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Embezzler Hodge Paroled to Granite City Job
Illinois former auditor Orville E Hodge, who looted 1.5 million, is released from Menard State Penitentiary after six and a half years. He returns to Granite City to work as a hardware store clerk, earning about 75 dollars weekly, and vows to contribute as a citizen. The parole followed a sentence cut by Gov. Otto Kerner.
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Menard State Penitentiary
Granite City
Ill
Hodge
Leonard Dayvid
William
Ifinois
Otto Kerner
Menard
Ross Randolph