Show CLEARED f BY CITY GITY COUNCIL i S t V I Woods Wood's Charges Not Proven Is 1 Verdict After Attel Long Hearing 1 i D- D ACCUSER BUMPED HARD I 1 Fizzling Fail Failure Recorded in Y I Inquiry into Street Jf Il Department i the verdict Charges not proven is of the elt city council at the end cud of or a n long longi i 1 S Investigation of or charges of or graft and aUlI r against Street Su Supervisor Super Super- er- er J 1 visor Jake Raleigh The investigation I U 4 tion which was start started cd as a farce and 1 conducted as a farce wound up in a aL L- L fizzling failure last night when the theS committee of tho whole reported to tho the S C l I 1 that the charges vere cre not In n t the e gruesome windup of or the case ease I Councilman L. L J. J Wood who had pro 1 erred and antl prosecuted the charges was wa i. i 3 assailed II ell from every quarter of ot th the council chamber and he was sat upon upon r f with iti such firmness that there hore was n no doubt left as to the unanimity with wit which the council scorned him and hi his 1 accusations t ns I Tio Tue administration throughout th the entire Investigation In was disposed t to c. c treat Ji lightly the smaller evidences o of graft and Irre Irregularities and since n no Were oven the whole business bus bus- largo large ones were pi proven mess loess slumped Into a farcical failure 1 Appear Jonathan es who had testified tied lied Friday night that his partner James Hardman paid Raleigh 4 for 1 24 4 loads of oC city sand from Crom a pit in North Main street was the tue witness witness witness wit wit- ness again last night He Hc reiterated his chargo charge and then said that Hardman Hard Hard- man luau refused to appear and testify sayIng say say- fn lug Ing he lie didn't want to mi mix mh up In the C affair Westerman said that Joe Redman He S 'S one of Raleigh's foremen and Tom Robinson n went to the home homer r J Sunday when Robinson told toM Hardman J not to appear against Raleigh Westerman Wester- Wester man refused to respond to Den Ben Johnson Johnson's Johnsons John John- sons son cross examination anti and said that i si- si J. J turned turned him down In mat tho-mat- r ter and he dl didn't nt care to be humiliated i i further v d. d H. H E. E Zerbe Zebe of ot the city engineers engineer's A 1 1 office omco that he had charge of or the grading In the sand pit and that 4 lie he collected 40 cen cents for fOI one Oile load and fu cents for tor or another load of sand j i He lie didn't know w who paid the money but he ho applied it upon the sharp sharpening S A Jr of tools He said he ho was sas a con contractor tractor S a o for or a job at It the Knutsford hotel and tent sent 10 or 12 loads of the sand to 0 that job ob i 4 S Got Gut Got It II Free iS' iS Ho lIo said that Harmon Raleigh's part- part t. t nor who was hauling for S.- S. Jenkins contractors contractor for the Cutler II in Richards street was as al- al 1 d' d to get get- all aU the sand Hand h ho needed d that at somo cIty employee helped S load the tho Harmon teams tenths He lIe also t tiati- tiati st 1170 tied that other teamsters were refused 11 sand a at ar the pit 55 5 James Hardman who had bad been badly S wanted by the council was wc found Cound In inS S the tho chamber and after much coaxing S lie told his story He said he had paid Raleigh 4 r 4 for tor 24 4 loads S of ot gravel In front of tIre tiro- Silver Machine and Foundry Foun Foun- S eJr dry company's place a few days duys after aftel S getting the it He lie told of ot the conversation con con- wI wih h Raleigh which ended in the purchase e of ot the sand and said that the second da day he lie was hauling c I he was ordered ordered away 1 Hardman s said ild that Redman Hedman and Robinson Rob Rob- r. r L inson went to ee e him last Sunday Sunda SundayS'S S' S S after atter Westerman had told of or the tho af affair at- at fair Friday y night lIe He said that Robinson RobtS Robt'S Rob Rob- tS t'S 5 inson told him th thae r. r he lie didn't have to S testify but that no Coercion or threats i. i S were v. used f AM o ay from Stand V i-V When hen Attorney Johi bon started starLe to lo show that shortly af after r the Frida Friday meeting Hardman had haa told Hiram iJ Smith arid and several others that hai he ho didn't S i pay Raleigh the m money ne H he walked f. f t- t tS S away from the stand telling Johnson JohnsonI I 1 to put these men up H He refused to too o r S talk further k examined a a. number of oC Harmon's Harmons Har mons mon's men and Billy Harmon l' l himself t to show that the city did not h