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FORT DODGE POWERtty4i mFIRM IS INDICTEDtheWGt ACCUSED OF ILLEGAL USE OF e! FUNDS DURING CITYELECTION.Li6RAM0 JlfflT RETURNS 20 INDICTMENTS !J Claim Company Used Money to Pay I thlt;• I Election Worker*. Mott of eltjpi-'■Them Woman.It Dodge. la.. May 4 — (A*i—The * Dodge (laa and Electric comengni*I-Kapcny must appear In court to answerto 20 indicljnentjt returned yesterday by the Wehater county grand j Jury, charging illegal expenditure of I funds in the recent city electionv hereanY1tii-hN.01selei5.leiHithMleILCounty Attorney John Mulroney said the grand Jury had unearthed election payments of between 12,000 end $3,000 which it alleged were unlawful. No Individuals were named s j In the Indictments, but the company, h 111 convicted, is subject to a maximum fine of $1,000 on each of the _.20 counts, the attorney said. jJudge Sherwood A. Clock heard the report of the grand Jury, which i, i called more than 125 witnesses dur-h ing a three weeks’ Investigation. y Trial will probably take place next jt, fan.e I The complaints charged that the utility organization had spent “large sums to defeat John M. Schaupp. candidate for mayor on a platform„ wf lower electric light rates. Mayor -f\»» C. V. Findlay was re-elected. 1 j(lr The company’s expenditures in the tha- recent city election were mostly to payments to election workers. Coun- pi e ty Attorney John E. Mulroney said, se t- Payments to fifty workers, mostly lr , women. Mulroney said, were for f driving automob,les. telephoning and or n- j soliciting voters. The Indictments at also charged payments by the util- Mni® J______jin probably be the answer to the burn-s ing question a- to who rules In the ,n- q vprutvo mnrlam A mrfiiun f
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Dubuque Telegraph Herald And Times Journal
Dubuque, Iowa, US
Sun, May 05, 1929
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