The San Francisco call., 1906-05-30
COOK DENIES
SIGNING ORDER.
Judge Says He Did Not
Sanction Bail for
Collins.
Jail Doors Withstand
Technical Jimmies
Of Prisoner.

Judge Carroll Cook has suddenly
discovered that he signed an order
admitting George D. Collins to bail.
Some time ago Judge Graham learned
that Collins had been admitted to bail
by Judge Murasky on an order fixing
the amount signed by Graham. Judge
Cook denies now, as Judge Graham
denied then, that he knew he had
signed any order dealing with bail
for Collins
In his lin and out of JAIL feats Col
lins is becoming almost mystic. A
weird veil of necronancy- seems to
surround this man who has told juries
and courts under his sworn oath with
out a muscle of his face quiyering that
the records OF city and church show
ing him to be married to certain
woman are false and that the woman
everybody knew as his wife had never
been welded by him at all.
As the spell cast by Collins grows,
prosecuting officers blink their eyes,
wondering at times II they really. have
him safe. Grave Judges brush their
hands in front of their faces and pinch
themselves when they find he is either
broken from JAIL ON orders bearing
their signatures, but which they can
not remember having signed. Keepers
at the County Jail are beginning to say
that Collins makes weird symbols ir
his cell and seems to commune witt
rustling objects that float through the
bars, but these latter illusions are al
lue to: the keepers taking too much
water as a beverage since the earth
quake lid was put on Beyond an
occasional sardonic grin, Collins dis
plays nothing in thu way of action OF
expression that would indicate him in
.eague with Mephistopheles.
1t is said that all that is really
necessary is minute inspection of ali
documents that Collins may hand UP
o the Judges.
1t was on last Saturday that Judge
Cook signed an order for an alterna-
tive writ of habeaS corpus in Collins
case. When this was filed in the
County Clerks Office an order admit
ting Collins to bail was attached to it.
Assistant District Attorney w. Hoff
Cook. who is suffering from a severe
attack of Collins headache especially
since he sent the willy attorney back
to prison after the latter had been
admitted TO bail through the order
that Judge Graham denied knowledge
of having signed, at once communi-
Gated with his brother, Judge Cook, at
Glen Ellen. He told him it looked
like a diScourteSy to Judge Murasky
to admit Collins to bail. as that Judge
had denied second application made
by Collins.
Surprise and wonder were great
when Judge Cook wrote denying fiat
| ly that he had ever signed an order
admitting Collins to bail.
Collins technical jimmies have thus
failed to open the doors of Branch Jail
! ? since his late short freedom.
Judge Burnett, before whom Collins
| was convicted, had issued writ of
| probable cause, which delayed Collins
Transmission to San Quentin. On April
| 26 the Judge, at request of the Dis
| trict Attorney, vacated this order Col
| iins filed with the Supreme Court a
| petition for a: writ of certiorari. II
was issued and made returnable June
Ia. Judge. Burnett was in this city yes
| terdayS and as he had not been served
with the writ, he forestalled Collins
1 by setting aside his order vacatine
that granting the. writ of probable
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