The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-10-01
CRAFT AB0UNDS
IN MILWAUKEE,
President of Common Council of the
City Indicted.
OTHERS ALSO IN THE NET
STARTLING REPORT MADE BY
GRAND JURY.
OTHERS ALSO IN THE NET

Milwaukee, stp. 3O.-Cornelius Cor
coran, president of the common coun-
Gil of this city, together with a former
alderman and two private citizens.
were indicted by the grand jury in its
final sitting. which ended tonight at 10
o'clock. Corcoran, in the capias issued
for his arrest, is charged with selling
hay and oats to the city, which is
violation of city statute, which states
that no oficeholder shall enter into a
contract to sell goods of any KIND 10
the city. Frank c. KlOde, president or
a local furniture company which sOid
furniture to the county is indicted on
a charge of perjury. William Murphy,
a former alderman, is charged with bril-
berry and Fred c. Schultze, a newspa-
per reporter, with bribery. The grand
Jury recommends the calling OF grand
iuries periodically. The total result OF
the jurys work was l5I indictments
involving 80 persons.
Record is Black.
In its report on the labors of the
summer the grand jury took occasion
TO say that their investigation had de-
AElODEQ-
fairs-"Vice and crime regularly or
ganized aud favored"
I'VE doubt" continued the report,
IF one citizen of 1000 knows the cor
rupt way in which the affairs OF this
community have been conducted, Ihe
effort fully to expose these conditions
has been opposed by corrupt conditions
and the systematic resistance OF power
full influences apparently syndicated 10
conceal the truth and encourage crime.
We have been hampered by the efforts
of witnesses to conceal the facts, and III
many of these instances II has been ap-
parent that the witness was testifyfhs
falsely. Our observations regarding the
vice and crime of perjury is such that
we must characterize ii nothing snort
of outrageous
Grating in Sheriff's office.
The report states that the admins
tration OF the sheriff's Office during the
six years has been investigated ana
that il has been found that after the
office was placed on a salary basis d
system Of fee taking grew up at Yarl-
anCe with the meaning of the statute
II recommends that this fee taking be
still further scrutiniZed and that me
county board take steps TO stop this
the sheriffs office profits from these
fees are mentioned. Bribery. the re-
port says. is an every day affair. Coun-
" offices should be investigated. The
county clerk should not get fees, but
does, and the practice should be stopped
at once.
The recent raid upon gambling houses
and prOseCtiOn of the keepers and IN
mates thereof by the district attorney S
office. disclOses that in the city Of Mill
Waukee there have been for years at
least regularly equipped, wide-open
gam bling houses The investigation
discloses, the report says, that the
eight gambling houses raided were per-
mitted in the very heart of the city
and without interference, to conduct
common games of faro, roulette. craps
and poker. while other gamblers. Who
sought to start such games IN their
places of business. were promptly RAID
ed by the police. The jury's report
says that since the starting of the in
vestigation of affairs i'm county and
city in 1903, there has been noticeable
decline in grating" and other eor-
TuptiOn.