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Show ALLEGED BRUTALITY OF SEATTLE POLICE Grand Jury Investigating; Mayor and City Council In Row Over Mattor. SEATTLE. Wash., May 3. Tho King county grand Jury, which has been investigating in-vestigating allegations of graft In the police department, under the last administration, admin-istration, began today an Investigation of alleged police brutality. Chief of Police Po-lice Claud G. Bannick, several sergeants and a. former matron in the cll3' prison were examined Lizzie Daniels, an Indian In-dian woman, who asserts that she was brutally treated In the jail, was also before be-fore the grand Jury. The city council has demanded the removal of the head Jailer as a result of thf charges of brutality, but Mayor George II. Dllllng has refused to comply and has asserted that he will not permit Iho council to dictate the administration of the police department. |