Garland Globe | 1908-03-07 | Page 2 | After Jerome's Scalp

I AFTER JEROME'8 SCALP. Metropolitan Street Railway Wants District Attorney Removed. Now York. Twenty-two specific ,chnrges are mado In a petition praying pray-ing for tho romovnl of William T. Jo-fomo Jo-fomo as district attorney of tho county coun-ty of Now York, which wns sent to Governor Hughes nt Albnny Thursday by a commlttco of stockholders of tho Metropolitan Street Hallway company through their chairman, William E. King. Tho petition alleged thnt Jo-nimo Jo-nimo failed to properly prosocuto charges of alleged "jury fixing" nnd tho giving of falso testimony in street railway ensos; thnt tho prosecution of violations of tho criminal law by tho llfo lnsuranco companies of Now , York, as disclosed by tho Armstrong commlttco, had boen delayed; that an alleged criminal conspiracy to divert tho property of tho Metropolitan Street Railway company of'Now York into tho hands of a fow men was allowed al-lowed hy Mr. Joromo to go on and hundreds of stockholders robbed of their money and thnt no attompt was mado to punish men nllcgcd to havo committed other frauds In connection with Now York City Traction deals.