The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-14
Sensational Charge Involving
State Printing Office.
Charged That Medical Questions
Were Sold for $175.
M'NEAL WROUGHT UP.
Will Try to Find Out What
There Is in Accusation.
Investigation at State Office
Reveals Nothing.

The sensational charge was made to-
day by DR.. +. P. Hatfield, secretary OF
the state board of medical registration
and Examination. that somebody con-
nected with the state printing plant
had sold for tho sum of SITS. advance
copies of the questions used by the
board in the examination held at Kan
sas City, Kan, last Monday.
Whoever purchased the advance
copies of the questions peddled them
out, 1t is claimed, at So apiece, to the
applicants for license to practice medi-
cine in the state of Kansas.
I. "A. McNeal, state printer, has been
holding an inquisition at the state
printing plant this morning to find, il
possible, some clue, and left this after
noon for Kansas City where he will cali
upon DIR. Hatfield for the proofs of the
charges which are made. Mr.. McNeal
does not believe, from the results of his
investigation thus far, that there is any
leak" at the state printing plant
Leaks similar to this in the ques-
t1ons for important state examina-
ttons. have occurred before, but they
nave been smothered and hushed up,
and no investigation of public nature
made. Mr.. McNeal says that the pres
ent affair will be probed to the bot
tom, and the truth will be made pub
lie if it is possible to get at it.
''Dr. Hatfield called me up this morn
ing over the long distance telephone"
said Mr.. McNeal, land informed me
that some of the people who took the
examination there at Kansas City
Monday for licenses to practice medi-
cine in Kansas had become possessed
of copies of the question prior to the
examination. He said that it was
claimed that the advance copies of the
questions were purchased here at the
state printing plant for $175, and then
sold to students for IS a copy.
II have made a careful investigat tion
of the way these examination questions
were handled here in the state printing
office, and 1 am convinced that no one
here is guilty of betraying the office
in this manner. The only way that /
can conceive of these questions getting
out of the Office, is by some
one stealing galley proof. MIR. Brown,
the foreman of the composing rooIn. IS
q very careful man. and do not think
there could be any leak there. The
questions were set up by hand by a
number of different compositors. The
copy was kept under lock and key
except when in use. The foreman of
copies which were printed, and burned
two spoiled copies and the tympa7
copy.
1.-The questions were wrapped up and
placed in the hands of the expressman
under the personal supervision of the
foreman of the bindery. 1t is possible
that some of the copies were abstracted
from the package after going into the
hands of the express company.
''If these copies were peddled around
at $5 each. I believe we can find out
from some of the students who had
them to sell, and get at the bottom Of
this thing. 1t does not seem reason
able that SITS should have been paid.
and then the questions retailed out for
So a copy, for it would take too many
sales to pay out.