The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-31
MORE JURY BRIBERY.
Hurley, the First Suspect, on
the Rack.
OTHER NAMES IMPLICATED.
BaiIiff Rock Served Two Accused
TaleSmen.
HE is SEVERELY CROSS.EXAMINED.
The Names of Johnson and Kane We're
Not on the Sheriff'S Special
Tenire List.
HE is SEVERELY CROSS.EXAMINED.

case, for in the words of Judge Murphy
himself, his bailiff. Joseph Rock, is under
a cloud. Rock served summonses upon
two men whom Hurley declared he owned.
Their names were not on the lists from
which the addressed envelopes were taken,
neither man is assessed for a rate high
enough to have been placed among those
names IN whose company they were found,
and the writing on the envelopes is very
similar to that of Rocks return to the
Sheriff of the work he had done in serving
the special jurors with subpenas. All this
was brought out in the testimony taken
yesterday in the contempt proceeding
against William ]. Hurley.
1t was before a well-flled courtroom that
Judge Murphy took his seat to try the
charge against the man who, red-eyed
with weeping and intensely nervous, sat at
the lawyers table before him.
Mr.. Barnes was ordered to proceed at
once but Forbes, HurleyS attorney, had a
motion to make first, in which he asked
that the charge OF contempt be dismissed,
inasmuch as Hurley did not, at the time
when the transactions mentioned in the
affidavit took place, know that Johnson
was to be summoned as juror; in view OF
that fact Mr. Forbes submitted that he was
not in contempt.
"Your motion is Denied was all the
answer vouchsafed from the bench, and
Mr.. Barnes called his first witness, G. NJ.
Johnson.
Upon being sworn, Johnson testified to
Just what he had stated in his affidavit,
except that under the searching questions
put to him he went more into the details
of what had occurred. Hurley did not say
to him directly that he could get him on
the jury, Johnson testified, but he gave
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be very anxious to know my exact ad-
dress, said Johnson, "and told me to be
at my office early on Monday morning"
When Johnson came to court Monday
morning in answer to the summons, he
said he saw Hurley there but did not talk
to him. When his name was called in the
afternoon Hurley was again present.
Continuing, Johnson said that after court
adjourned Hurley came to him and asked
him what was up. "You would not tell on
me, would your" he asked, and then went
on to tell Johnson how he could say the visit
was for the purpose of borrowing money
from him. There's fortune in it for US, ;"
he continued, there's fully $4,000 in it. J."
Under Sheriff William Clack then told
how on Friday he had been summoned be-
fore Judge Murphyand had been instructed
to secure a special venire of good jurymen;
there were to be no unreliable men and no
saloon keepers in the lot. There was list
of addressed envelopes in cupboard which
had been prepared by the deputies of the
last administration for Just such a purpose
the summoning of a special venire-and
some of these he took and gave to his dep
uties to serve. The return made on Mon
day showed that all had been served on
Saturday, January 26, although it was well
known that Johnson had not been served
until Monday morning.
Forbes attacked the validity OF the return
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mistake of the clerk making the return,
and he was ordered to correct it in such
cases as were necessary. The envelopes,
the witness said, were accessible to all the
deputies, and were not arranged IN alpha
betical order. He knew of no way by
which stranger might know who was to
be summoned except by the balllff in
trusted with the service telling OF the men
on his list.
After some testimony from Harry Hart
as to his conversation with Hurley in the
courtroom Joseph Rock, the bailiff of
Judge Murphy's court, who served the
summons upon Johnson, was called. The
address on the envelope of the subpoena
was shown to him and he said he had not
written it. He made a list of the men he
had served, which he had given to the
Sheriff.
The witness denied that he knew Hurley
except from seeing him in the courtroom
since the opening of the trial, and he as
serted emphatically that he had never
spoken to him, either upon the subject of
the jurors to be summoned nor upon any
other subject. He had been to Johnson's
place on Saturday to serve him with a
subpoena he said, but Johnson was not
there. He had to go to the Baldwin Hotel
to summon a defaulting Juror, so he did
not tarry at Johnson's place of business.
He had to go to the jail on Monday
morning, and so he decided to serve the
summons on his way down there at that
time. He denied having shown the sum-
mons to any one or telling any one that he
had it. He did not know any one who
knew Hurley, and when the questions as to
his showing or speaking of the subpoena
for Johnson were again put to him he said,
81 don't think did"
Rock was then sent for the list he had
made containing the names of the men he
had served. While he was gone E. C. Har-
rington, the bailiff of Judge Belcher's court,
was called, but his testimony was imma-
terial, and then the court announced that
any statement which counsel might desire
to make would be heard.
Upon this invitation Mr.. LivernaSh took
the stand and told the entire story of how
Hurley had approached him, what he had
said and what had been done. He men,
toned a new name in the case, that of
James NJ Kane of 1905 Pierce street, who
Rocks testimony was continued after the
statements were made.
The list which he submitted he had, he
said, obtained from the addressed envelopes
and the envelopes he had picked up at
random from the pile. Those he sum-
moned were Reupperts, Duncan, Hill,
Goldstein, Walter, Hyman, Q. NJ. Johnson
and~James NJ. Kane. The last two men
toned were two of the men whom Hurley
said he owned. The list was handed to
Rock.
''Did you write that?" asked the District
Attorney.
81 did" said Rock.
"Did you write this" again handing
him the envelope which he had given
Johnson.
mo" answered Rock, after some scru-
tiny.
compare them," suggested Mr.. Barnes,
handing him the list again. Both writings
were strangely alike. Rock said he had |
not written the envelope address, though |
he had written the names on the list. They |
were submitted as evidence and marked |
"exhibit A. ;"
: Later in the day more testimony was
secured regarding the summonses. Will |
liam Harrington, who acts as secretary to
the Sheriff, said the envelopes were |
written during the McDade administra-