DEMAND FOR REMOVAL.
"JIMMY" WALKER AND GRAFT. NEW YORK, June 2. Mr. Sam Seabury, the white-haired judge and investigator, who has for months been chasing "grafters," crowned his inquiry by formally demanding the removal of the Mayor of New York (Mr. James Walker) from office. During his two days on the witness stand, the redoubtable "Jimmy" fenced and tried to explain away cash in excess of £100,000 that found its way into the family safe.
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 mysterious and missing Eussel 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 the actress, Betty Compton, who was evidently "picking" somebody for about £200 a week.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 134, 8 June 1932, Page 7
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159DEMAND FOR REMOVAL. Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 134, 8 June 1932, Page 7
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