Show officials indicted new york march 25 in the binea county criminal court today fourteen or fifteen indictments were banded doan by the grand jury against former city officials and contractors of brooklyn district attorney mareau refuses to male known the names of the persons indicted until after they shall have boen arrested it is alleged however that the indictments are the outcome of an investigation vesti gation that has been proceed in 0 for gome time into the operations 0 the public works department of brooklyn it is also said that the indictments charge conspiracy by which the city js defrauded of by means of fraudulent contracts the records charge the in question to emergency work the law requires that all work the cost of which was to exceed 2000 should be awarded by contracts upon advertisements for the regular time to evade this law it ie alleged the officers of the brooklyn city works department had been in abo habit of or derine work and for it in sums of 2000 or less most of these small jobs and the money tor them fell into the hands of a firm that appeared upon the books as thomas frazier A little detective work disclosed the fact that contractor daniel doody was really thomas frazier co all the bills for this emergency work had to receive the of water purveyor knapp be certified as correct by deputy city works commissioner fielding passed by auditor sutton thence through the bands of comptroller palmer and were finally paid by city treasurer taylor |