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Show Hearing.. for Indicted Council-men Council-men and Their Predecessors in Pittsburg Sensational. ANOTHER MAN ADMITS SELLING VOTE FOR $600 Former President of Council Is Sent to Penitentiary on Charge of Bribery. ' PITTSBUBG. March 24. Confessions Confes-sions of six men who appeared before .Judge Fraser today caused sensations. Tho climax came when Georgo E. Anderson, An-derson, a former councilman fainted as the court asked him if he ever received nionev for his vote. Before the .iudge could finish his question, ques-tion, Anderson had fallen backward, striking his head on tho floor of the court-room. Attendants and attorneys rushed to his aid and wlicn he was revived re-vived ho answered tho judge's question. ques-tion. Itobort Cockrane, member of the council, coun-cil, admitted receiving $G0 to vote for the bank depository ordinance and $500 for tho ordinance vacating South Seventh Sev-enth street. .Tudgo Fraser wan led to know how it came he received so much more than other couucilmen for votin for these measures. . Cockrano was unable to make a satisfactory satis-factory explanation. He insisted he hud distributed nono of thu money, Judgo Frasor reminded Cocrano tins was a serious matter and ho would have la lako the caso under consideration. No suspension of sentence was granted and Cockrano left tho court-room. William Brand, former president of the common council, whoso statement to ,tho district attorney was so unsatisfactory, unsatis-factory, hnd his liberty cut short. Ho was sbnt to the penitentiary to begin serving the eightcen-mouths' sentence for bribery, on which he was convicted some months ago District Attornov Blakely insists Brand did not tell the wholo truth, and was shielding some one. Tho district attorney had tho names of tho persons Brand is charged with shielding, but Brand would not give up the desired information. Tho confessions con-fessions of Wasson and Klein cover thc5p points, howover, to tho prosecutor. prose-cutor. Former Councilman John Taylor, who was implicated in tho graft scandal by Dr. Yv. 11. Weber, brotight suit against Weber today for .$2o,00 damages. dam-ages. Taylor has made a public denial, de-nial, and snj-s Weber's statement ;is untrue. Tndictcd councilmon today began to como forward and give bonds in court for their nppcarance, signifying thoy would put up a fight for freedom. |