Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-27
Seek to Have Many
Indictments Held
Invalid
Director of Thaw Defense and He.
ney's Assistant Meet in Judge
LawIor's Court-OiiVer
on Stand
BY Associated Press.


Delmas, a veteran of the bar, and
Charles w. Cobb, the youthful law
partner of Assistant District Attorney
Heney, were pitted against each other
today in arguments for and against
the motion to set aside certain of the
bribery indictments against Vice
President Louis Glass of the Pacific
pany, and the frequent tilts exchanged
between the polished director of the
Thaw defense and his boyish but
capable antagonist kept the 200 spec
tators in the pews of the temple Israel
on the edge of eagerness all afternoon.
The famed punctiliousness Of the one
was never more in evidence; the blunt
ness of the other served seemingly as
foil.
To Mr.. Delmas Mr.. Cobb was my
youthful and learned advisary"; to Mr..
Cobb Mr.. Delmas was sharply and ac-
cusatorily you The audience en-
joyed 1t, but Judge Lawlor now and
then called a stop.
Once Mr.. Delmas was cut short in
the middle of a finely turned phrase by
the entrance of the grand jury, who
marched down the dim, carpeted aisle
of the synagogue to return a batch of
held for throwing bricks and rioting In
the street car strike.
oliver on Stand
The greater part of the afternoon
was consumed in examining Foreman
B. P. oliver of the grand jury as to
the voting and returning of those two
indictments which charge Mr.. Glass
with the crime of bribing Supervisors
Furrey and Sanderson to vote against
the granting of a competitive fran
chise to the Home. Telephone company
of San Francisco. 1T developed that on
the 21st of last March the grand jury
voted to indict Louis Glass eleven
times for bribing eleven supervisors,
but only nine of these were returned
into court March 23 The two with
held were the Furrey and Sanderson
indictments, which Assistant District
Attorney Heney instructed Foreman
Oliver to withhold and place for safe
keeping in the grand jury strong box.
In making out the eleven true bills
the Furrey indictment was signed and
voted, but the Sanderson Indictment
was not. On May a. two months
later, Mr.. Heney gave Mr.. Oliver two
true bills to be substituted for the
Furrey and Sanderson indictments say
ing the district attorneys office had
found it advisable to make a change
in the phraseology" and on the same
day these substitutes were by the
grand jury lodged against Glass in
court.
1t was to determine whether these
substitute indictments had been duly
voted by the board of inquiry and
whether the Sanderson one was found
ed on testimony given by Sanderson
himself in the interim of March 21
May "a, that the foreman was exam
ined at much length by the defense.
The attempt to elicit this informa-
tion provoked Cobb to accuse Delmas
of seeking to discover grand jury Sc
crets and require the witness to vio-
late his oath to protect these secrets.
It developed from Mr.. divers an
swers that Sanderson's testimony was
given six days after the grand jury
had voted to find eleven true bills
against Glass, and that his confession,
given with tears coursing down his
cheeks-he is slowly dying of consump-
tion-formed no part of the evidence on
which the indictments were based.
oliver Can't Remember
"Win you kindly state" asked Del
mas. what subject was under investi-
cation when Mr.. Sanderson appeared
before the STdHu July oii 'AiO oASSi AiOoAi
OF March 27?"
This was vigorously objected to by
the prosecution, spoken for by both
Cobb and Heney. Judge Lawlor in
structed Foreman oliver to answer.
At cannot remember. l have not the
slightest recollection" he Said Finally
he declared that there was nothing be-
fore the grand jury at that time.
'Is 1t possible" demanded Delmas,
"that YOU administered to Mr.. Sander
son the oath to tell the truth, the
whole truth and nothing but the truth
concerning the matters now pending
before this body when there were no
matters pending"
at simply administered the oath
which the law prescribes shall be ad-
ministered to all witnesses before the
grand Jury" defended oliver. The
district attorney had informed us that
Supervisor Sanderson had come IN
from the country and was waiting TO
testify. and we had him come IN.
Delmas wanted to know II OllVer
could recall any one thing that san
derson said in his testimony. over the
objection of the state he answered
"Only one thing can recall, and that
I am not at liberty to repeat to you,
But it did not concern Mr.. Glass. l