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When $1,000,000 in bond forgeries were found in Kansas, when they were traced to Ronald Finney, son of Warren Wesley Finney, one of Emporia's leading citizens, when the elder Finney's banks were closed and when Tom Boyd, Kansas State Treasurer, was ousted no one at first suspected what a grapevine of financial crockery was about to be uncovered. Strong was Emporia's faith in the elder Finney's honesty. By last week all that had changed...
...court was accepted as evidence of the overpowering local influence of the Klebergs as rulers of the King Ranch. The lawyer is Thomas Hart Fisher, whose father was President Taft's Secretary of the Interior, himself a member of Chicago's eminent firm of Fisher, Boyden, Bell, Boyd & Marshall. His clients are two grandchildren of old Captain King named Atwood. These Chicago heirs have long been dissatisfied with the way their first cousin, Robert II, has run the ranch. Most serious of the many charges astute Mr. Fisher has brought are: 1) The trustees have turned the management...
Appointed Kansas State Treasurer to succeed Tom Boyd, being held for trial in connection with the forgery of municipal bonds by Ronald Tucker Finney, Emporia bond dealer & speculator (TIME, Aug. 21), was William Marion Jardine, retiring minister to Egypt, onetime (1925-29) Secretary of Agriculture...
...Kansas where a startling bond forgery was uncovered fortnight ago (TIME. Aug. 21), State Treasurer Tom Boyd was last week arrested. Fred Harris, special investigator for Governor Landon. declared that Treasury records had been juggled, that Ronald Finney, accused of "uttering" $1,000,000 in forged bonds, had supplied Boyd with $3,000 so that interest could be paid (to prevent discovery when forged coupons were presented...
Governor Landon, distrustful of his own State officers and political associates, put militia in charge of the State Treasury. Treasurer Boyd admitted having let Ronald Finney take away $150,000 of bonds deposited with the State. After a hearing that disclosed how Ronald Finney had entertained State employes, male and female, Alf Landon left with the remark, "I'm heartbroken...