The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-03-22
INQUIRY IN THE FRISCO
 CRAFT CASES CONTINUES
GRAND JURY IN ALL-DAY SES- SION BUT RETURNS NO
 INDICTMENTS.

Entire Time Taken Up in Probing
 Further Into the Alleged Bribing of
 Supervisors - Important Witnesses
 --RumOr of Trouble Among Ruef's
 AttOrneys-Pays Off Three of Them
 Report That He is Being Urged to
 Confess-CIosely Guarded.
 San Francisco, March 21.-The grand jury to-day resumed the investigation of the alleged wholesale graft and cor ruption in the municipal affairs of this city and after an all day session ad- journed until il o'clock Saturday morn ing. No indictments were returned. The entire day was taken up in prob ing further into the alleged bribing of the supervisors by the telephone com panies, on which issue twenty y-seven Indictments have already been based
 The grand jury made determined eff fort to trace the $70,OOO alleged to have been paid by T. V. Halsey of the Paci- tic States Telephone and Telegraph company to ten supervisors to prevent the granting of a franchise to the Home Telephone company. Officials and books of the Pacific States company were taken before the grand jury by Secret Service Agent Burns
 One of the most important witnesses before the grand jury to-day was Frank G. Brum, a director in the Pacific States Telephone company, and manag- CT for the Tevis interests, which seek to sell to the city the Bay Citys water project. After leaving the grand jury room Brum angrily denied that he had been subpoenaed and followed this de- nial with violent attack upon news paper photographer who sought to take his picture.
 Among the witnesses called were sev- eral officials of the Pacific States Tele- phone company, which 1t is alleged, ten dered a bribe to the supervisors through T V. Halsey, indicted yesterday, and now under arrest in Manila. Among these were John s. Curran, adjuster of the company; E. c. Carroll, general agent; A. J, Cooper, station man; c. J. Hall, former secretary to Halsey, and President E. K. Trimmer, the latter bringing the books of the corporation.
 Miss Nellie Smith, a stenograpner in the office of the law firm that attended to the details of the Home Telephone Co.'S franchise and who disappeared yesterday, was brought before the grand jury by one of the Burns detec- lives.
 President Zimner was in the grand jury room but few minutes and upon coming out declined to discuss the tes- timony beyond that he had answered all questions put to him."
 Auditor Sherman said thal he was requested to explain the bookkeeping methods of the company, was asked about the various amounts on the books which were paid to Halsey, but declared that the, accounts showed no such sums as S45O,000 or any consider able part as having been used or paid to the former general agent. Hall, un- der the inter- ogation of Heney, ex- plained his duties as Secretary to Hal- sey, which consisted, he said, of look ing. after the publicity department and of gathering data on the propositlon.'
 Miss Nellie Smith, a stenographer to Gerstle, Prick and Beedy, the attorneys who represented the Home Telephone company, in the obtaining of fran chise from the supervisors, spent over an hour in the room. She is consider ed one of the most important witnesses regarding the deal in which the Home company is said to have jaid $62,000 to the supervisors through Ruef for their franchise. It is said that all efforts to get information from her have failed.
 The supreme court to-day, on the request of the attorneys of Abraham Ruef, the central figure in the munich pal graft investigation, dismissed Ruefs application for writ of ha- beas corpus to transfer him from the custody of Elisor w. J. Biggy to that of Sheriff O'Neill, and to be taken from the St. Francis hotel to the coun- ty jail
 It leaked out tonight that Ruef late this afternoon paid off three of his attorneys, Farrell, Murphy and Short ridge, which has revived the report that there is dissenslon among them, and that at least one of them, Short ridge, desires to withdraw from the case. This has been denied by Short ridge, who. with Farrell, also disclaim- ed any knowledge of dissension or diff ference of opinion in the Ruef case, Neither Ruef nor any of his attorneys will discuss his case.
 Color is lent to the report persist ently circulated that Burns is working on Ruef to get him to confess.
 Detective Burns and Elisor Biggy ex- amined number of places to-day, and Ruef will be taken from the St. Francis within few days Perhaps no prison CT in the United States to-day is so closely guarded as Ruef Detective Burns has placed six picked men under Biggy to guard Ruef. At night Biggy sleeps in the same room with Ruef, and two guards are on duty in the room. In the event of an attempt at rescue or escape the men have orders to kill Ruef.
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