PITTSBURG SCANDAL

Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 107, 7 May 1909, Page 7

PITTSBURG SCANDAL

MUNICIPAL "GRAFT." EXEMPLARY SENTENCES IMPOSED. By Teleeroph.^-Prcst Association.— Copyright NEW YORK, 6th May. In connection with the "graft" trials at Pittsburg, Ramsay, a former bank president, was sentenced to seventy- • eight months' imprisonment and ordered •to pay a fine of 5000 dollars (£1000) on a charge of bribery. Klein, a municipal v councillor, was sent to gaol for two yoars and fined 1000 ! • dollars (£200), and two former council- , ''lors were- imprisoned for terms of eighteen months and fined 500 dollars : '(£100), for complicity in frauds by i which the city was robbed of large sums 1 of money. i Three citizens concerned in the scheme ] were sentenced to two years' imprison- : paent and fined 500 dollars each. ' < The charges were in connection with ' the affairs of the Pittsburg municipal- ! rity. Seven councillors were ordered by I President Roosevelt to be arrested, and ' six others disappeared, having been : warned by a detective, who was subse- j quently dismissed. Witnesses testified ' ! that sixty councillors were bribed with i 45,000 dollars (£9000) to secure the i 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. One councillor was detected \ by strategy, lie received in a hotel a ; bribe in connection with a wood-paving undertaking. A flashlight photograph l was taken, showing him in the act of, ' receiving the bribe. An investigation \ into the affairs of the German National I E Bank discovered that 17,500 dollars ( \ (£35,000) had been paid to members of j 'the Finance Committee of the council to ' .secure the transfer to the bank of the l city's deposits. '.

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