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Show WILSON ACQUITTED Clerk of Indian Bureau Did Not Pad Payrolls. NEW YORK, March 27. Frederick H. Wilson, formerly financial agent and distributing dis-tributing clerk In th Indian bureau warehouse, ware-house, was acnuittcd oOhe chargo of padding pad-ding the payroll at the warehouso by a Jury in tho United Slates Circuit court yesterday. The specific charge was that A Upon nut H. L. Sayrcs, a political friend, on tho payroll as a laborer for December, 1MJ, making affidavit that he had done work for which ho was entitled to receive wages of $75. Wilson ndmltted that Sayre had done no work, but said he had been taken on with the Idea that he would be nerded and wan discharged as soon as It was found that he was not needed. Wilson has been for years aesistant chairman of the speakers' bureau of the Republican national committee and was formerly right hand man to Richard Iver- C WHnciscSied by both the prosecutor and the defense testified that business at I he Indian bureau warehouse was run In a go-as-you-please way, and the Iaboreis alternate In days off and received full pay whuo sick They also admitted that Wil-son Wil-son 'spent llttloof his time at the warehouse, ware-house, and there were days when he did nnt :mncar at all. |