Show READING GUILTY 1 OF GRAFT RULE RUi i Count of Mulcting l U. U S. S o t Labor Charge of 80 80 j Is Sustained l I f CHIEF BYWATER A TEn TEnIS IS EXONERATE Reprimanded ed and cd ed for Five Days Without Pay Is Only Penalty i iU I U t Finding him him guilty IH I on one cou count graft charges preferred a again against M the crt city commission directed Hat B that Charles J J. J Reading ant ent of the fire and police alarm yi be he reprimanded and SU suspended for 11 days without pa pay The he count n mulcting the tho United States Statts goyer by making a char charge e of ot 80 0 fo for lor I labor iii III Inthe the Installation of or tb the F r Douglas s fire al alarm ilm system toe he ho was wag being being- paid by the city A Acquit led d On ti One Two charges were preferred ar aral Reading heading b by William Woods r. r L. L j 3 J. J Donald and W W. N N. Gram Grams who assisted him In Installing I alar alarm system One Ono charge w wa wu j he h had taken property of or Salt I. I City and used it In tn the lie Fort ort D DI Do contract On that charge c h he wa mi ti en crated the tue commission I accounting produced b by Reading of or etc property which he admitted wi for or which ho claimed to have hate i n quant reimbursed the city f The rite charge charse on which he wa wn Wit f guilty g w win ate s accepting accepting- the no SO fo for labor in violation o of a city ardIn which requires that city not accept any graulty without I i ln the head of his and obtain hi his written consent to lot It This Reading Heading admitted at hearing he failed to do I y g In its findings s tho the e t u crated the tho chief of or the fire tire depart declaring that the tho evidence evidene lard fiRt sustain the char charge o that tho the chief attempted to squash the case CUI Tho The findings s also contained a i at ment In behalf of ot the tho public safet safety stating that h ii bat bad to make a thorough and sad II tIn I investigation of at the Reading Read m mati aiti but tut h had been prevented pre front from so 10 t 4 ft through th the refusal of at William W lit litto I to tp give gho Information when called ca do 00 so 50 |