The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-11-19

the Grand Jury tomorrow or Wednes-
day New indictments are confidently
expected by Prosecutor Heney on this
evidence. but every effort is being made
by himself and District Attorney Lang
don to prevent publicity in connection
with the matter until it is placed at rhe
disposal of the inquisitorial body.
Il was instructed by the District At
torney's office today to absolutely re-
fuse to talk about this matter" said
Marchand yesterday when questioned
concerning the $1,000 i.old-up. II should
like to define my position in the trans
action, but do not wish to take any
chances and get INTO trouble by talk
ing of it. I propose to obey the in
structions sent to me, and refuse to
discuss it further The prosecutors will
deal with it as they see fit
OVERWHELMING EVIDENCE.
Special Agent Burns likewise refused
to discuss the matter when approached
last evening.
mo evidence of this kind will be
given any publicity until it has been
placed in the hands of the jury and act
ed upon" he said. I'VE are adopting
this rule invariably with every bit of
graft evidence in our possession. All
will say now Is that the whole boodling
outfit is a sadly disorganized body and
that the evidence against it keeps
amassing daily.
What has been published of the evil
dence we have in the French restau-
rant cases is only a small part of the
material we have in our possession. 1t
wouldn't be exaggerating much to say
that we are being embarrassed by the
wealth of the evidence that is on
hand. It's really getting to be a ques-
ton of selection and deciding which
matter to present first TO the attention
of the jury We have only begun our
work and the indictments TO be return
ed from now on will make the record
of last week seem significant
Graft has been practiced so fla
GRAVITY and persistently in San Fran
cisco that the evidence we have OF 1t
is of a most amazing character. City
officials and others had evidently be-
come so used to violating laws that
they had begun to regard graft as a
legitimate function of public office, ]
have worked in similar cases In other
large cities, but nowhere have I run
across such gross abuse of the privilege
conferred by office as i have mere Inc
grafters literally proceeded under the
rule that no one was to be immune.
They shook down rich and poor indis-
criminately, and it was this fact that
has so facilitated US in securing evil
dence of their misdoings
ALL DEsPIsE GRAFTERs
I'VE have found in our investigation
that the resentment against graft is
confined to no one class of citizens.
The corner apple woman has her griev-
ance against the insistent demands of
the grafters as well the architects
and builders who were shook down :.
The very pettiness of some of the graft
has in fact, resulted in more damaging
disclosures than some of the larger OPP
erations Evidence of all of it, how
ever. is what we have been after, and
we have confined ourselves to no spe-
cial line of investigation. We are SIM
ply trying to establish the existence of
graft in all its different phases and
present the facts to the jury We have
nothing to do with discriminating
among grafters."
BELVEDERE CASE TODAY
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