The San Francisco call., 1898-02-20
TELLS HER
 STORY TO
 THE JURY How Mrs. Scully Pur- chased a Star for Her Illus band. Herself Paid the Money to Councilman krieg's
 Brother. Her Husband Turned His Back While the Deal Was Con-
 Sumnated. TALE OF BRIBE-TAKING. Dananing Testimony Against the Ac- cused City Officials of San
 Jose.
Her Husband Turned His Back While the Deal Was Con-
 summated.
TALE OF BRIBE-TAKING.
Dal1aning Testimony Against the Ac- cused City Officials of San
 Jose.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

SAN JOSE, Feb. 19.-"I handed the money to my husband to give to W. c. Krieg, but Krieg refused to receive it from Johnnie, and told him to pass it back to me, which he did. I then paid 1t to krieg."
 This was part of the testimony given by Mrs. John H. Scully to-day before the Grand Jury in the Investigation of bribery charges against Councilman Julius Krieg, a brother of w. c. Krieg. She had been frightened into silence yesterday by being told by a number of people that she would be sent to San Quentin if she gave testimony before the Grand Jury. A nights refreshing slumber, however, had given her fresh courage, and she went before the Grand Jury to-day, as she expressed it, to tell them the whole truth. Her testi- mony to-day, as a whole, was in line with the affidavit which she had made l a week ago.
 Her husband also was again asked to appear before the inquisitors of the county, and he, too, broke the silence which he had maintained yesterday. He corroborated Mrs. Scully's testi- mony in every detail, but reiterated his statement that he had not seen the money passed into the hands of W. c. Krieg. It is p~esumed that his back was turned at the time Krieg reached for it.
 W. c. Krieg was one of the witnesses to-day. His testimony vas of a pe-
 culiar character, though apparently given in the expectation that the mem bers of the Grand Jury would believe it. In an interview had with him on
 the day Mrs Scully made her affida- ! wit Krieg explained the giving of the 1 s5e note to him by MT. and Mrs. Krieg | by saying that the Scullys owed him money for work done for them and for | borrowed money. When he was be- | fore the Grand Jury to-day the only l entry he could show against the Scul-
 lys was an item for s1 75. He ex- l plained his inability to establish his
 claims against them for the full ! amount of the note by saying that his l books had been lost, except the ledger, ! and that he did not keep accounts of | small amounts therein.
 This note is said to have been given i to him as part of the $200, the agreed i price for obtaining for Scully posi-
 tion on the San Jose police force. This
 money or the greater part of it, the 1 ScullyS understood, was to go to Coun- cilmen Krieg and Dittus.
 Julius Krieg, one of the accused 1 Councilmen, was another of the wit i nesses to-day, but he denied that he
 had ever been paid any money to vote
 for or procure for Scully place on the
 police force. He said that all his efforts
 on behalf of Scully were put forth from
 pure friendship, as Scully had helped
 him make his fight for Councilman. | c. J. Mensing testified that he had 1 loaned Mrs. Scully s150. At the time she
 negotiated the loan, early in Decem-
 Der, 1896, she told him she wanted the
 money to buy her husband a position
 on the police force.
 T. w. Carroll, commission mer- i chant, testified that about month be-
 fore Scully was appointed a police
 man Mrs. Scully had visited him and
 endeavored to obtain a loan from him
 of $150, stating that she wanted it to
 get her husband appointed by the Council as an officer. He declined to make the loan.
 The Grand Jury has not concluded its 1 investigation of this case, and expects
 to obtain some new and important tes- | timony between now and Wednesday.
 when it is to meet again.