Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 34, Number 45, 23 December 1908 — Page 6

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TOE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1908.

SLEUTHS TOUCH OFF FLASHLIGHT OH BIG BOOOLER

Startled Pittsburg Grafter Was Then Covered by Revolver of Officer and Taken Into Custody. SMOKY CITY PROBE WAS STARTED BY PRESIDENT Mr. Roosevelt, It Is Stated, Wants Sensational Photograph for His Rewardsensations Are Sprung.

with the picture of the councilman caught in the act of taking bribes, he was to have it for his private collection. The picture will go to Washington after the coming trial.

Palms for Xmas at Gause's

greenhouse.

BUILDERS ARE PRONE TO FIB

Controller States Few People Give Truthful Building Costs.

LOSS SHOWN THIS YEAR.

ONLY" 159 BUILDING PERMITS HAVE BEEN ISSUED THIS YEAR AGAINST 884 THE PREVIOUS YEAR.

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Think Plan for Uniform System of Accounting Is Good One. PROBATE SYSTEM IS POOR.

WAYNE COUNTY CLERK SAYS THIS NEEDS IMPROVEMENT, BUT LOCAL CIVIL RECORD SYSTEM SATISFACTORY.

Pittsburg, Pa., Dec. 23. Sensation crowds sensation in the councilmanic bribery cases here. In the first place, it has become definitely known that it was . Theodore Roosevelt, president of

the United States, who first started

the ball rolling here. Mr. Roosevelt some time since was informed quietly at Washington that there were certain suspicious entries

on the books of banks in Pittsburg, entries which had evidently been fixed to pass bank examiners, but whose his

tory might stand looking into.

Mr. Roosevelt got into communication with Mayor Guthrie, of Pittsburg, en this line and the result was that a special examiner came and looked over

(he books of certain banks. The se

ries of explosions, beginning Monday

was the result.

Chief of Detectives Edwin McGough

was suddenly dropped from his posi

tlon. Mayor Guthrie, who has been

running the investigation, sent orders to Director E. G. Lang, of the department of public safety, to get Mr. Mo-

Gough's head at once.

No explanation was given, but it is

understood that McGough was sus

pected by his superiors of having "tip

ped" off some of those fox whom

warrants have been issued and who are

now missing. ; . "He Knows Why," Said Mayor.

"If Mr. McGough wants me to tell

the public why he was dismissed, I

will do so." said Director Lang, "but

he won't want to make any fuss about

it. He knows why." But the crowning sensation of yesterday came with the making public of the fact that some of the councilmen had been "caught with the goods on" caught in the act of taking money as bribes from those they were fleecing. In fact, they were caught with the camera and a flashlight. The Voters' League & of Allegheny

county, which appears on the surface hll,."'2 6" " "V"6 "Ie ? tJ money spirit of the. prosecution J el

has In its possession the photograph of 'r'lZL fZl 2 T , .u nm i Iocal People for the construction of

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Fewer building permits have been issued during the year just closing,

than in the past several years, according to the statement of City Controller Parry. The amounts placed into improvements of this character were also smaller, although two new churches the Trinity Lutheran and St. John's Lutheran, were erected. Last year 884 permits were issued by the city but this year, up to date, only 159. "Building permits prove to .be a poor medium through which to secure the exact amount spent on buildings for the year," stated the controller," as it is an established fact that people do not tell the truth when asked as to the extent of their wprk. Although the idea is absurd, many people have an idea that they cannot successfully dodge the assessor, if they tell the truth about the amount they intend to spend on construction, thinking that the assessor will come to the city controller's office and secure data from the building permit record. It would be a foolish assessor that would do this as the county would eventually lose much money in the form of taxes, through an act of this kind, since so many of the amounts specified on the permits are incorrect." When asked as to the advisability of each year making a report of the number of building permits and the amount actually spent for improvements, aB specified through them, Mr. Parry said that he would Consider such an act Imprudent, in that Richmond people were not imbued with the spirit which characterized citizens of many towns, because they do not

Although County Clerk Penny and County Auditor Coe were not in attendance at the meeting of the clerks

and auditors' associations held yesterday in Indianapolis, they approve of

the course taken by these organizations, in officially approving the Indianapolis Merchants' association for a uniform system of accounting in Indiana. Clerk Penny stated this morning that although there was a need for reforms in the conduct of the state's business, as a whole, he did not feel that Wayne county was suffering from the present condition of affairs, although admitting at the time there was one in use, that of filing probate matters, which should be changed. The method used in recording civil actions, he said, was a good one, but not so much could be said concerning the method of handling probate records, which system has prevailed in the Wayne county clerk's office for years. When civil action of any character is brought, all records pertaining to this case are filed together, making it a very easy matter for any one interested in them to review the entire case from the start to its completion, without delay or bother. But the same cannot be said concerning probate records. Persons desiring to trace a probate case are soon lost. Wills, petitions and bonds, real estate papers and account current relating to any case, are filed separately, and it is with much difficulty that all facts are gathered together. There are about ten thousand such cases on record at the clerk's office, and to classify all such material would be the work of months, and under present conditions it is thought inadvisable to attempt a change until the legislature acts definitely on the proposed uniform scheme of accounting. A committee was named by the clerks and auditors at the Indianapolis meeting, whose duty it will be to adopt some uniform bill which will be

presented to the law makers for ac-

All the good points will be in

strive to put up the best buildings pos

sible and tell the actual cost of the

same. A building permit report from tinn

the city of Richmond would hardly corporated and the bad ones eliminat-

wuiupme lavorapiy witn tne same sort e(j.

or. a report rrom another city of like size, particularly when that city was of the class referred to, he said.

