Show INDiCTMENT AGAINST MAYOR MAYORI OF PO llANO wAs DISMISSED Portland Ore Jan on motion of District Attorney John Manning the theIn In which were returned by bj bythe the county grand jury against Mayor George H WIlliams and Chief of Po Pa lIce fee Charles H Hunt or of this cit city were today dIsmissed by State Circuit Judge A L Fr zer Mr Ir Manning also asked that the record shows that Mayor Wil llama liams b be fully exonerated of any of oft tense t nse charged in the indictment The grand jury ha hardly p finished making its final report and had been dismissed when Mr Manning said UI I have an Indictment against our mayor the Hon George H Williams char charging ln him with having violated the malfeasance an e statute In this that he d to instruct the chief of po I ie of this city to close a certain gambling house on a certain day in this city I fully Cully realize that no man is above the la law and if Mayor Williams was upon evidence sufficient In a court or of law to justify jusUf a trial presumably guilty of 0 any illegal act I would be bethe bethe the first to pr him But after carefully Investigated the eI I dance dOnee upon which this indictment was I I find n nothing against Mayor Williams that would wa warrant Ule me as district attorney in putting the to the expense of trying this ease case when I am satisfied that an any jurY would and ou ht to acquit the mayor and amI furthermore I believe that a mn ma of oC the grand jury who had Mayor Williams indicted did it with without out giving proper attention to the thc tes testimony which was submitted to them Phd the circumstances I am compelled to recommend th that at the thc iii against the Hon on GeOrge H fl Williams mayor of our city ity be die dh missed and that he b fully exonerated of any offense charged in the in Ia |