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Show TRYING WAPPENSTEIN FOR ACCEPTING BRIBE KRATTLK. Wash.. .Inne I. The first dsvV evidence in th trial of former hief of Policy Charles W. Wapneostein. e harged with accepting a bribe of $1000 from Clarence Gerald and Gideon Tnp-per Tnp-per for permit ting them to operate crib bin", in the vice district, was to the effect that XVarpentein obeyed the or ders of the mayor and council relative to the herding of tht women. A.' A. Bramer, secretary of the hoard of health, testified that former Mayor Hi ram C Gill informed him that he (Gill) had created and established the vice " district himself. Both Bramer and his superior officer. Dr. J. H. Criehtnn, city health nlfieer. testified that, thoy conferred harmoniously harmoni-ously with Gill. Wappenstein and a committee com-mittee of the city council relative to collecting tributa from the women, and that the city collected nfarly 24,0(M) from them for medical examination and exacted no fines from them. |