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ORDERLY DAY OUSTER CASE Nothing Damaging Erought Out Against Wilson Today. Lengthy correspondence in the Salina bank case was introduced today in support of the state's ouster suit against Walter E. Wilson, state bank commissioner. The letters dealt almost entirely with work of examiners, the bank commissioner and persons in touch with the bank's affairs. They generally indicated much activity on the part of Commissioner Wilson and his assistants in collecting on the bank's securities and in closing up the affairs of the defunct Kansas State bank. None of the testimony before J. M. Challis, commissioner for the supreme court, was regarded as especially damaging to Wilson. The entire morning was spent in the reading of letters and copies of letters. It was a quiet, orderly half-day session. Attorneys from the attorney general's office seemed satisfied with their progress. Attorneys for Wilson made no protest against admittance of the testimony. Failure of Attorney General Hopkins to produce damaging testimony against Wilson when Frank Sponable testified at the opening of the hearing was regarded by attendants as the most important feature of the case to date. Sponable was expected to testify that coercion was used in the sale of Bank Holding Corporation stock and that promises of use of confidential state information were made to prospective investors. There was nothing in Sponable's testimony to support such charges. Col. Fred Fitzpatrick, receiver for the Salina bank, may be called to the witness stand late this afternoon.