| Show SCANDAL IN COLORADO graft on scale Is charged against prison officials denver mi misappropriation appropriation ls of funds gra graft ft in ili construction of buildings in the purchase of supplies and in the sale ale of pr products trim the labor of convicts V are the general charges resulting f from om an uncompleted investigation of the administration of penitentiary affairs 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 uncovered but the convicts have also been shamelessly it is charged though a long sor sorie lesof blackmail where hope of freedom was the bait held out for their few faw dollars in the c caso io i o of convicts it is charged their money was solicited by former officials of the penitentiary on promise of favorable action by tho the board of pardons |
