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TWO BANKERS ARE HEADED FOR PEN ENTER PLEAS OF GUILTY TO FORGERY AND FAILURE TO MAKE PROPER REPORTS. Lincoln, Neb., Sept. 21-Two more Nebraska bankers are headed for the state penitentiary. They'are L. E. Cooper, cashier of the Waco State bank, and Floyd R. Ward, vice president of the Farmers' State bank of Benedict. Both pleaded guilty before Judge Corcoran of the distriet court at York Saturday. Cooper admitted forging two notes and was sentenced to three years in the Nebraska prison on each of the two counts. Ward pleaded guilty to making a false report to the state banking department and also to the forgery of a note. He was given five years on the first charge and two years on the second. L. E. Cooper formerly lived at St. Joseph, Mo. On Memorial day somebody shot through the window of his bank at Waco in an effort to hit an of Jeff Davis. Cooper had been requested to take the picture down and had refused. He has a wife and two children. He pleaded guilty to the forgery of a note for $1,500 bearing the namewof William Bloom and another note for $2,500 bearing the name of William Schlecte, both dated July 18. It was alleged that Cooper was hard pressed for money because of high living. The bank was closed Saturday by the state n banking board. The deposits are : $78,000 and the loans $125,000. : Floyd R. Ward, of Benedict, for, merly lived at Pierce. He has a wife / and three children. He confessed n to forging a note for $3,800 béaring the name of O. S. Jeffery and e placing it in the bank. He further t admitted making a false report to the Nebraska banking board by t omitting a deposit of $40,000 made 8 by Jeffery and put in the bank to y tide it over. Judge Corcoran has ap. pointed C. H. Kolling, a bank of d York, as receiver for the Benedict institution. This was made on the S recommendation of bankers of the r district.
