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Show Ji CHAS. HYDE M INIIItltl) Wji City Chamberlain of ttj New York Faces a K Serious Charge fflUjjL New York. May 2. Charles Hyram iliij Hyde, the city chamberlain, appeared J Sflto I in court this afternoon and pleaded rjjjf , not guilty to an Indictment charging ill! i bribery. $! The offense charged Is punishable Will n' Imprisonment for not more than iSljlJ ten years or a Qno of not more than uimt 55,000 or both The grand jury, which has been In- iM j vestlgating the affairs of the suspend- 3atH i G Carnegie Trust company, found the 3E.S! t Indictment yesterday. Great secrecy sTjifi f was maintained over the Indictment, Hill ' which was sealed and marked N A.," mvm i meaning "No arrest," fiSfo j Mr. Hyde's Indictment Is said to Mltv have followed a story told tho grand i$Hfi Jury n Joseph G Robin, who Is said gja to have related that he made loanB ijwp.f through the Northern bank to the Car- 'fshf ( negie Trust company under what he Wtii t described ns coercion. J V. Smith, udi! Hyd's secretary. Is alleged to havp re- l"'1 f celved a check for about 514,000 from Kg' 'I the Carnegie company, which Smith Is 9i said to have told tho grand Jury ho Mff turned over to Hyde |