The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1924-04-04
O'GRADY ARRESTED
ON NINE COMPLAINTS
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It is said that County Attorney
Erickson has about twenty charges
more In the process of being drawn
by others who have paid money to
Mr.. OGrady and who have not re-
celVed the proper receipts, which in
formations will be filed directly in
the district court. The County At
tomey and the Sheriff and the Trea-
surer have a number of cancelled
checks endorsed by O'Grady and
cashed. the money for which has never
been turned over to the county trea-
Surer. Mr.. O'Grady of course never
at any time had the authority to
endorse any check made payable to
sheridan county. Only the Treasur-
er has such authority
Tom Ldedahl and Siur T. KlOvstad
both OF whom worked under O'Gradv
collecting money under his direc-
ZION have been assisting the officers
IN gathering the necessary data CON
Gerhlng the peculatiOns of O'Grady.
IL IS SAID that several elevators have
turned IN several grain checks that
O'Grady had cashed and evidently an
prOpriated the money.
Stealing Going on Since July
1t seems that the stealing bvO'-
Grady has been going on since early
IN July when Quinn was succeeded as
seed grain collector by O'Gradv. It
Is SAID that Quinn quit the Clerk &
recorders office because of the ones
tlOnable work of O'Grady. VIM
Newton, who succeeded him. oot
next to activities that looked crooked
to him and quit that office at the fret
opportunity when he became denutv
sheriff. He told his friends what he
and when the Public Ev-
was here in the fall, Ole Moe
called the attention of those gentle
men TO the fact that things looked
suspicious and asked them to make a,
thorough examination of the seed
grain collections. asking them t.
write a letter to each note giver
requesting a report of all payments.
Inc PuolIc Examiners, probably be-
cause O'Grady is Gov Dixon's ixer
n Sheridan county, did not look at
NE seed grain records at all. 1t is
claimed that O'Grady took these Of
lcers to a couple of parties at his
home and the Examiners forgot All /
ABOUT the seed grain books.
Commissioner Lundeen proposed
alter to the Board of County Com
nlssloners that the seed grain books /
)e put IN the hands of the co1ntv I
treasurer, but it seems that the seed +
cram law provides that the collec- I
IONS are a part of the duties of the
Jerk q Recorder, so the matter was
lropped
Mr.. O'Grady will not come up for
RAJ or hearing now until the next
erm Oh district court. Because of
ms It Will be impossible to get the
violence into the records until that
me. Mr.. O'Grady is reported to
ave given out that the whole matter
a hoax but he avoided a hearing.
Since his arrest, Mr.. O'Gradv has
cen doing lot of work on the seed
ram books, having worked on them
II day Sunday and several DAYS this
'eek. This is the first time that he
as ever. touched the books before.
since ne was arrested last Satur-
ay, MT. OGrady has been in almost
ohSJant conference with DR.. Stor-
an, Ray Lang, Leo Zeidler and Sen.
larch. 1t is rumored on the street
lat these gentlemen are making a
.fenuous effort to raise the money.
ay the county and thus save the
ian. II possible, who has been such
friend to them during the past sew
raj months.