MUNICIPAL " GRAFT."
■ 9 CHARGES OF CONSPIRACY. INDICTMENTS ORDERED. ALLEGED BRIBERY. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright (Received April 8, 10 a.m.) NEW YORK, 7th April. The grand jury at Pittsburg ordered an indictment of Frank Hoffstot, steel manufacturer and banker, on charges of ( onspiraey ; also of paying 52,50 v) dollars' to Stewart, a member of the City Council, for the purpose of securing the selection of the Farmers' Deposit, Second National, and Germania Banks, ac depositories for the city funds. Winter, president of the Working Men's Saving Trust Company, admitted paying 20,000 dollars to Morris Finstern as a bribe to secure the selection of his institution as the city depository. DELIVERANCE FROM POLITICAL CORRUPTION. WITH THAT OBJECT BISHOP ORDERS PRAYERS TO BE SAID, (Received April 8, 10 a.m.) NEW YORK, 7th April. Owing io the ineffectual check on municipal graft, Bishop White-head, of the Episcopal Church, Pittsburg, has ordered that on next Sunday special prayers shall be offered up for the deliverance of the city from political corruption.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 82, 8 April 1910, Page 7
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