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Show Gen. Shaler Charged With Bribery, j New York, December 1. Last evening a I bench warrant was issued for General Alexander Alex-ander Shaler, on a charge of bribery connected con-nected with the purchase of militia armory sites in this city. He was arrested at his residence, brought to the police headquar-terff headquar-terff and locked up. In testimony before the Legislative Committee Com-mittee to-day, Monmouth B. Wilson Baid that by an arrangement with General Shaler, after effecting the sale of the Schelland Fairchild property to the armory board, at figures greatly in excess of what the property could have been bought for at private sale, he had paid off a mortgage of $9,000 on the property owned by General Shaler in New Jersey. .-' ; ' |