"GRAFT" IN AMERICA.
SPECIAL PRAYERS FOR DELIVERANCE. DISHONEST BANKERS. By Cable.—Press Association. —Copyright New York, April 7. A grand jury at Pittsburg ordered the indictment of Frank Boft'stot. steel manufacturer and banker, on cnarges of conspiracy, also paying 52,500 dollars to Steward, a member of the City Council, for the purpose of securing the selection of the Farmers' Deposit, Second National, and Germania Banks as depositories for the city funds. Winter, president/ of the Working Men's Savings Trust Company, admit-, ted paying 20,000 dollars to Morris Finstern as a bribe to s'ecure the selection of his institution as the city depository, ; , , Owing to the ineffectual issue of attempts to check municipal "graft," Bishop Whitehead, of the Episcopal Church, Pittsburg, has ordered special prayers next Sunday for deliverance from political corruption.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 359, 9 April 1910, Page 5
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130"GRAFT" IN AMERICA. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 359, 9 April 1910, Page 5
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