CHARGES OF BRIBERY.
New York, March 22
A confession by Klein, who was sentenced to three years for bribery at Pittsburg, led to the indictment of forty present and former municipal councillors on charges ot bribery. In the majority of cases the sum involved did not exceed /20. Early last year seven Pittsburg councillors were ordered by President Roosevelt to be arrested, and six others disappeared, having been warned by a detective. Witnesses testified that many of the councillors had been bribed with ,£9OOO to secure the authorisation of a filtration plant. One witness swore that a councillor had hinted to him that there were only six members of the council who could not be bribed. Ramsay, a former bank president, was sentenced to 78 months’ imprisonment and fined ,£I9OO. Klein, a councillor, was sent to gaol for two years, and fined ,£2OO, and two former councillors were imprisoned for terms of eighteen mouths, and fined ,£IOO for complicity in frauds whereby the city was robbed of large sums of money. In addition, three citizens concerned in the scheme were sentenced to two years’ imprisonment, and fined ,£IOO each.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 818, 24 March 1910, Page 3
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189CHARGES OF BRIBERY. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 818, 24 March 1910, Page 3
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