The San Francisco call., 1899-09-27

lined the testimony he would give at
the investigation as published in yester-
days Call.
While neither willing to deny nor affirm
that he knows DR.. Cranz or that he
visited his office, DR.. Assay says that If
such a visit was made 1t was for the
purpose of telling DR.. Cranz a number
Of uncomplmentary things about him
self and cautioning him not to mix the
Asay name in the Dental Board scandal,
under penalty of severe punishment po-
litical and otherwise
A representative of The Call was pres
ent in Or. Cranz's office on the occasion
of Asay's visit, and at that time there
were no indications of hostilities.
DR.. Asay sent The Call a signed com
munication last night denying in an
eyasive way that he had PAID money to
Tebbets for a certificate for his young
lady friend.
Dr. w. u. King, who has offices in the
Flood building, is in possession of much
information to corrcborate and strengthen
the statements made by Dr. G. H. GAIA
rian, the Armenian of Fresno, wnom
Tebbets begged to put a plaster on his
ranch so that he could raise the where
with with which to do business with the
Tebbets question bureau. DR.. King re-
members well the circumstance and of
DR.. GaZarians statement made 20 him
upon the very day Tebbets held him up to
grease his itching palm.
81 remember Gazarian very WELL" said
DR.. King yesterday. Il took pity on him.
He seemed to be a very decent fellow,
well educated, but laborng under the dis
advantage of not being able to read and
write the English language very readily.
SympathiZing with him | went to the
president of the State Board of Dental
Examiners and secured permission for
him TO take the examination through an
interpreter
when it was all over he came to me
very much downcast II said that he had
been refused a certificate, although his
examination had been satisfactory, and
then, in the presence of DIR. Metcalf of
Sacramento told the story of attempted
extortion precisely as related in this
mornings Call.
Il never discussed the matter with Teb-
bets and the assertion that he admitted
to me that he had been doing crooked
business on the board is not correct"
DR.. King made no effort to conceal the
impression that his opinions of the ac-
cused were not the most favorable.
DR.. George R. Harris is decidedly un-
nerved at the publication in The Call of
his correspondence with Covington rela-
tive to the possibility of purchasing from
Tebbets the list of questions TO be asked
dl lue EXAMINATIONS given Dy the State
board. He thinks the thing is going too
far and asserts that the whole business
mystifies him. He insists that he can
explain every statement in his letters to
Covington, and yet shows no inclination
to do so. When seen at his home in Oak
land, Dr. Harris said:
This thing is going altogether too far.
Those letters contain nothing that cannot
be easily explained. / want to deny at
the outset that I have ever taken part in
any illegal transaction or that attempt
ed to pass my examination by unfair
means.
THE Chinese and Armenian I men
toned in my letter were first brought TO
my knowledge by DR.. Drucker. | was in
my laboratory some months ago. talking
with Dr. Covington and others. when DIR
Drucker came in and told US he had heard
that a Chinaman had put up $1,000 to Teb-
bets to be allowed to pass the examina-
ton and that ar Armenian had put I'M
5000 Several times after that l heard the
same thing from different sources and
concluded that there must be something
in IT. OF course, 1t might have been cir
culated by somebody to hurt Tebbets I
certainly have never told DR.. Metcalf that