i!+*H‘+,H'‘H,,H,++'H4’,H'4,lt;'lt;,'!,+,!,4!,4'+++*i*+lt;,v++++'!4+4,+,H+++,H,++*ii,,M,++^Chang-ed Conditions Are Disclosed *T♦As M.S. DaughertyGoes To♦+iH4++44f»44,M*4! 4,*i#++ ♦►♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦I I +*5*4* 4. ++++++++♦++++4*+4*4*+4*++4* *HhV!ockIuW-sl #Dfftfin V!lt;i t||lt;In rctiiIi1* IT* Til .ujicii coiirl,n It Ik denkfIff1 onlt; ComredI« tm m fJiidiKJ f j i IMiritist hi.stall \\fg! V I ffi t ih f a iomI'*1 S DaKIfr*fa tuleh antrHt4 fl1Tj nentbankandtand i'rednT* I Itin I n I c11 TI (FhiiStale* Bank, : r financial May. felltit# finamdal dcbrml financial affairs * and from whir! now. ton monthsthree milfeBi iiiin niinrAi.i 4 I Ii If thethe* aftei* *f#:*rtituf. *artain) mu n i onlyrging. ; t; ■ • ;;The defendant, M. S. Daughertyfor many years been regard* * flu* of th«» financial and bund and political leaders of tinin u n i t \ Mon day rn orn lugd the court* a bankrupt, to anr a charge that willd guilty, carry with itccrat ion In the stati for a term* of years.i? was an impressive* scene, not without if* pathos, that spectators, tv vvKpape* import* rn and la wyers look HI upon. One could almost tefise the presence in court of! tin nu n of yesteryears who par*j fit ipated in court proceedings when j the primmer at the bar was in the {heyday of his power and in the* !ftill vigor of his manhood. One IId not avoid comparing the?INation-wide attention is focused on the trial of .Mai S. Daugherty, former president ot the Ohio Statlt;- Bank, at Washington Court j Hou O, beginning there Feb. It. on one of 17 indictments, charg-j ing him with mishandling funds of the hank and other offenses in1 connection with his management. Biner- the first indictments were5 returned Daugherty has been free under 140,000 bond signed by his aged mother and his brother. Harry M Daugherty, former F. S. at-torm y general. Photos are of Daugherty, his home, which he abandon*! after becoming a bankrupt, and court houseconscenes and actors of other days, inthose other legal dramas and trag- i bar, not engaged in the trial, spec-f newspaper edies that have made the old court tators filling every available seat, room famous, with the scene Mon-j crowding the doorways seeking ad-day morning. I)eath and age and | mission. Tlie respectful tones of changing conditions had taken ' the attorney- as they addressed the their toll. There are new actors, court, the jurors as they come in, for the most part, in the present one by one, to be interrogated as drama, but tblt;* grim settings are to their qualifications, the admin-the same as they have been thru istering of the oath “truthfully an-the years. Justice still presides in swer the occasional shuffling ofsolemn dignit ■ and an awe iuspir- feet, the shifting about in chairs,mg Atmosphere* of determined pur-j coughing h\f a nervous spectator,pose in sensed as the actors take | not much noise anywhere else but.their places prepared to play their j in the solemn hush of the court*Jpart, room, deafening is the preliminaryAbout them, much as stage sup-1 scene as the drama began.prnunierarles. are members of the At their allotted places are the*reporters preparing their pen portraits of the scene so that all the reading public may j know what is being done in a trial' which promises to unroll on the film of evidence one of the most amazing financial careers in thej community's history and to maker clear much that has, heretofore been mystery, to reveal as fact, what has, heretofore, been only suspicion.For weal or woe the defendant must accept the outcome. The machinery of the law is in motionwhile defendant and public alike will follow through to the finale.i.**
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Washington C H Herald
Washington Court House, Ohio, US
Mon, Feb 09, 1931
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