Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1908 — HUGHES WIELDS A BIG STICK [ARTICLE]

HUGHES WIELDS A BIG STICK

Culls for the Removal of a Sheriff Because He Doesn't Enforce the Anti-Gambling Law. Saratoga, N. Y„ Aug. 11.—Copies of charges of alleged neglect of duty for failure to suppress the alleged gamfr-v ling at Saratoga Springs, a request for his removal from office, have been served upon Site tiff John Bradley. Jr., of Saratoga county, by Ben Smith, confidential stenographer to Governor Hughes. The charges were filed with Governor Hughes by Dr. Walter Laidlaw, as chairman of the Anti-Itacing Gambling Campaign committee, with offices in New York. Sheriff Bradley is summoned to appear in bis own defense in the executive chamber at Albany on Aug. 17, at • p. m. The governor has directed Sheriff Bradley to file his answer to the chargee by that time.