Show SCANDAL IN COLORADO graft on a wholesale scale Is charged against prison officials Offic lilB deriver denver misappropriation of funds graft amft in construction of buildings in tho the purchase of 0 supplies and in the nale imle of products arnn fr im the labor of convicts are the general charges resulting from an uti uncompleted completed investing Invest investigation ig aaion of tho the administration or of penitent penitentiary larY affairs tor for the last halt half dozen years not only have evidences of alleged graft on a wholesale scale running up into the hundreds of thousands been unco uncovered veed but the convicts have also been shamelessly it Is charged though a 0 long serie blackmail where hope of freedom was waa the bait held out for their few dollar dollars i in the case of convicts it Is charged their money was solicited by former officials of the penitentiary on promise of favorable action by the board of 0 pardon sl |