The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-07-29
NINE DETROIT
COUNC|LMEN
ARE ARRESTED
SOLD VOTES TO RAILROADS
DETECTIVES MARKED
MONEY; THEY BIT

Detroit. Mich. Iuly -S-Eight al
termen and The secretary oil eoin,
mon council committee we're placed
9nder arrest this afternoon on chars
las of accepting bribes and eonsWsa'
e. 10 accept bFlbe Tor their votes
and influence in the passing loi
measure affecting eity pro erty re
Gently transferred TO the Naoa5h
re ilroad. At least six other arrests
o. aldermen are eV.ected momentaF-
IAy.
III is alleged SsWH passed hands
sums OF from sion to Sl.0so. The
bribery was consnmated and the ar
; ests accomplished under the person
al supervision OF Detective William
T. Burns.
me Arrested Officials.
The officials already arrested are:
Thomas Gilman president OF the
council, who is alleged 10 have re-
lceNed $1,000.
+ r. sehrelter. Jr.. secretary OF
ouneu committees and also secre-
tary OF the American League Of Nun
Ia.ipaiities. who is charged with con-
Isliracy TO brI5e and agreeing TO ac-
cept $500
Alderman Joseph L. Theison, said
10 have accepted $500
Alderman Martin J Ostrowski, al
ored TO have received $500,
Alderman Patrick OiBrien. cons
rscy.
Alderman ouis Tossy, said TO have
received $500.
Alderman Frank J. Mason. Aid T.
man Louis Broso and Alderman
Ieimel. the last three being charged
with accepting 500 each.
Alderman Gilman has long been
known in city politics as Honest
/ Tom When arrested this afternoon
il is said he turned over $l.080 and
/ riade complete confession. Schrtlt-
Ter who. it is declared by the author
! lities. engineered the affair. was ar
+ ested in his office He had not re-
lceiyed any money but the officers
say that he went TO the office of the
detectives. who We're acting under
the guise of Wabash railroad officials
ITO get money and discovered the Of
f:cers who had just arrested Gilman.
/ Il is said that he also made state
lnent 10 the officers.
! The detectives say that they caught
their men not only with marked mon
G, but BY telephone testimony and
Topographic records.
The investigation which eliminated
in the arrests today has been going
since February, when rumors OF
sraft in the couneilmanic body be-
gan to assume serious proportions.
Mayor William b. Thompson sought
1.-THE services OF detectives and An
drew RI. Green prominent manufac-
turer agreed 10 finance the inquiry.
/ Aldermen Suddenly Change Tactics.
! Soon after the Investigation was
| begun the Wabash railroad applied
for the closing of a Detroit street on
i tie grounds that it wanted to ere
la warehouse and otherwise increase
rs shipping facilities The appliea'
ton was held up in the council for
La time Then suddenly the council
|granted the application by vote OF
several members who had previous
iiy opposed the measure.
Meanwhile a Burns operative. who
represented himself as a land agent
,or the Wabash. had been at work.
He had entered according to the
tharges. into negotiations with the
secretary of the common council com
mittee.
Eventually il was decided. it is al
legged. that several who had been op-
lposing the street measure would
withdraw their opposition for S1oe
each Some Of the aldermen. how
lever. are said TO have held out for
more. It was then agreed that dit
lterent amounts would, If necessary,
be allowed. and YESTERDAY the alder
men began to draw their money. The
: last person to receive his share, it is
dtclared, was Gilman.
/, This il the first exposure OF its kind
itaat has ever been made in the com
Iron council OF Detroit The arrest
OF Tom Gilman. the council leader
is most commented lreon. II is said
mat he hal already filed his petition
for nomination for MAYOR in the fall
election
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