The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-12-07

AlInOuRu q QcClbtOh ny Juusc W1Oi
curtailed the license which had been
extended to the attorneys for Super
visor Nicholas and Janitor Duffy in
their examination of the members of
the Grand Jury, that examination was
not completed when the court adj
journed yesterday afternoon at the
end of the second day. Procrastination
was the favorite weapon of the de-
Tense.
Foreman B. P. Oliver, in answering
Attorney Fairalls questions in the af-
ternoon session, gave the first authori-
tative statement of the character of
the evidence which mas been presented
to the Grand Jury He said:
"From the testimony that 1 have
heard In the Grand Jury room L am
convinced that the rotteness of the
present administration fs great that
nny one Grand Jury Will hardly be
able to make an impression. The
more testimony i hear the more I am
filled with disgust at the conditions
which obtain in the municipal govern
mcnt. In ten years time the material
at hand might not be exhausted.
awhile am convinced that corrup-
ton exists In the municipality, 1 con-
slider that my conscience would not nj
low to do any one wrong. 1
would more likely err on the other
for n man like Duffy. He was de-
bauched by his employers. He was to
be pitied."
BURNETT FEARED ASSAULT
Had you the same feeling for Holmes
and Cohn and the man who gave the
bribes? asked Fairall. Had they
been debauched. too?"
YES" answered Oliver TT is true
that is crime as we'll"
hot p
of ]. j. Dwyer and had employed him
at various times as his attorney
A sensation was developed when g.
G. Burnett, secretary of the Grand
Jury testified that he had intrusted
the records of the Grand Jury to an
employee of Heneys after being as
saulted on Fillmore street.
"Rough-looking characters brushed
against me as 1 was going home with
the records of the Grand jury" he ex-
planned. 81 thought they would like
to get possession of them. 1 had to go
home after dusk, and I lived Mt n
distance from the Grand Jury rooms
and was compelled to go on the over
crowded street cars L was In constant
fear of assault
Fairall made much of the fact that
an employee OF Heney's had been in
trusted with the secrets of the Grand
Jury in tin box" when he thought
they should have been given to Bailiff
William Kennedy. Heney, however,
volunteered the testimony that Bailiff
Kennedy had once treated him rudely
in the courtroom and when he remon-
strated had told him to shut up" The
inference was that Bailiff Kennedy
was not a proper person to guard the
secrets of the Grand Jury.
FAIRALL ADMONISHED
Anticipating the possible disqualifi-
cation of Grand Juror Wallace Wise,
Heney asked Burnett whether more than
thirteen had voted for the Indictment
of Nicholas, and Burnett answered that
such was the case.
Mendell Rothenberg, wholesale
liquor dealer who is a member of the
Grand Jury, gave his testimony with
bewitching smiles at the Judge and
volunteered the statement that he had
seen no evidences of any graft on the
part of any OF the Supervisors.
Fairall was again admonished by the
Judge to curtail his fruitless fishing
expedition, and when he was examining
one of the witnesses Lawlor said to
him:
You must change your tone toward
this witness. He is grand Juror of
this city and county. He is an officer
of this court, and as such you must
treat him In a more respectful man
ner."
Abraham Ruef was a spectator at
the morning session after his arraign-
ment in Judge DUNES court. When he
came in he went to the place where
the two defendants. Duffy and Nicholas,
were sitting and shook hands with
each of them
The hearing will be continued this
morning at half-past o'clock and 1t
was suggested by the court that the at
torneys for the defense should hasten
the proceedings to a conclusion at the
noon recess.