The $10,000 Military-Fund Scandal That Seattle’s Elite Wanted Buried
Former Adjutant General Ortis Hamilton confessed to lavishing public military money on Hazel Moore. She says the committee investigating the shortage is avoiding her because her testimony would implicate five of Seattle’s most prominent men.
Seattle—Mrs. Hazel Moore, who is now in San Francisco, upon whom former Adjutant General Ortis Hamilton of Washington confessed after his arrest to lavishing the greater part of a $10,000 defalcation in military funds, charges that the committee investigating the shortage does not want her testimony, because it would implicate five Seattle men whose names stand foremost in business and social circles. In speaking of the trial Mrs. Moore said: "I have returned to San Francisco with the resolution to go back to Seattle and testify if they want me to testify."
““I have returned to San Francisco with the resolution to go back to Seattle and testify if they want me to testify.””
Public-money scandals still turn on who is willing to testify and whose names get protected. Moore’s insistence that she would return to Seattle reads like a modern whistleblower caught between a formal inquiry and the social circles it is meant to police.
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