The San Francisco call., 1899-07-26
JUDGE De HAVEN
ASKS FOR TWO
INDICTMENTS
He Refers to billiard
and Loupe.
GRAND JURORS INSTRUCTED
ATTORNEY CooMBs WILL PUSH
THE MATTER.
Determination to Garry On the Prose
cution of Welburn and His Two
Confidential Agents if They
Are Indicted.

| In charging the new Federal Grand
| Jury yesterday morning United States
! District Judge de Haven made some re-
marks which caused sensation in the
courtroom and actually gave an appear
/ ance of life to the usual midsummer dull
ness in the Appraisers building.
1t was understood at once that the court
| had requested the new Grand Jury to do
| what its predecessors had failed to ac-
| complish. namely, the Indictment of w.
! H. billiard and Louis Loupe for their acts
while engaged in the Internal Revenue Of
fee in this city during the administra-
| ton of Osca NJ. Welburn.
It will be remembered that after the ac-
ouittal of Welburn on the first trial some
of the trial Jurors said that they could not
convict Welburn so long as billiard ana
Ioupe were allowed 10 escape. On the
second trial recently the jury disagreed
and several of the jurors stated there
would not be any difficulty in convicting
all three but that they did not propose
to make a scapegoat OF the disgraced ex-
addressing the jury yesterday Judge de
! Haven charged them that it was their
! duty to examine into and take the proper
action on all violations OF law. he called
their attention particularly TO section 542l
of the Revised Statutes, under which sec
tiOn WeIDurn was tried. The section deals
with the crime of forging, altering, etc,
documents with the intent 10 ueAiduu the
After reading the section in full, Judge
de Haven called the particular attention
J of the Jurors TO the affairs OF the internal
/ Revenue Office of the First District of
! California Further than that the court
did not go. Immediately upon the dis
/ missal of the jury, United States District
/ ATTORNEY Coonbs visited Judge de Haven
! in chambers and had lengthy confer
! ence The result of the conference was
that Mr. Coombs decided to bring the
( cases Of Dillard and Loupe at once before
/ the Grand Jury Burt Nj. Thomas, special
/ internal revenue agent, was afterWard
/ ci9se.ed with Mr. Coombs for an hour
Aftrr the conference Mr. Thomas said
/ to reporter that he had presented the
cases Of billiard and Loupe before the
! and that the jury had failed to indict
! them Those jurors had informed him
/ that they would not indict Dtllard and
/ IolIpe unless Welburn were convicted.
/ Il have the evidence, added Mr..
! Thomas "ard 1 am prepared TO present
! IL to the Grand Jury at any time. VIII
! give them all the facts and details that
United States District Attorney Coombs
said: Il propose to carry out faithfully.
will facilitate the work of the jury in
! complying with the instructions of the
court Inasmuch as these instructions
have been given by the court, shall,
of my own notion present the matter to
! the Grand jury With regard to Mr.. We'll
burns case. l will say that IL the acces-
sories are TO be prosecuted justice should
surely require that the principal should
/ be prosecuted also"
! The following named citizens constitute
the new Grand Jury: William H. Brown.
! foreman; A. II. Frank, secretary: Mau-
rice Sullivan. Francis NJ. Stevens, Joseph
/ II. Scott, G. p. Ayres. Gustav L. Breese,
| B. F. Mead, A H. Castle, Edward &.
Read, z. Trittenbach. F. l.. Hobson, A
Hamilton, J. B. Toplitz, William May,
Richard NJ Donnelly. Nj. Weber. A L.
House. Philip Phillips. P. B. Berges, R.
F. Tilton. Edward We'll and Charles l..
Mccoy.