Although during the past

under arrest, caught In the act of taking money at the Ft. Pitt Hotel. The picture will be used as evidence at the trial before the magistrate, or

several modern residences, and It is also probable that at least two big buildings will be erected in the business section of the city: the Murray thptfr anrl tho MiltHinr mkinh .in

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?Vr7.Z . ,r:ioccuPy tne slt of the present

trial if the councilman

makes any defense

in question

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shackle" buildings immediately east of

The photograph is said to be one of Comatock. who , ",,-...;

the most complete exposures ever t erectlon of a buiIdlng on this 6lte haa

Known. . 1 uu Vyuuaciiuuiui m queanuu is known as one pf the "Big Six," and

not announced his plans concerning it

is said to be the one who did all the collecting in large cases. The price had been agreed on with the contractor by the allcdged boodling Councilmen for the paving of

Fourth avenue with wooden blocks. , gome days ago the supposed partner ; of the contractor the one who was expected to pay the blood money reach-

d Pittsburg and the councilman approached him. "It's coming Christmas time and the boys want their money," he said. The contractor's supposed - partner hemmed and hawed about settling, but

was told by the contractor to come to HcMef'S.

the Ft. Fitt Hotel at a certain nour that afternoon when the money would be ready. Walked Right Into the Trap. The councilman walked right into the trap, going up to the room of the

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"Conductor," complained the lank spinster passenger, "that man in the opposite seat is winking at me!" "He says be doesn't mean to wink

The members of the committee are Thomas Nugent, Daviess County, chairman; J. N. Mason, clerk Allen county; W. E. Harlan, clerk, Madison county; Leonard Quill, clerk, Marion county; William Richards, auditor, Madison county, and Albert Sahm, auditor, Marion county. A meeting of this committee has been called for tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock in the office of W. C. Nusbaum, American Central Life building, at which time a copy of the merchants' bill will be studied in detail. This committee Is empowered to call a meeting before or immediately following the opening of the legislature, in order that the two associations as a body, may approve of the measure; but since the entire proposition was given thorough consideration yesterday, this meeting is unlikely, as the association's confidence in the men named, was freely expressed before the discussion was comoleted. Clerk Pfenny thinks that the proposi tlon, taken as a whole, will be of much

t- .ah " A.nl.fnan thfl pMirtomio par

official.' "He's only trying to keep the benefit even though the passage of eye that's turned toward you 8hut, any uniform bUl will mean many great

ma'am." Judge.

Boys' Watches. $1.00 up,

"He's quite a classical scholar, isn't her "Well, he" backward in reading Hebrew."

You don't say? I thought be was

supposed contractor to receive the particularly good at that

money which had been agreed on be

fore the councilman would permit the ordinance for paving this street to pass. . This day there was to be paid $10,000 to the grafting councilmen. "Coma right in," said the "contractor," to the councilman, who walked in and sat down at a table opposite the contractor with a fat looking pocketbook. The price was repeated by the councilman, and the contractor, opening his billhook, began to count out the bills of $100 and $500 denomination to the hungry member of the Pittsburg council, who grabbed them

up and began counting them, when,

So he is, but that's the way you

have to read Hebrew." Exchange.

Fine line Ladies' Watches, Haner's.

changes in the methods of conducting Wayne county's business.

Toilet Sets and Sets at Haner's.

Manicure

THE THEATER

THEATRICAL CALENDAR. GENNETT. Partcllo Stock Co. All week. Tim Murphy New Year's Eve. The Devil Jan. 1. NEW PHILLIPS. Vaudeville all week.

. "Montana."

When Harry D. Carey wrote "Mon-

Doctors' Fees. "Do yoa mean to tell me," asked a learned counsel when be was cross examining Mr. Whistler in a well known

case, "that for a piece of work which tana" he knew his subject, having takes you only half an hour you can spent several years on his ranch in charge so extravagant a price?" And Montana. He understood the spirit Mr. Whistler's answer remains th of the West and how to stage it. In e classical apology of all learned and piot fuU of dramatic situations he has technical skill. "Yes." h i-enlierl "hnl " -

flash, bang! the room was filled with a x am charging for the knowledge and , a p,c; ,7 "uuesijr' v, .., v, , ,, 1 m,cnarsrm.s z "e T1.86 an.d lessness and dare-devil humor of the

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the terror stricken councilman knew that he had been the object of a flashlight photograph, and what was more he found himself peering into the muzzle of a cruel looking revolver held by the supposed contractor. "Drop it:" said the man holding the gun. nodding at the money. H was a detective who had . been called into the game by the mayor and by the contractor, who objected to paying out so much blood money. The councilman tried to hold on to the money, but was choked .and thrown out of the room by the other detectives, who, in hiding, had been

manipulating ice imsuiifem. All fh tracks nf a T1Hr.

Then the pictures were developed frj,. .nhin tTl rlt f rYl,afTn w, ha

and came out well. One of those pic-; electrified and tbe use of steam loco.

who is aware that he has seen hits

for only twenty minutes. It still remains true that what Is charged represents that accumulated mass of hardly earned experience which distinguish the medical proficient from the men amateur. London Telepraph. Boys' Watches, $1.00 up, Haner's. Each year during the last five New York city has torn down enoagh bandings to house a city of 50,000 persons.

tures Is said to have been taken down

to Washington and shown to President Roosevelt, who laughed loud end long and obtained a promise that after Pittsburg prosecutors were through

motives abandoned.

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