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Show MAYOR SMITH FACINGCHARGES Philadelphia Executive Held Under $10,000 Bail and on Six Counts. THREE OTHERS HELD Five Policemen Accused of Thuggery on Election Day Under $5,000 Bail. PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 11. The first slage of tho Fifth ward political murder mur-der trial ended today when Mayor Thomas B. Smith of this city was held hy Judge Drown of tho municipal court in ?10,000 ball for the grand jury on six charges involving misbehavior misbe-havior in office, contempt of court in refusing to produce certain documentary docu-mentary cvidenco, conspiracy to violate vio-late tho election law forbidding city employes from participating In politics, poli-tics, conspiracy to commit assault and battery, conspiracy to commit aggravated aggra-vated assault and battery and conspiracy conspi-racy to commit murder. Three other principal defendants, William E. Finley, a city official and leader of the mayor's faction of the Republican party; Isaac Dcutsch, a member of the city council and an aspirant for the political leadership of tho Fifth ward, and David Bennett, a police lieutenant aligned with the mayor's faction, were also held in $10,000 ball on the latter charges. Five policemen accused of thuggery in the Fifth ward on primary election day were held in $5,000 each on tho same four charges. |