Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-22
BRLBE CHECKS
ARE TRACED
WITNESS INTIMATES MONEY
CAME FROM GLASS
PROSECUTION GETS TESTIMONY
ADMITTED
Heney and DeImas Again EnIiven
Proceedings by an Inter-
a change of Sharp
Retorts
BY Associated Press.


SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 21.-When the
Glass bribery trial was resumed this
morning in Judge Lawlor's court, Secre-
Treasurer F. W. Eaton of the Pacific
States Telephone and Telegraph company
continued the reading of the minutes OF
meetings of the board of directors of the
company; the prosecutions object being
to show by them that Louis Glass as
vice-president and general manager OF
that corporation had authority to sign
the checks on which the alleged bribe
money was obtained.
This occupied the entire forenoon ses-
sion, the only incident breaking the mo-
notony of the proceedings being brief
passage between Assistant District At
torney Heney and Attorney D. M
Delmas.
1--WE will prove by these minutes" said
Heney, that Louis Glass was the ruling
spirit of the telephone corporation"
$50 you say" remarked Delmas, ''but
we do not admit it to be fact"
The reading of minutes by Mr.. Eaton
was continued at the afternoon session
Record evidence that the disbursement OF
the $4,000 alleged bribe moneys was not
reported to the board of directors, so far
as the minutes of that body show, was
allowed by the court over the standing
objection of the defense. This evidence
was offered as corroborative of the claim
of the prosecution that Mr.. Glass pos
sessed and exercised the power to author
ize bribes.
Late in the afternoon the prosecution
harried increasingly by objections from
the defense, ELECTED from Eaton sew
eral reluctant admissions supporting
strongly the course of elimination by
which it is intended to prove the re-
sponsibility of Mr.. Glass for the issu-
ing of checks on which the alleged bribe
funds were ordered.
Remembers Check Incident
Mr. Eaton remembered that in February
of 1906, within a day or two of the pay
ing of the alleged bribes to supervisors
by Agent Halsey, orders for checks ag-
gregating $4,000 were sent to the wit
ness from upstairs" unaccompanied by
vouchers explaining their purpose. He
drew these checks and sent them 'up-
stairs" but who ordered them drawn an6
who subsequently signed them he could
not remember at all. Mr.. Eaton admitted
that he had not reported the ordering O
| these checks to any of the company o
to the board of directors. Though HI
wasSpositivei that he had been very care
| full to enter up all checks by him drawn
| he could not remember whether he hat
entered these particular checks. The
books of entry were destroyed in the fire
of the succeeding April.
Mr.. Eaton testified that at the time
these checks were drawn, Mr.. Glass was
general manager of the telephone COM
pany and in the absence of President
Scott who had gone east for month
or six weeks, was acting as chief ex-
ecutlve.
He remembered in rather hazy way
that Immediately before the departure
of Mr.. Scott luncheon was given to
the executive officers of the company
at the San Francis hotel by President
Fish of the American Telephone and Tel
egraph company, which owns 81 per cent
of the stock of the Pacific corporation;
that at that meeting Mr.. Fish announced
his selection of Mr.. Scott as president
of the Pacific States Telephone and Tel
egraph company to succeed John l.
Sabin, deceased. and that the announce
ment was made of Mr.. Scott's accept
ance on the condition that he be not
required to assume any of the duties of
the president until after his return from
the east.