The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-02-24

HIS frauu lmpelS tHe COHNlCllol
tlat he was aided from within the
auditors office during two admins
trations, either through criminal;ty
or gross negligence, and was aided
frcm without to dispose of the war
rants when issued.
High Officials Implicated.
This confession explaining this
protection implicated several high or
fic!als and the matter was so serious
rs to require a full investigation h
ascertain if there were corroborating
evidence of his story. Should it de-
vclop that his explanation of the pro
lection he received is true, it would
be more to the best interests OF the
state to punish the heads of the de-
pdrtments who were engaging in
these crimes than to send to the pen
itentiarty one lone warrant clerk and
permit the heads to escape.
Attorney General West denies that
he has granted McBrine any immun-
ity, but indicates plainly that he will
Go so if McBrine's confession turns
out to be true and the men higher
up caught through his turning
states evidence
The attorney general says: 81 have
granted him no immunity. / shall
giant Lin none unless his confession
il corroborated by sufficient evi-
dence to show its truth"
The attorney general objects to be-
ing pressed into any hasty conclus-
ion of the case. He points out that
it took sixteen months to locate Nc
Brine and get him back to Oklahoma.
and that there has been only seven
ty-five days since his return in which
to investigate his confession, and in
this confession the attorney general
indicates that he has been seriously
hampered by the attitude of the for.
mer state auditor, Leo Meyer. Rec
ords of the auditors office only be-
came freely accessible after Meyers
resignation" he says.
Employe Aids West.
The attorney general gives in de-
tail a history of how, by the assist
al ce of r. C. Cain, an employe of the
auditors office, under Leo Meyer,
he finally got in touch with McBrine,
of sending him money to New York,
of meeting him at Monet, Mo-, OF
bril- ging him secretly into Guthrie,
of how an Oklahoma City newspaper
rlan learned of McBrines return and
printed the story, of the arrest and
release of Charles Renfro as the
ferce and other matters with which
the public is familiar.
The attorney general denies that
he has used McBrine to spy upon
,any siate official" such state
ments," he says, ARE conceived in
malice and are utterly without truth.
He has never been in my employ"
OF the $4,000 of bogus warrants
issued during the last months of the
administration Of State Auditor NJ.
E. Trapp, first auditor the attorney
general says. But when these war
rants, their stubs and their claims
are considered, at least the suspicion
arise sthat protection must have
been afforded McBrine from the in
side, either Intentionally or through
negligence, or it would not have been
possible for him to have put forth
this paper with the consistency, con
tiluity and regularity shown
Changed His Methods.
AS to the sixteen bogus warrants,
aggregating s14,355 issued by Nc
Brine from January 27, 1911, to Feb
ruary q, same year, under the first
months of the administration of Leo
Meyer as second state auditor, the
attorney general says: 1T appears
that these were issued upon warrants
taken from an old warrant book. A
comparison would not show the same
kind of fraud between the warrants
issued in Mr.. Traps term and those
in Mr.. Meyers term. Perhaps in
this case there was nothing inside
the office but simply gross neglect"