The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-03-23
'ttsburg Graft Cases Are
,ti|I Being Aired In Sen
satiOna| Confessions
|OHN I. KLEIN TELLS OF
BUYING MEN CHEAPLY
artrict Attorney VIII Not Give I'M
nunify to the Bribe Giyers if They
4 DO Not Come Forward and
Confess Nisdeeds

f zPittsburg. March 22.-Nine more former
n1on5ers of councils, before the district
Sfforney. today confessed to their guilt
8 IL 'acreriing money for their votes, while
paonbers of the municipal bodies, ana
z3fien before Judge R. S. Fraser received
Heir immunity baths in the way of sus-
|Itnded senter ces.
zkNhen the grand jury adjourned for the
cay. just before o'clock, 1t had returned
no ipdiolments although it had listened
Ter hours to developments IN the bribery
ecanda', even more sensational than de-
sxcopad yesterday. Men admitted selling
fleir honor for from 500 upward
81 John t. Klein was before the grand jury
the greater part of the day, and continued
his narrative of councilmanic graft.
Klein recounted some of his experiences
3ri handing out the money to councilmen.
"There was one fellow. he said. who
WAS a daisy.Na a regular shylock for the
doug'. In theN South Seventh street bus
Siness I handed him ss1. He looked at me
4for 4 few minutes and then yelled like
Ia stuck pig for the extra 10 cents. You
{know si 10 was the stahdardeprice in that
Edsar Well, he got the 10 cents all
fright"
e. District Attorney Blakefy, as soon as the
tbrike-takers have been rounded up, Will
70 after the bribe-givers. These are said
10 he bank officials of institutions whose
naipes have never heretofore been
broaehed ii. connection with the graft of
The lest two years.
re "tir- has been passed to these
Sank men that they may come under the
..irnmunity'' extended by the district at
torney but as they have thus far failed
to avail themselves of the opportunity
II is reported that some bombshells Will
be dropped into the social construction OF
Pittsburg when county detectives turn
the money changers" out of their own
s.tcrnples" and bring them before the bar
of justice
with all that has thus far been dis
closed In this gigantic municipal graft
conspiracy, there is a feeling that what
has beer thus far accomplished Is but
scratching of the surface What one
hour may develop no one is able to fore
see Even the district attorney Is frank
In bis expression that he Cant tell what
will happen"
Twenty have thus far confessed, 81
have been indicted but have not yet
confessed. and 16 have been implicated
but have not yet been indicted. 1t
Is said at the district attorneys Of
fee that before the grand jury is dis
missed fully 100 persons will be I'M
II Gated. These will include not only
se bribed, but the bribers.
ssterday and today Klein, still In
district attorneys office, worked
fyxvip 10 paf
ii OF Common Council William Brand
5come forward and tell his story.
H. Brand was to have gone to the PEN
stentiary but his Incarceration was de-
ferred because of the illness of
daughter, and partly in the hope that
| he would confess. Klein also tele-
rh oned Joseph c. Wasson, who entered
| she penitentiary Monday. As result
1yasson, too, will join the band of PEN
|stents.
Some of the stories told by the con-
|Sessing councilmen were interesting and
every man in the crowded court room
|1lung on every word as though what
| Re heard was something dearly pre-
Icious.
The crowd could not suppress laugh
when william Frederick testified that
he had carried 800 around in his hip
Rocket a week before he knew 1t was
Ethere. He said 1t had been placed in
Ihis pocket during the councilmanic ball
game at Neville Island in July, 1908.
Councilman Fred Herring told how
Klein met him and former council
man named Morrison after a council
injecting in July, 1908. He said that
Klein handed Mr.. Morrison an enve-
.1ope containing a slip of names and
IS600.
"This is something for the boys; you
give 1t out. Morrison" Klein is al
I1eged to have said.
Morrison. according to Herring,
dreaded that he was too lame and was
consequently unable to deliver the
goods. Herring hen admitted that he
engincered the distribution. Each man
lot s1Or