The San Francisco call., 1898-12-14
McGLADE E
 INDICTED FOR
 RANK FORGER|ES Grand Jury Finds Two
 Charges. AMBROSE TELLS HIS STORY SCHOOL BOARD INVESTIGATION
 FINALLY DROPPED. A Adjournment Will Probably Be Taken on Next Friday After noon-Attorney Dunne Files
 His Report.
AMBROSE TELLS HIS STORN
SCHOOL BOARD INVESTIGATION
 FINALLY DROPPED.

Peter McGlade, defaulting deputy of the Street Department, the man who betrayed the implicit trust of his friend and employer, Superintendent of Streets Ambrose, and robbed the city of hundreds of dollars bv means of fraudulent and forged warrants, was last night indicted by the Grand Jury upon charge of forgery. The indict- ment included two counts; one for forging the name of T. B. McGinnis, a deputy in the office of the clerk of the Board of Supervisors, the other for forging a warrant upon the City and County of San Francisco. After bring ing the indictment the jury wound up it's evenings session by deciding to meet on Friday afternoon for the pur- pose of requesting Judge Belcher to declare it adjourned.
 The jurys investigation into the case of McGlade was neither a matter of difficulty nor of much time Detective Thomas B. Gibson, who has had charge of the case, had his testimony so ar ranged and his witnesses so well rounded up that all the evidence to be taken was in hand within an hour, and half of the twenty-six witnesses who had turned up in answer to sub penas were dismissed without being heard. Supervisors Haskins, Rivers and Rottanzi of the Finance Commit tee were the first heard, but their evi- dence was of no importance. They were followed by Superintendent of Streets Ambrose.
 MT. Ambrose made a frank, open statement of every phase of the case Q mt the first time that he had consented to speak fully of what he knew of Nc Glade and his transactions, and his plain statement convinced the jury, were it not already convinced, that the Superintendent and his office is not in any way blamable, no matter what unwarranted insinuations have appear ed to the contrary.
 Mr. Ambrose did not spare McGlade He told the jury that the former deputy's position in the office was not political appointment, that he had always been one of his warmest friends and had always trusted him in the full est and that the position had been given him on the basis of that friend ship. He explained how 1t had been possible for McGlade to take blank warrants from the office, but he stated that he had never given him authority to use his name. MT. Ambrose also exonerated any of the employees of his office from complicity in his deputy's crimes, and with that statement he was dismissed.
 Auditor Frederick and Thomas B. McGinnis were also examined. as was Expert Kytka, who testified that all of the names, save those of McGlade and the members of the Finance Com mittee of the Board of Supervisors had been forged. McGlade's signature was genuine. and the bod of the bogus warrants was written in his handwrit- ing Kytka said he had discovered seventy-five forgeries in all. and that he deems McGlade guilty of them.
 The investigation into School Board crookedness has been finally dropped The jury decided to have nothing more to do with it, upon the advice of Dis trict Attorney Dunne, who reported that any indictment brought for an in- fringement against the one-twelfth act would be dropped through lack of both evidence and sufficient law. The jury will be probably finally adjourned on Friday afternoon.