The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-02
CALHOUN IN THE
PRISONER DOCK
President of United Railroads
of San Francisco Arraigned
for Bribery.
OTHERS IN THE SAME BOAT
GREAT ARRAY OF LEGAL TALL
EMIT ON HAND.
OTHERS IN THE SAME BOAT

San Francisco, June 1.-The spot
light of the municipal bribery graft
prosecution was focused today on the
hare and dingy court room of Superior
Judge Dunno in the Temple Israel, at
California and Webster streets, where,
Judge Lawlor of the criminal depart
ment presiding, millionaire captains of
industry and their lesser co-defendants
were gathered for arraignment and de-
Tense, attended and supported by law
yers of national repute from New York
and Chicago. San Francisco and other
California cities. Dolphin NJ. Delmas of
Thaw-White celebrity, and T. c. Coo
gan appeared i'm defense of Vice Pres
ident Louis Glass and Special Agent
Theodore V. Halsey of the Pacific
States Telephone & Telegraph COM
pany, called to answer to grand jury
indictments accusing them of having
bribed members of the board of super
Visors to vote against the awarding of
Il competitive franchise to the Home
Telephone company. This was Mr.. Del
mas first active appearance IN the
bribery cases.
Chicago Lawyer in the Co..
: Moritz RosenthaI of Chicago. whose
DflllldlI regal QeIeISe OF standard NBll
interests in the criminal courts of Illi-
nois made his Eame known throughout
the country. sat at the counsel table
with former Judge A. A. Moore and his
son, Stanley Moore, in behalf of Pres
ident Patrick Calhoun of the United
Railroads, Assistant President and
General Manager Thornwell Mutually,
Chief Counsel TREY L. Ford and AS
sistant Counsel William Abbott. all ac-
Il. 4 -
Mayor Eugene Z. SchTnitz of the crime
of bribing supervisors to vote FOR the
trolley franchise. under authority of
which the United Railroads was
changed from a cable to an electric
system right after the April fire.
Counsel for Ruef and schmltz.
For Ruef there appeared State Sen
atoT George X Keane. Richard O'Con-
ner and w. T. Hume, while the indicted
mayor was represented by former
Judges J. G. Campbell and Charles II.
Fairall and Frank Drew and John j.
Barrett.
Present for the state were Assistant
District Attorney Francis J. Honey,
Harrison & O'Gara and c. w. Cobb,
Mr. Heney's law partner.
Special Agent William ]. Burns. who
furnished the bulk of the evidence,
which will be offered in the court
against the accused. and Rudolph
Spreekels. financial guarantor of the
whole bribery graft investigation and
prosecution. were in attendance, as was
Elisor w. ]. Buggy, in whose custody
is Ruef. the fallen political boss, who
lately turned states evidence. The
small court room was packed. The &C
cused men sat in row back of the
counsel table.
Glass and HaIsey First Called.
Vice President Glass and Agent Hal
sey OF the telephone company, who
were arraigned several days ago, were
the first to be called to answer Mr..
Delmas, replying, read a motion to set
aside the indictments, on purely formal
and technical and grounds.
After brief consultation, Joined in
by opposing counsel and the court,
Judge Lawlor announced that, begin
ming next Monday, he viii sit each day
at p. m. to hear arguments on Tie
motion
n Mr.. Delmas then made formal de-
1 mand for full transcript of all the
testimony reported by the grand jury
photographers. Mr.. Delmas requested
a written identification of this tran
script, a bulky typewriter volume. in
order that no future dispute as to the
authenticity might arise during the
cross-examination of the states wit
Hesses BY the defense. After this had
been agreed to, Mr.. Delmas and his
clients left the court room.
DetwiIer Escaped.
Judge LawlOr then called the cases
against Abraham K. Detwiler. the Chic
millionaire fugitive from justice, whom
the grand jury has indicted on thirteen
counts charging the bribery of SUPER
visOrs in behalf of the Home Telephone
company.
as there any report as to the arrest
of this defendant" asked the court.
None, your honor" replied Mr.. Cobb.
The cases were continued until Monday.
though Detective Burns and his men
have searched far and wide and high
and low, they have failed utterly, they
admit, to discover Detwiler's hiding
place.
Calhoun in the Dock.
Patrick Calhoun. ThornweIl Mutually.
Tirey l.. Ford and William Ford and
William Abbott were then arraig1ed.
only the first of the fourteen ;ndi.t-
ments against them being read in fun
by the clerk. Each of the others was
read by Judge Lawlor by title merely.
10 save time. Each of the defendants
was granted until Saturday, June S, at
10 a. m. TO answer.
More trouble arose here over the de-
livery 40 the defense of transcript
copies of the testimony before the
grand jury. but il was finally adjusted
by stipulation to accept four copies in
stead of sixty-four, the prosecution and
court endorsing on the copies an iden-
tification guaranty.
In the attendant discussion the fact
was for the first time officially admitted
that no stenographic report of Ruefs
testimony given few days after he
pleaded guilty and announced his in
tention of serving the prosecution, had
been taken.
Sc nitz and Ruef.
Mayor SchmltZ and Ruef were the
next defendants to be arraigued On in
d:ctments Identical with those returned
against the officials of tine United Rail-
roads. The former was granted until
Thursday, June s, at 4:30 p. m, and the
latter until Friday. June Z. at the sane
hour to answer. Testimony transcripts