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Show I DECLARED GUILTY ON CONSPIRACY CHARGE I PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 3. Houry j Clay, former director of the dopart- I ment of public safety undor Mayor j Jto.vbiiru, and Johu If-. Wiggins and Wil- i lard IT. Walls, contractors, wcro found I guilty by a jury this afternoon on a j charge of conspiracy to defraud tho city. Car B. Zilenzigor, a city arclii- I tcct, on trial on the sumo charge, was acquitted. Tl was charged that there was a conspiracy among the accused t to havo contracts for erecting public 1 huildings awarded to Wiggins & Walls I and that tho contracts wore not car- J ried. out according to original spccit- MR cations. Hj Tho convicted men immediately asked EE for a new trial. |