Remarkable Disclosures as Result of Grand Jury Investigation Philadelphia, Nov. 1.
Vigorous steps are being taken as the result of an investigation which is being conduct al by a Grand Jury "into the whviesale police graft and corruption" in Philadelphia, following the discovery that numbers of policemen are associated with illicit liquor dens.
The Mayor has ordered every Policeman to be shifted to a ditfer~
The latest evidence given at the investigation disclosed that heavy bribes have been paid at various times to prevent police raids on lottery houses.
Warrants have been issued for the arrest of William member of the Pennsylvani nature, and the Clerk of the Council, who are charged with operating "clearing house lottery," and also for the arrest of a number of policemen on the charge of blackmailing gamblers.
The testimony of the witnesses, mostly negroes, further implicated two police-captains who were—already suspended from their duties, thirteen detectives and a number of lower-grade officers,—Reuter,
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