The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-01-24
AS Set Forth in the Felony In
dictlnents Returned blythe
Grand Jury.

con statements given TO the public IN
connection with the indictments re-
turned against A. Leo Wen. Pitts
burg attorney, charged with attempt
ing to bribe Charles II. Bronson and
Edward N. Ogden, members OF the
Wet Virginia prbils service COM
miclstton. have somewhat overslnadow-
ed The real offen:e with which the
P1tteIburg counsellor for the .Bfansi-
facturers Light and Heat Company,
and Subsidiary. companies, is charged.
The indictments are long, consist
ipfg OF many pages Of; technical legal
lphraseolcgr.s 3 a;
Wen IS under four indictments, two
charging a felony and two changing
a unisdemeanor, all returned by a spe7
chal grand jury IN the intermediate
court Of Kanawlha county The in
,dllctments cha1ge that Veil attempt
ed TO bride Bronson by offering to
pay him $40 900 and Ogden by of
fertng TO nay him $36 900. We'd b
under an aggregate bond of. $25 900
to appear IN The court March 10 to
answer the dnd ctment, the indiet-
lments are similar, the only difference
being in the name of the cotimission-
sr, whose bribery, tt 10 charged, was
!attemptef, aIrt lie amount offered
Indictment Premises.
Taking the !nlarc tuent for afleged
attempted bribery OF Bronson, 1t sets
out the creation OF the public serv-
Ice commission by the Legislature OF
1918, Its powers and duties and the
appointment Of the commit stoners by
the governor; that the said commits
sion had before st on Aprtl 20, 1914,
the Investigation Of whether or not
certain rates charged consumers of
natural gas within the state by the
Mlanr,eac turers Gas Company, the Tri-
Sli1te Gas Company, the Wheeling
Natnira1 Gas Company, the Blacks
willie Cdl and Gas Company; the Cam
ersn Gas and Oil Company the Wet>
eel Gas Company, the Chic Valley Gas
Company and the New Cumberland
tWl,ter and; Gas Company were ex-
scesstve and discriminatory, or were
ttu:'s md reasonable; that certain 9th
ar rates which these companies pro-
E-sisd to make effective November i,
1913. were also UP before the cons
mission for decision; that on, April
%. 1914 the commission entered a.
nal order prescribing the rates to be
charged by said companies on and at
ter May /, 1914; THAT on April 90,
1914, these companies, and the Nam
ufactlrers Ldgat and FIeat Company,
which claimed to own all OF the cap
tta ilstock Of and to control, direct,
conduct and operate The business OF
the other; companies named, fleled a
complaint in inc .dS5hist court Cd the
UntteI States for the northern dis
ltTict OF West Virginia, praying that
the order Of the clonnlssiem be de-
clared NUN and void, and that an in
Junction be GRANTED enj Joining and re-
stunning the commission from pro-
ceedfng TO enforce the order; that
son July, 29, 1914, the district court
refused the iniunc t1on; that In; Sep
TENDER, 1914, compliments appealed
TO the supreme court Of the United
States. Z. . 4 q u II S f
Alleged Crime Set Forth.
These premises establ ished !, The In
dtetment charged that Charles D. FL
lott, to7wit. on the tharteenth day OF
November. A. D, 1914, IN the said
county Of, Kama wha, we'll moving the
premises and wfis4e the inattels OF
controversy were pending eipnfous-
by, ,uniawfulay. .wtckeday, corrEptly,
wtlfully, advsedly and knowingly,
deYistng, coItriyiflg and intending TO
pervert the due course Of law and
Justice and to have the supreme
court set aside the order OF tlhe com
mission and eniotn the enforcement
thereof, "ani then and there fel6n-
iousiy. unlawtutiy. wicksdly,. cor
.,r9sptly. wiifully and ,adNaseday and
knowingly. .deytsiuls, continuing and
intending, then and there, to tempt.
sedEce. bride and corrupt the said
Charles II, Bronson, and, then and
there and thereby, intending to cor
ruptly influence him, the said Charles
II. Bronson in the performance OF his,
said Charles W. Bronson's cfiicial and
public daities,s and then and there
TO prostit Aite, betEay and abuse him,
the said Charles IA Brcnspn's trust
as such commissions aud member
OF Said public service connnisston !
! and she, the said Charles ID. Eliliott
on the setd K tfiit eerth day OF No
xen1bels. A. D, 1ss1 In the said coin-
tyxof Kanaw'ha, felonio tisiy 'rfilawful-
sly, wiclsedly; ccrruptlE, wtltuily, adj
visedfy and know ingly, did attempt to
brine the said Charles II Bronson
as such commas onet' and member q