Nevada State Prison Inmate Case Files
Ed Malley, George A. Cole & H.C. Clapp
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Ed Malley |
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George A. Cole |
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H.C. Clapp |
Ed Malley, George Cole, and H.C. Clapp were convicted of embezzlement and sent to the State Prison in Carson City. Ed Malley was the Nevada State Treasurer, George Cole was the Nevada State Controller, and H.C. Clapp was the cashier at the Carson Valley Bank in Carson City. They were all convicted in a case where $516,322.16 was missing from state funds in 1927. Malley, Cole, and Clapp took money from the State of Nevada to invest in the Signal Hill Oil Company between the years of 1919 and 1926. Malley had been State Treasurer since 1915, Cole had been State Controller from 1915 until he was not reelected in 1926. Clapp had recently been fired from the bank. Clapp turned state's evidence and went to prison in 1927. Malley and Cole's trial was a great sensation in 1928, two Nevada giants squared off, George Wingfield and Patrick McCarran. Malley, Cole, and Clapp were all released from the Nevada State Prison in 1931.
For more information see Pat McCarran : Political Boss of Nevada, by Jerome Edwards (Reno : University of Nevada Press, 1982), pgs. 33-42; also George Wingfield : Owner and Operator of Nevada, by C. Elizabeth Raymond, (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1992), pgs. 175-181.
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