Show f STEWART ADMITS TAKING T LETTER Says Theft Was Ordered byi by i Other Oilier American Members of Council DID IT IT TO HELP MAYOR 1 Also States That City Recorder Moreton and Sandy Fowler Helped Helped- Comes now one J. J J j. j Stewart councilman coun coun- cilman eIlman from the tho Fourth Fourt ward and admits admits ad ad- mits J that he IIO purloined the ma mayors mayor's ors 4 letter containing the appointment of or lames James lne Devine n ns as fire ire duet chief j A As a a. defense de tie- I j to this act of or petty peU larcen larceny he lie SaR says the tho other American members or of the Iho city council knew he heVa was Va going coiner PP to take It It Also that Sandy Fowler Fowier f the mayors mayor's secretary who said ilO carried out nut the mayors mayor's I Instructions to the letter and CIt City Recorder John I J 1 l. l Moreton were accessories before tho the fact Further Mr Ir Stewart advances ances thin tho proposition ropo that II he did lid It as an act of or friendship to the mayor and to Rive gho b.- b. him a chance to take it back l' l As an excuse for Cor or betraying the maOr mayor may may- or and breaking his promise to vote ote for the appointment ho says that tho tue Insurance Insurance- rates were vere fixed the da day be before be- be fore ore the tho appointment and it didn't i matter then what had been promised J I De Devine Inc All this appears in an interview handed out b by Councilman Stewart art to toan toan t an evening e paper yesterday He lie says SOS that the tho mayor mayer and the rest were misled misled misled mis mis- led and made arrangements to appoint lne Devine because me tue underwriters under want vant- 4 cd ed him l Jo Lippman made marle them see the matter matter mat mat- t ter r In a n. clearer light when he told I.- I. them that the Insurance rates were fixed for Cor the next five tin years anyway al tn Under er these these- circumstances he thought I It was all nil right to break their prom prom- 1 I. I ise j- j All AlJ these feeble excuses will not male make any unprejudiced observer I el see sec j- j i f It was as all aU right to break theIr thell k i promise i I tilt tilt- lie Bond Ilond Istir Were er ere It not Co for tile the bond bond issue Stewart Stew Stew- lf if art and his fellows would not see see- any 1 s. gj-s. need to excuse excuse- themselves The rue vlot io iok t t. t k of or the tue pled pledges cs made malle has caused p people pie to stop top and auth reflect Ct The fact I Ei-I that lne Devine lid did not ask for Cor the tho position 4 lion tion but that It II was offered to him 1 and that solemn of pledges es o support vere made which were brazenly hi 1 will not down Iown z t Said Sold a gentleman well I known In the city yesterday as one who Is al a always well veil out OLIt of or all factional fI fights 1 s had about decided to vote vole for Cor Corthe the hOI bond issue I 1 believe e the dt city needs the tile r Improvements and the Issue is probably I needed 1 am wondering Just now If r. r J P I that published pled pledge e that toe mone money i c will be spent for the purposes men men- Is an any good I 1 am a n. little afraid of or trusting men who have ha once b S broken their promises Besides It looks as us If IC It would not be th the council IHn the party part committee that would have havethe havethe the tIle sa say as to the spending and there Is no pledge from themI them It I 1 dont don't want to help vote yoto mone money V for an any party part committee to spend and V VV i the administration seems to bo be only a aV V V TJI Is tho the state 0 of mind or of I S one tt |