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Show HID POLICE CHIEF eillllYOF GRAFT SEATTLE, July 3. Former Chief of Police Charles "W. Wappcnsteln was found guilty tonight of accepting a hrlbe of $1,000 last August for permitting per-mitting Gideon Tupper and Clarence J. Gerald to operate disorderly houaoa. In the old King street vice district. The Jury was out seven and n half liours. This was the second trial ofVap-penstein ofVap-penstein on tho bribery charge, the jury having disagreed In the previous hearing. The defense today waived the right to argue, the state alono summing up tho case. Immediately after receiving the verdict, the court adjourned without indicating when sentence will bo passed Wappenstein Is already under un-der bonds ot J67.G00 on seven other indlctmonts. No additional bond was required tonight. The cases against Wappcnsteln are closely related to the iccall election hold last February, when former Mayor Hiram C Gill was ousted In favor of Mayor George W. Dllllng. Demand had been mado that Mr Gill remove Wappcnsteln, his chief of police but GUI refused, and the recall movement followed. Wap-ponstcln Wap-ponstcln rcsjgned shortly after Gill vent out of office. Shortly after the recall election, a special grand Jury was called "to con aider evidence of detectives employed several months before My Dr. Mark A Matthews, pastor of the First Presbyterian Presby-terian church. Gideon Tupper and Clarence J. Gerald, Ger-ald, the alleged bribe givers, wore the state's principal witnesses In the two |