haul ul sand sandi 1 for Harmon who is Raleigh's Hi IIi Smith testified that he lie asked Hardman Hard Hard- I S. S man lana Friday night if It h he paid Raleigh k i. the tue Sf 4 that was mentioned b by V Wester- Wester S man and Hardman said No This lils statement wa was vae corroborated by Ly others who were In a group when the thc conversation conver conver- r- r c tool took place Dan Crowther o one c cot S of ot these said he had been working Lt for the tho city as long IonS ong as ha hail had been in n the council Councilman Wood asked askell Tom Toni Robinson Robin Robin- i Eon son if Jf f Redman nedman at the Sunday visIt viM 1 S to the Hardman home promised Hardman Hard- Hard L' L Ilian man a Job with the city If he wouldn't testify against Raleigh Robinson said S that he told Hardman ho lie needn't come S but ut that he heard no such offer 1 harmon Gut Got All He lie 55 Alex Jones Jonel testified that he worked 5 s for lor or the city under Zerbe Zerue at the sand sandpit sandpit V pit and was told to collect 50 60 cents S a load lond for Cor sand but bul that he collected a only 45 46 cents and turned it over to toi Zerbe erbe lIe He said sold i that he ho and other othur elt city helped load Harmons Harmon's teams lie said ho lie knew several cr t teams ams amsI I were turned away nay from rom the place but hut that he lie and others had orders to let letiS iS Harmon have havo all the sand cand he wanted lIe He said saM that later he lie and Zerbe disagreed disa disa- S greed and that he quit cult j. iS S John Watson who former formerly worked for tor Raleigh testified that he ha had applied applied ap ap- plied for a position In the police de department do- do 5 that James Morris a son eon 1 t. t law v of ot Yoo Woods Wood's s 's went to him hint and told him that Wood wanted to see Bee him Ho He wouldn't go Morris he said t told ld him himl l- l that if It he lie would testify against HalS Raleigh Ral Hal q S elsh Wood would use his influence I to tu tot got him a job joh on the police force S Morris told mo mc that Wood had preferred preferred pre pre- charges against t Raleigh and he lie Li i l proposed to make male then them stick You will wil get a job on the tho police force if Raleigh Ral Hal J is found guilty he told me k h Denied E En Everything f. Raleigh took the stand and denied g S each and every everyone one of the charges His ills denials were re general and sp specific cinc and came as a a. climax to an nn exasperating f SS I aUng inquiry Wood moved d that the committee e of or tho the whole rise and report to the council coun coun- cil eU that the charges were sustained j 5 He lie didn't get a second and Fernstrom A moved that the te committee rise and re rec report re- re c port to the council that the tho charges s sf f were welO not proven There v a this dis- S J I vote when th the motion wa was put putS S amid great confusion by Ch fe Black 5 S. S L 10 council decided od to allow astor aitor- i l j S I II I I ney for both sides to argue the case for or If Hi minutes each S. S P. P Armstrong who had sat at Woods Wood's elbow through all the thu hours of the proceedings without without without with with- out saying a word apologized for being connected with the prosecution am and said that he he had never willfully harmed a n man lIe Ho hal had however harmed three dogs Which hall hail killed sheep sheep and and tho council counci wondered where the connection was in the Raleigh c case sc I Attorney Johnson started a n. cent oration by b saying that Wood wa was moved by spite to prefer tho the charges charge against Raleigh but that Attorney Armstrong was sincere and honest larty Grafters Grafter lie Ho honestly believes that Raleigh IB Is a grafter graner said Johnson He lie also 1 thinks that ver ever one une connected with I the thc American party Is a grafter II lie I has read these newspapers newspaper If Ie he ha had been handling the prosecution he would I have done a mighty sight b better job of oC It than Wood has lias s done But I do I charge that these thes accusations were wee made in bad faith and anti with the avowed purpose of ot ousting Jake Raleigh and getting g this man Jim Phillips appointed i in Iii his hilS place S All An of or thIs argument was waa I muus for fr br tho the case had been settled b by n n. vote of the cou council sitting flitting as n a ai I committee commItte of the whole Tho The report will c COme cOrne rne up Thursday night ule-ht and It Il will be adopted and tho the words not proven will bo ba changed d to not sus- sus UM d. d S |