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Show uu INDICTMENTS FOR WIRE TAPPING City Commissioner of Charities Chari-ties and Special Counsel Named in Grand Jury Findings. New York, May 23. The first indictments in-dictments resulting from the tapping of telephone wires in this city were returned by the Kings county grand jury today. John A. Kingsbury, city commissioner of charities, and William Wil-liam II Hotchkiss, special counsel for the charities department were the men named in the indictments Each appeared in county court in Brooklyn and gave $1000 bail. Mr Hotchkiss formerly was state I superintendent of insurance. He act-i act-i ed as counsel for Mr. Kingsbury who was one of the central figures in the recent stato investigation of the management man-agement of charitable institutions receiving city -funds. |