MUNICIPAL CORRUPTION.
CITY COUNCILLORS BRIBED.
(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.)
(Peb Phess Association/) Received April 8, 9.25 a.m. NEW YORK, April 7.
The Grand Jury at Pitteburg ordered the indictment of Frank Hoffetot, steel manufacturer and banker, on charges of conspiracy and also of paying 52,500 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 as the deposition for the city funds. Winter, president of the Working Men's Savings Trust Company, admitted paying 20,000 dollars to Morris Finstern as a, bribe* to secure the selection of his inetitution as the city depository. Owing to the ineffectual issue of attempts to check municipal "graft" Bishop Whitehead, of the Episcopal Church at Pittsburg, has ordered special prayers nest Sunday for deliverance from political corruption.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 9185, Issue 9185, 8 April 1910, Page 5
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