The San Francisco call., 1898-03-08
The Ex-Teacher Tells a Tale of How He Bribed
 and Was Bribed.
Makes Serious Charges Against Prominent Members of the
 School Board.
Weird Details of Negotiations Be- tween Himself and Directors.
 His Flight

Nemesis Stanton Is on the warpath. He has arrived from the north on his Arab shod with fire and armed with sharp-pointed affidavit with which he proposes to make life miserable for the School Board. His affidavit he pronounces irrefragable, or to quote him more exactly he says 1t is spicy" At any rate it covers seventeen pages of legal cap" and contains much mat ter of interest to some members of the board as we'll as to ex-Principal Kill patrick of the Business Evening School. For one of Stanton'S immediate pur- poses, as declared, is to support Kill patrick in his trial by the board to- morrow.
 It will be remembered that Fitzpatrick was recently suspended for unprofes- Sional conduct, and is still in state Of ordinate teachers, and he, too, was SuS- pended indefinitely" In the incrimi- nations that arose over this state of affairs Fitzpatrick openly charged the Board with having sold position to Stanton, and in this he was supported by man named Atherton.
 Stanton himself was at that time fn- accessible, but now, on the eve of the conflict, he arrives on the scene pant ing for the fray. He admits that he paid $500 for a position and gives de- tails seriously duplicating some of the directors. He confirms Atherton's re- port of a conversation between himself and one of the board and throws con- siderable light generally on the dark subject of plase-trafficking,
 Stanton in his affidavit said he ar rived in San Francisco in August, 1897, and sought the principalship of the new Mission High School. He saw SaorafarV Waloh Of the Rnar6 of E,6Il- cation, with whom he had previously had some business relations, and asked him for a letter of introduction to Dr. Ragan, which was given him.
 This letter with his credentials he presented to the doctor, who suggested that Stanton see Welch again and talk to him plainly" He did as di- rected, and Welch promised to speak to the doctor. Stanton called on Welch the following day and was advised to see Ragan again and talk plainly but delicately.'
 Stanton says he again saw Dr. Ra- gan and said he would be willing to of time he might be put to. After fur ther negotiations it was finally agreed that Stanton should be given posi- ton in the night schools upon the pay ment of $500 to Ragan.
 A few days later, Stanton says. the lCDOnn6ll dUQ w dil Sulto ClOpPCo OpJ and with the object of aiding and ex- posing the corruption he entered into a plan with a certain newspaper to en- trap Ragan. In furtherance of this plan Stanton again saw Ragan ana was given position as teacher: but on one pretext and another delayed paving the $500 promised.
 When the Grand Jury began its in yestigation and Waller was indicted, stanton says. Ragan offered him $500 to go to Australia, giving him $50 in gold to go to Vancouver that night and promising to send the balance to him there.
 Ragan failed to keep his agreement and Stanton returned to this city to clear Fitzpatrick of the charges he had been induced to make against hlm ana to bring Ragan before the Grand Jury.
 In the affidavit other School pi- rectors are implicated. but not to the extent that Dr. Ragan is.