The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-12-16
COOK PINNED HIM.
O'DonnelI's Boy Makes a
Confession.
FALK DIDN'T FALSIFY VOTES
Young Thomas Is Arrested for Perjury
and Tells the Whole
Story.

One OF the witnesses who testified so
strongly against Registrar Brown and Dep
uty Falk during their examination on the
charge of having altered a semi official
election return was arrested yesterday on a
charge OF perjury. He is Edward Thomas,
youth, who drove wagon for G. c. O'Don-
nell during tile campaign.
During the examination Thomas swore
that he was In the Registrars office at noon
on the 9Th ult.. when he saw Falk change q
semi-official return. He said that he saw
Faik erase figure after O'Donnell's name
ana place figure in front OF the figures
after Eilerts name. BY this means 1t was
claimed that O'Donnell was deprived of 100
votes. which were credited TO Ebert.
Falk made an affidavit yesterday to the
effect that while in saloon at the SOUTH
east corner Of Park and City Hall avenues,
on the evening Of December. IA, he over
heard conversation between William j..
Fitzgerald and Edward Thomas. from
which he gathered that the latter had COM
mitted perjury when he said that he saw
Falk change the returns in certain dis
trict.
Ray Falk, E. J. Levy and G. Thomas,
brother OF the prisoner. went down TO the
City Prison last night. They called for the
young man ana lie came forth trembling.
FAX and Levy retired and the two
ihomases conversed for few minutes.
just what they said is unknown, but they
had not been together five minutes when
the young man exclaimed:
i tell you the truth. O'Donnell prom
ised TO stand by me il i got into trouble,
and I'll not GO back I'll stand by him."
lie was asked what he meant by getting
into trouble, and said that he feared that he
would be arrested for driving the O'Donnell
advertising wagon.
Falk walked away, declaring that the boy
would lie and stick to It for anything"
As he disappeared. Detective Rogers en-
tered the prison, and called the prisoner TO
one side. Tie detective demanded pen and
paper, and the following affidavit was
written:
SAN Francisco. Dec. Is. 1892
i, Edward Thomas. OF my own free will and with
our any oHer OF reward or threat OF any Kind, make
this my free statement:
The testimony which gave In the Police Court
the 5th day OF December 1892 In the case of
the People VS.. Ray talk, In which l swore that
saw SIR. KaIk change the figures of Ihs rernrns Of
election giving votes 10 Ebert as candidate for
Mayor and absIraeIIng them from the vote for
o'DOnnelI, who was a Candidate Tor the same once
sald testimony was untrue. as aid not see Ray
falk or any one else change figures alter the re
turns OF election. Neither was in the Registrars
ONCE al the time testlhed 10 such statement.
E. J. Levy, o. Thomas. witnesses.
Thomas. Falk and Levy left with the
detective immediately after the boy had
told his story. The boy said that he had
been promised that he would be released 10
day on 5000 bonds.
Thomas is 10 years old and resides at
13l9R Broadway. He spent several days
after the election in the Registrars office.
lie says that when lie testified in the
Police Court he did so by direction of Car
roll Cook. who told him to testify as the
preceding witness had testified. Young
Thomas had read the papers and knew
what had been sworn to. p. A. Dolan of
the Property-owners' Improvement Club,
and ODonnelPs brother in law, Frank
Gummar, had given him the same instruc-
tions. The boy said that If O'Donnell had
stood by him he would have stood by the
doctor.
Since bis arrest he sent to O'Donnell for
assistance, but there was no response.