CIVIC CORRUPTION
ALLEGATIONS IN NEW YORK. MAYOR'S DISMISSAL DEMANDED. NEW YORK, June 9. Mr Sam Seabury, the white-haired judge and investigator, who has' for mouths been chasing “grafters,’'' crowned hi? enquiry to-day by formally demanding the removal of tho Mayor of New York (Mr James Walkei, from office. During his two days on the witncsi. stand, 'the redoubtable “Jimmy" fenced and tried to explain away cash m excess of £IOO,OOO that found its way into the family safe. To-day Judge Seabury announced that he. had secured definite evidence that the 'Mayor held shares in a concern •which participates in civic contracts. He contends that the my-'terious and missing Russel Sherwood was really the Mayor’s Man Friday, though the Mayor disavows any interest in Sherwood >s bank deposits of £250,000 during the, past three years. •Sherwood paid more than £16,000 to the famous “unnamed person” who is popularly supposed to be th 6 actress, Betty Compton, who was evidently “picking” somebody for about £2OO a week;
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Hokitika Guardian, 11 June 1932, Page 2
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165CIVIC CORRUPTION Hokitika Guardian, 11 June 1932, Page 2
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