The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-13
Eighteen Members of the De-
trOit Municipal Council
Charged With Taking Brides
or Promising to Do So.
HELD UP WABASH RAILROAD
Which Wanted a Street Closed
for Its Benefit.
Detective Posed as an Agent of
the Company.

Detroit, Aug. 13.-MaIedictions min
gled with threats and counter charges
were heaped upon Edward Schreiter,
deposed clerk of common councils
committee by the accused offici1ls
when Schreiter appeared in police
court today with Is aldermen for a re-
arraignmeut on bribery charges pre-
ferred in connection With the wabash
street closing deal. His confession in
volving himself and the aldermen now
under arrest was the principal topic
of conversation around the court
house. You dirty dog" said Alder
man Skrzycki, one of the accused,
when he noticed Schreiter in the en-
trance to the court room. How could
You say that I ever exchanged words
with you in regard to the Wabash
deal? You know it is false. When
you take a mans honor away from
him you may as well take his life
Schreiter made no answer but start
ed to go away.
YOU dirty dog" again yelled
the police court clerks office. The
first person he met was Alderman
O'Brien, and one of the accused.
What you lack is a little more hair
and then you would really be dog"
said O'Brien, shaking his fist i'll
began to hurl imprecations at the de-
posed clerk Prosecuting Attorney Hugh
Shepperd and his assistant seized
Schreiter by the arms and directed HIM
into the private office of another court
official and the door was shut in the
face of the aldermen and spectators
who had crowded around. Each of the
Is aldermen declared that Schreiter's
confession was false.
Nine Got the Money.
All OF the aldermen are charged
with having been implicated in a plot
10 force the Wabash railroad to pay
them various sums for their influence
i'll putting through the council a reso-
luton closing street for the benefit
of the railroad. n
It is alleged that nine Aldermen ac-
tually received bribes not. however,
from a railroad official but from d
detective who posed as such. The nine
others, it is charged, agreed to accept
certain sums but failed to collect"
at an appointed time.
The nine aldermen arrested last
Friday on charges of accepting bribes
but for whom no formal warrants
have been issued as yet are:
David Rosenthal and A. A. Daniel,
Fifth ward.
Louis Tossy and Martin Ostrowsky,
Ninth ward.
Joseph L. Theisen, Eleventh ward.
Louis Brozo, Thirteenth ward.
Andrew J. Walsh and Frank ]. Ma
son, Fourteenth ward.
Thomas z. Gilman, president of
council Eighteenth ward.
Warrants charging promise to ac-
cept a bribe were issued yesterday for
the following aldermen: VIM. Koenig, |
Third ward; VIM. H. c. Hind1e and |
Stephen Skarzycki, Seventh ward |
Patrick O'Brien, Tenth ward; Rich |
ard M Watson, Twelfth ward; Thomas |
Lynch and George H. Ellis Fifteenth |
ward; J. F. Merritt, Sixteenth ward |
VIM. F. Zoeller, Eighteenth ward.
The com plants were sworn to by (
Edward r. Schreiter. former SECRETARY /
of the council committee, also charged |
with bribery, who recently made to
the prosecutor what the latter has
termed a full confession; which i'm |
plicates all of the aldermen accused; |
which may be the basis for the arrest
of former aldermen and which he said /
as far as Schreiter knows composes the |
history of grating by members of the !
city council for more than a decade.