The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-07-13
TELLS IN DETAIL OF HIS EN-
TRAPMENT AND DOWNFALL
WHILE SUPERVISOR.
SAYS he WAS. OFFERED IMMUNITY
III He Would "Turn Up" His Con-
federates and Make Com
plete Confession.
(By the Associated Press. }

SAN FRANCISCO, July 12.-
Charles Boxton, mayor of San Fran
cisco, head of the department of dem
tistry of the College of Physicians
and Surgeons, twice elected super
visor of the city and county of San
Francisco-the first of the city Off
cials to- fall into the net spread by
the bribery-graft prosecution-tod
on the witness stand in the Glass
trial told in detail the story of his
entrapment last fall at the home of
one Roy, a resturauteur, who, coop
Grating with the prosecution, bought
for $500 his supervisorial vote
against an ordinance prohibiting
child patronage of skating rinks-
only to turn him over to the law.
He told how Spreckels and Heney
and Langdon and Burns land
dozen others outside the doors
S walked in on him and confronted
him with the statements of proof and
threats of punishment; how they Of
fered TO let him go free If he would
turn up his confederates and ac-
completes inside and outside of the
board of supervisors; how he agreed,
and written guarantee of immunity
was drawn up and signed and placed
In Spreckels' pocket; how, at mid
night, they sent him home under es-
cort .in an automobile and thereafter,
for a week, watched each move and
guarded him like prisoner.
Both the direct and crOss-examin-
alton of Mayor Boxton was conducted
within the day. Other witnesses
called in were Homer S. King of the
Bank of California, director of the
Pacific States Telephone company,
and Henry T. Scott and Frank G.
Drumm, respectively president and
directors of that corporation. The
last-named is under Indictment on
charges of bribing fourteen super
visOrs to fix the legal gas rate at IS
cents instead of 65 cents.
Into the examination of Mayor
Boxton, Attorney Delmas injected
the Identification by the witness of
certain court papers connected with
the attempt last fall to remove Dis
trict Attorney Langdon from office.
and appointing in his stead Abraham
Ruef, the presumed object being to
kill the graft investigation in the
bud. The eighteen supervisors, in
Guiding BoxtOn, swore that they were
each and all guiltless of the crimes
of bribe-taking, or any crimes. From
this Delmas can argue to the jury
that Boxton is perjurer, and there
for his testimony against Glass. in
having accepted a bribe from Halsey
of the telephone company. is not
worthy of belief.
The examination of Homer S. King
was to draw from him the statement
in effect that Louis Glass, as acting
president of the Pacific States Tele-
phone company, was the only official |
who had authority to sign checks ald
o. X. disbursements without author
:. it,Zsby the board of directors. The
attempt was moderately successful.
Frank Drum was questioned at
length about his part in 'the rent:ug
of rooms in the Mills building by
Agent Halsey for the alleged purpose
of paying bribe money to the super
visors. He said that he had intro
duced Hasey to Agent Cannon of the
building merely, but he confessed
that in general way he knew from
Halsey that the rooms were to be
used for the interviewing of super
visors on the rival tele ,hone .ubject
and that Halsey desired ,acrecy in
the mater.
The examination of President
Scott was to determine. among
other things, that after the storm OF
the bribery prosecution broke, Glass
shipped Halsey out of San Francisco
in disguise to Manila, gave him a po-
sition there with telephone COM
pany of which Glas is president, also
caused him to be carried on the pay
rolls of the San Francisco company
as pensioner in the sum of $175 a
month. All that Scott would testify
to was that Halsey did go to Manila
and that he (ScotD had put him on
the payroll as stated; that Halsey
was no longer an active employee.
AS Saturday is the Jewish Sabbath
when no court can be held in the
Israel synagogue, adjournment was
taken until Monday.