Salt Lake Tribune | 1905-08-26 | Page 8 | Grand Jury Finds Graft at Spokane

' HD JURY FINOS GRAFT AT SPUE Police Kept Finos, and Assessor Sold Blue Prints on His Own Account. SPOKANE, "Wash.. Aug. 25. The grand Jury reported to Judge Polndexter of the Superior court this evening that It had found that Chief of Pollco Walter hud nccopted money from Immoral women, nnd that ho had not turned the money over to tho city. Would Be Embezzlement. Tho grand Jury asked the court If that statement of fact would constlluto an Indictable In-dictable offense. Tho court replied thnt It could not advise the Jury to Ilnd or withhold Indictments, but that tho act reported by tho Jury would be embezzlement. embezzle-ment. Business on the Side. In the snmo way the Jury advised tho court that It had found that J. Fred Leghorn, chlof deputy In the offlco of County Assessor, had been using the apparatus ap-paratus and records of thnt office, and tho time of other deputies In preparing blue prints for salo to citizens, and had appropriated tho money to his own use. The court ndvlsed tho Jury that such conduct would bo malfeasance In offlco.