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State Review Of Evidence Against Douglases And Three Others Near End Progressing steadily through technical details, prelimihearings of officials and others nary named state charges in connection with the failed Canadian Valley bank Asher well under way the peace court of Tully Darden Monday Starting 10 o'clock Monday morning after nearly Scott Ferris. state the legal wheels in by calling James M. Fitz, banking department official, the witness stand. Fitz Testifies Fitz. aided department officials checked small mountain of documentary evidence nearby, testified throughout the morning. his questioning Ferris attempted trace the gress an alleged accommodation note between the Shawnee National bank and Asher institution, both which failed No.ember 14 with the collapse of the Dauglas chain. Douglas Newton Douglas were specifically named in nection the note, which was by Click, on charges of signed embezzlement. Evidence concerning the alleged misapplication $1,500 from note purported signed Massad allegedly converted the use Douglas, Newton Massad, also brought out by Ferris through questioning of Fitz. Hearing Near End It evidence by late Monday afternoon that the review dence nearing an end. All but was the six charges had been one viewed and was possible that the hearing might completed by an session Monday night. Defendants in to Newton Douglas, and Massad. are Walker and Ross Walker. implicated in an alleged accommodation note.