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Show ; ; OF POLICE tRE INDICTED Malfeasance in Office Based on Charge of Non-Enforcement of Gambling Laws the Accusation. SEATTLE, Wash., March 1L The grand jury today voted to indict Mayor Thomas J. Humes, Chief of Police John Sullivan and Walter S. Fulton, lately Prosecuting Attorney of King county. The charge is malfeasance in office, based primarily on the opinion of the jurymen that each neglected to enforce the city and State laws against gambling. The vote was taken by the jury at 4 o'clock this afternoon and efforts to suppress the news pending the preparation of the true bills and th arrest of the accused were futile. Prosecuting Attorney Scott is instructed to prepare the indictments which he will probably do tomorrow. to-morrow. ' . |