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LINDE, ON EXAMINATION OF GRANT YOUMAN'S BRINGS OUT SOME MATERIAL TESTIMONY RELATIVE TO THE ALLEGED "LEGALIZED BANK ROBBERY." -COMPLAINANT WON'T ANSWER Carefully Guards Against All Replies That Might Tend to Incriminate Him. Attorney General Linde put some searching questions to Grant Youmans, former president of the Savings and Deposit Bank of Minot during the process of the legislative investigation into the booklet known as "Legalized Bank Robbery". The hearing was held in Secretary of State Thomas Hall's office and a large crowd attended. A Reiteration. The investigating committee is composed of Representatives Haraldson and Purcell and Senator McGray. Mr. Youman's testimony was a reiteration of the story told in his confessions entitled "Legalized Bank Robbery." He charged Bank Examiner Severtson with closing his bank up arbitrarily after making a demand that $48,000 be raised to replace the impairment of the bank's assets through excessive loans. He told in detail all conversation between himself and the bank examiner and related that $20,000 was first demanded but that the next day, Mr. Severtson demanded $48,000 and in default of this closed the bank. Claims He Was Tricked. Later Mr. Youman testified Mr. Severtson allowed the men now running the bank under the name of the "First International bank" to take over the institution by supplying $20,400 Tracey Bangs appeared for Mr. (Continued on
