MAYOR IN PRISON
BREACH OF LIQUOR LAWS
GOVERNS CITY PROM CELL. CAUSES CIVIC STRIFE. BY CABLE-PRESS ABBOCIATIOX-COPYRIGHT Received 9.50 a.m. to-day. NEW YORK, Feb. 13. At Edge water, New Jersey, arrangements are being made for the Mayor iMr Henry Wisliel), who was sentenced to a year’s imprisonment in connection with rum running, to continue to govern the city from his cell wi the Atlanta penitentiary. A great deal of feeling was stirred when Wishel was found guilty, and a petition, signed by all the city’s school children, induced the judge to reduce the sentence from two to one year. •The case, which involved the chief of police, who was also found guilty and sentenced to a similar term, has divided the city into two _ camps, Women declaring that they will petition the Governor to unseat the Mayor, while the latter’s resignation, it is believed, will not be accepted by the hoard of aldermen. \
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 14 February 1927, Page 5
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153MAYOR IN PRISON Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 14 February 1927, Page 5
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