Brought to Their Knees.

Opunake Times, Volume XXX, Issue 1647, 21 June 1910, Page 4

Brought to Their Knees.

!The astounding disclosures of wholesale corruption in the New York Legislature at Albany have been sud- .' denly dwarfed by the events at Pittsburg, where a judicial investigation into municipal dishonesty has produced a singularly dramatic situation. Mr John Klein, the former councillor, who was sentenced to three years' imprisonment on charges of bribery, has fulfilled his threat to "pull the

props out and let the sky fall," because his fellow councillors failed to

provide £l2 a week for his wife and children during his imprisonment. Ai a result a grand jury has indicted sixty councillors. The judge, before the list of indictments was published, gave the councillors twenty-four hours grace in whioh to confess their eins and gain immunity. Since then the Court has been filled with a succession of trembling, white-faced men bearing hitherto honored names, who have confessed to receiving bribes. One wealthy citizen went on his knees before the judge. Sixteen councillors so far have voluntarily confessed, and have agreed to resign their seats on the Council if sentence is suspended.