Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1910-03-23
Grating PittSburg CounciImen
Rush Into Court Confess
Their Sins and Receive SuS-
pended Sentences,
SHAKE UP PROMISED IN
SMOKY CITY SOCIETY
Men Prominent in Business
World Admit Selling Their
Honor Some for Price as Low
as Fifty Dollars,
Iny MofnIns Joarnal sneelaI I.s.ss wIrel

lBy Morning journal Special Iss,es wIrel
Pittshurg March g. Nine more
members Of councils. before the dis
tiict attorney today confessed their
guilt Ia accepting money for their
votes while members of thu munici-
PAL bodies, ana before Judge Fraser
received their immunity baths in the
way of IA suspended sentence.
when the grand jury adjourned
for the das Just before 3 o'clock IL
bad returned no indictments although
il had listened Tor hours to develop
more sensational than those brought
out yesterday Men admitted selling
thci honor for from s5O.oQ upwards
John f. Klein vas hcfore The grand
iury Ire greuter part af the day and
continued his narrative Of council
manic graft Klein recnuntod some Of
his experiences In handing out the
money to the counciimen.
There was one fellow Klein said.
who Was a daisy Il regular shyiock
tor the dongh IN the south seventh
street business ! handed him SNl 90.
He looked at me iof few minutes
and then yelled like stuck pig for
tln extra tes cents You NnOW xSllU
WAS Che standard price Ia that deal.
Nell hr got the ten cents All right
District Attorney BlaNeley as soon
as the cuuncilmen hrlhetakers had
been rounded up. viii 60 after the
bribe givers. These arc said TO be
bank officials. of Institutions whose
nomes have never heretofore been
mentioned in connection with the
graft probe Of the last two years
The TIP" has been passed to these
bank men that they may come under
the Immunity extended by the dis
trict attorney bat as they have thus
tar failed to avail themselves uf the
II Is reported thai some
bonn bshells VIII be dropped into the
social structure OF Pittsburg when
county detectives turn the money
changers ont ut "thet own temples
ana bring them before the bar of JUS
tee.
with all that has thus far been dis
closed IN this gigantic municipal graft
conspiracy, there is feeling that
what has Been accomplished thus Tar
is but a scratching Of the surface.
w hat one hour may develop, no one
is able to foresce. Even the district
attorney Is frank IN his expression
that ne cant tell what viii happen
Twenty have thus lar confessed.
hrty-seVen have been indicted but
have not yet confessed and sixteen
awe been implicated but have not set
,een indicted II is said az the dis
rict attorneys ofice THAI before the
grand jury is dismissed fully 100 pet-
sons win be Implicated This VIII in-
,lude not only the bribed but the
llibers.
yesterday and today Klein, still IN
he district attorneys office, worked
Inc telephone Over-time trying to get
William Brand. former president ol
he common council TO come forward
ana ten his story Brand was to haNs
gone to The penitentary but his incar~
iation WAS deferred partly because of
he illness on bis daughter aud partls
n the hope that he would confess
Klein also tclephoned Joseph g.
Nasson Who entered the pcnltentlary
Monday. Mussou WAS permitted 9"
Inswer the telephone As a result
Nasson viii join the band of pen'-
cnts.
THE. crowd could not suppress q
augh when William Frederick fo'
hat hp carried Xi00 around in his
lip pocket tor "a week before he kncH
was there He said IL had ne"n
llacrd in hs pocket during the coun-
ilmanic b,tl game at Navi'lr lsland
a Jliy. 1qoN.