CORRUPTION IN AMERICA.
CHARGES OF BLACKMAIL.
Received 4.55 p.m., Nov. 25. PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT New York, Nov. 24. A Grand Jury of the State of California indicted Eugene Schmitz, a Laborite, Mayor of San Francisco, and Abe Ruef, a San Francisco “boss,” on charges of extortion. Schmitz was charged with obtaining sums of two hundred and three hundred pounds sterling by threats of withdrawal of saloon keepers’ licenses. Schmitz, who in 1904 wa3 an orchestra player, is now worth half a million sterling. The municipal authorities were accused of owning an unspeakable den, yielding profits for one year of one hundred thousand pounds sterling, the proprietors of other dens having been ousted in order to destroy competition.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1942, 26 November 1906, Page 2
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