The San Francisco call., 1905-02-18
BOSS
MAY BE INDICTED
ON PERJURY CHARGE
Fails to Produce Bill 1t Is Said
He Declared French Gave
Him After Exposure.
Backs Do70n on the Stand
Special Dispatch to The Call.

invented Idle JndC Tor even Martin
contained dreams beyond compare.
This is the BILL. said Kelly, when
called to the stand, that was handed
10 me by Senator French" and he
handed out United States gold note No
O2Sl2O5. which is not among the list
Of those used TO entrap the accused
/ Senators. Il will tell you all about this.
lawn McNab has owed me a printing
Dill or 1905 for long time. He repudi-
ated it and told he would not pay
IL, but when he got into that last fight
with the Horses and Carts in San
Francisco he needed my help. He sent
for me and told me that if l would help
MIN out he would pay me $50 on that
printing bill He paid me the $50 and /
did help him out.
"A week ago last Saturday he tel
ephoned to me and told me that if I
would come to his Office he would pay
me S29 mS8e on account of that print
ing DILL 1 went to his Office. he paid
me the S25, and then told him about
tne pill l have submitted for your in
spectlen to-day / told him that on
the evening of the day of the exposure
or the bribery scandal Senator French
had handed me $50 bin in part pay
ment OF an old account. We have had
business dealings together and he
owed me this money. l did not look
at the bill, and a short time after L
received 1 placed 1t in an envelope
and mailed IL to myself, addressing it
to my home in San Francisco.
FINDS HIS MISTAKE.
II had not examined it when
called upon Mr.. McNab. and all / told
plm was that l had received a $50
Dill from French: that il was nv i'm
preston that 1t was one that had been
passed TO the accused Senators to en-
trap them and also that my impress
sion was that 1t was the Santa Bar
para banknOte that had been men
toned as among these passed out. I
did not examine the bill until yester-
day. when l Immediately called upon
Senator Belshaw at his office in San
Francisco and told him that I had
been mistaken in my belief that / had
one OF the bills said to have been
passed to the accused Senator's: that
had examined the bill and found
IT to be United States gold note and
not the Santa Barbara note believed
it to be.
After first told MeNab about the
Dill had received from French he
tried to lay trap to get me to talk
before a third party and finally he
succeeded in getting me to go before
Senator BelShaW and make a state
ment- 1t is not true that / told either
Senator Belshaw or Mr.. McNab that
had one of the bills they were
that had a $50 bill that had been
paid me by French, and that it might
be one of the bills they were looking
for"
Asked how he got the impression
that the bill that had been handed
him by French might be one of the
bills the prosecution wanted, Kelly
said:
When got home to San Francisco
after mailing the bill examined sew
eral letters found waiting for me and
then opened the one containing the
Dill. / asked my daughter to take it
upstairs and compare it with the list
or the bills said to have been given the
accused Senator's. The list was printed
In one OF the papers. Subsequently
she left the bill on my desk and a
Dit OF paper, on which was written
the number of one Of the bills in the
Est, and from this I got the impress
sion that that was the number of the
bill had given her to examine. But
1t was not, as / afterward found.
The number she had written was
the one on the list opposite the end OF
mark I had drawn on the paper
showing her where the list was. guess
that the mark called her attention to
the number and she unconsciously
copied it on the slip when looking over
the list. This gave me the impression
that the bill / had was one of those
the prosecution was searching for and
the number my daughter copied down
was that of the Santa Barbara note.
This is how 1 got that impression
STICKS TO TESTIMONY.
No amount of cross-examination
would force the admission from Kelly
that in fact the note he had was the
Santa Barbara note or that in fact he
had told either McNab or Senator Bel
shaw that such was the case. So posi-
tive was he in his denials in the face of
the positive testimony of Belshaw and
McNab that the District Attorney was
called into consultation and il is an
pounced that tomorrow he will swear
to an information charging Kelly with
perjury.
Kelly has immuned himself from
prosecution as an accessory to the
bribery after the fact by giving his
testimony under oath. When he first
went before the committee he was
asked to make his statement. but he
shrewdly sidestepped trouble by say
ing: "Ain't going to be sworn here"
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