Brother Mal

"Ten years in the penitentiary and a fine of $5,000."

Such was the sentence pronounced last week at Washington Court House, Ohio, upon aging, broken Mal S. Daugherty, brother of onetime Attorney General Harry Micajah Daugherty. Judge & jury had found him guilty of stealing funds from his own Ohio State Bank until it collapsed last year with heavy losses to 4,000 depositors. Even $90,000 which Brother Harry had poured into the bank could not save it from the effects of Brother Mal's juggled accounts and false statements.

Ten years ago Mal Daugherty could have had anything he wanted in Washington. The Ohio Gang was in the saddle. Brother Harry, its leader, ruled the White House from the Department of Justice. The Daugherty family rode high.

In 1924 the Senate lashed the Attorney General out of office while its investigators were following the trail of his gang's graft to the doors of Brother Mal's Ohio bank. Asked for his ledgers to trace the deposits inside, Brother Mal said he had burned them up. Long afterward the Supreme Court of the U. S. in a famed decision said his behavior was wrong and ordered him to tell the Senate all he knew about the Ohio Gang's fiscal affairs. But the Senate had ceased to care, never asked any more questions, let Brother Mal continue his own free way which last week led to the penitentiary.

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