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Show New Vork's Itotten Officials. . New Yobk, April L Ex-Alderman Charles B. Waite was arrested this morning by Inspector In-spector Byrnes at the Grand Central depot, when the train on which the ex-Aldernan had come from Essex, on Lake Champlain, had arrived. Waite was not in the least dis-oonoerted, dis-oonoerted, and seemed to understand the purport of his mission even before the warrant war-rant was produced and he was informed he was under arrest. An evening paper publishes an interview with Judge Gildersleeve, in which the Judge says Waite is the man who wrote the letter offering to tell all he knew about the Broadway Broad-way franchise bribery, f The Commercial "Advertiser publishes three columns of an interview with Waite, calling it his confession. The substance of the statement is that as a reward re-ward for his services in securing the election of Kirk as President of the Board of Aldermen, Alder-men, in 1884, he was civen the privilege of appointing the Railroad Committee. He appointed such men a3 he knew he could easily "control," and . who knew "Jim" Richmond. They voted on "the franchise fran-chise bill just as he dictated. The alderman claims he did all this out of pure friendship for "Jim" Richmond, who was Jacob Sharp's right bower in the deal, and that he (Waite) never got a dollar. He mentions a number of aldermen who he ' thinks did receive money, but makes no positive pos-itive statement. Waite finally acknowledged that his interest in getting tae Broadway franchise bill through was stimulated by a promise of the Fire Commissionership. |