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Show on jewelry, furniture and clothing purchased by the Inmates. Thn privilege of gambling, it U void, was also nobl by eunollmen an 1 th" "rake off ' varied from $l..Vj to i 50u a week. The "white slave" trade, says on (ffielal of the Voters' league, is alo lo receive atteneiton. Detectives. It Is declared, have been nt. work on all varieties of wrongdoing wrong-doing for several months and the result re-sult promises to have the most purging purg-ing effect that Pittsburg has known. Captain Johnny Klein, about to be taken to the Western Penitentiary under un-der sentence for recehlng money jn Ifui.S for bis vote In the snloction of a city depository, ha? made good his threat to "pull down the props and lei the sky fall." District Attorney Blakeley told tho whole story to Judge Fraser and Judge Cohen In criminal courts today. Th public prosecutor told tho court that Klein made a statement which covered cov-ered a period of years, exposlug tho .whole system of graft In former councils coun-cils of this city. He said some banks had In 190 paid $102,000 to be elected city depositories. He also told the court that street vacation frauds wero covered In Klein'3 statement. " . "I made this coufesilon. first, because be-cause I owe It to my family; and, second, because I owe It to the pub lie," he eaid. 'I have malice toward none." A lare number of Informations a! ready have been made by the district attorney before Judge Fraser, but the names of the men mentioned in lh Informations have not as yet beeo made public District Attorney Blake, ley asked the court that he be allowed to promise Immunity to all those whe would enter pk'Hs of guilty to th charges he would later bring against them. Judge Cohen consented, and Immn dlately after the district attorney ap peared before Judge Fraser, sitting In another department of the criminal courts as committing magistrate, and entered an information against J. H. Sheasley. a former councilman, charging charg-ing him with having, received $2'iu c( a certain alleged graft sum during J0OS. Sheasley, being present, at onco entered ' nb n of not guilty. PITTSBURG SENSATION Confession of Councilman Council-man Discloses Graft in All Forms PitUbure, Pa , March 21. Holy week has begun as a confessional season among tho men who bit or have sat in the legislative councils of Pittsburg, and it Is to experience, says District Attorney William A. Blakeley, an exposure of municipal graft so malodorous t.ial citizens will gasp. The ball which little "Captain" John K Klein set rolling by confession confes-sion of bis bribe-taking and of thu alleged Implication of sixty or more councilmen of his day. has already drawn with it up to today an admission admis-sion of guilt. In one degree r another an-other from a dozen of his associate. About a hundred thousand graft-tainted graft-tainted dollars. It is alleged, were involved in-volved lu Ihe effort of six hanks 'n PlUsburg lo buy ouncilmanlc votes iu 1908, In favor of ordinance maklm; the banks depositories for the city's money. Klein, convicted as a principal in j the bribe-taking, would have gone to Ihe penitentiary today for a three and one-half years' term, but, at the eleventh hour, he turned back In wrath at his friends, whom he charged with desertion and told all. A wife and twins, Klein was to leave behind with a mere $200 for sustenance susten-ance during his prison lerm, he said, and when uone of bU partners In guilt "would pass the hat" to provide for his family, he ihought It time to tell. Now Kieln Is In fair porapecls, 1 Is said, of getting an early pardon par-don or e-scaplng punishment altogether, alto-gether, for his exposures. An extraordinary session of the grand Jury was called today to hear Klein's story but the probe Is to go further said the district attorney today, to-day, and a variety of petty' grafts nre to bo brought to light. - Evidence i at hand, he said, to the effect that councilmen have collected money on liquor sold to disorderly houses, and ' |