The San Francisco call., 1898-01-09
VARIANTS
 TRACED TO
 BRALY'S BANK More Crooked w ork in the Los Angeles
 Schools. Teachers and Employees Answer Questions in
 Behalf of Webb. Claim for Some Trees Pur- chased Found in the Same
 Old Place. FIGHT GROWING BITTER. Local Newspapers Rush to the De- fense of Men Whose Conduct
 Is Criticized.
Claim for Some Trees Pur- chased Found in the Same
 Old Place.
FIGHT GROWING BITTER.
Local Newspapers Rush to the De- fense of Men Whose Conduct
 Is Criticized.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

LOS ANGELES. Jan. S-It was a day oA almost continuous swearing at the rooms of the Board of Education to- day, and the greater portion of it was oone by lady teachers. They were in- stgated and abetted in their course by the secretary of the board, H. G. John son. More than four hundred teachers and employees of the School Department sWore to and filed their affidavits with the secretary. These dispositions are to be put in evidence Monday as part of the defense of Walter L. Webb. who IS being investigated by the Board of Education on charge of having re- ceived bribes from teachers and em- ployes. He has already been acquitted of similar charge before the Superior Court. Some rather sensational and unexpected matters were embodied in these documents. The aff1davits con- sisted of a series of nine interrogatories prepared by the defense They were sent to each teacher and employe of the department with the request that they be filled out, sworn to before the secretary and filed to-day. When the office of the secretary was closed to- day there yet remained about one hun dred affidavits to be fled Most of these are expected to be in by Monday evening. Those who fail to make affi- davit will be called to the witness stand before the board to give their testimony orally
 Nothing new has developed in the line of bribe- taking or negotiations with bribery in view, but interrogatory No. brought forth one sensational bit of evidence, much that was interesting and some that was amusing under the circumstances. This question Is as fol- lows:
 Have you ever had any business re- lations or transactions of any kind or character whatsoever with any mem Der of the board?"
 Some told of being treated by Dr. Mathis for their health, some had gone to c. c. Davis for legal advice, others had purchased stationery or had cards engraved at Webb's; a few had pur- chased pianos of Bartlett, some as far back as 1887, or 10 cent or 25 cent ar ticles of the same director; some had boarded at Mir. Poor's: a plumber had worked at the house of McInerney. but had been paid by the School Director from his own private purse, and car penter had been employed by McIner- ney privately.
 Mrs. Emma IhurStOn, the pr1nclpaI of the Custer Street School, contributes some testimony that will probably give Director Braly and his newspaper de- lenders at least a bad quarter of an hour.
 This was her reply to interrogatory No. s: "Cashed my November warrant at MT. Braly's bank"
 The warrants of the teachers engaged In the primary and grammar schools are paid out of the county school fund and are then kept on file at the County Auditors office. A careful search of the paid warrants for November failed to discover that of Mrs. ThuTston, but it resulted in turning up that of George E. Roedisg for SIS 40, which had been assigned to the Southern California Savings Bank, of which Braly Is presi- dent. The assignment of the claim is without date, but the warrant was is- sued and paid on November 6, 1897. Although assigned to the Southern California Savings Bank, the warrant bears the indorsement on it's back of H. c. Bundrema, son-in-law of MT. Braly. In this transaction Braly involved him. self in a criminal act that is described and made punishable by the laws of the State as felony, and his bank in an act that makes 1t liable to lose its