“GRAFT” IN AMERICA.
BUILDING OF A STATE CAPITOL
CONVICTIONS AGAINST POLITI- ‘ " GIANS QUASHED.
The Supreme Court in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, has quashed the sentences passed upon six prominent politicians, thus ending the sensatioal “graft” c_ases in’ which these men were involved in connection with the contract for the building of the new State Capitol. The accused returned £300,000 to the Treasury, but it is said that no less than £1,000,000 was misappropriated.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3125, 23 January 1911, Page 5
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71“GRAFT” IN AMERICA. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3125, 23 January 1911, Page 5
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