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BONDSMEN 1-1-1
In L'llas, the state cracks down on bondsmen whose defendants have failed to show up in court for trial. Eighteen bondsmen stand to los e up to 18 th o usand do llarss "Y k 1ee!!. Sheriff Bill Decker says, "You know 1. would be here 4" His office accepts sureties from b ondsmen when a prisoner is released. As- sitant District Attorney Williamson reads the list of names of bondsmen called to court. 7he bondsmen give various excuses for not bringing their men tr-eiwT. One of them who takes the stand, W.M. Burns, says he doesn't know the where- 1abouts of some of the men he bonded, but knows one man is in prison in Texas. He is ord- ered to forfeit a total of 3 thousand dollars in bond s. Judge King also orders other forfeitures, and will hear. o cases next week. '##