The San Francisco call., 1907-03-31
GIVEN NO HOPE
THAT LENIENCY
WILL BE SHOWN
Magnate Is Refused Com
fort by Those Pros
ecuting
IS FIGHTING ALONE
Colleagues Coldly Point to
Him as the Male
factor
GLASS" EACH SAYS
That None of Them Knew
of Big Check Deemed
Unlikely
GLASS;" EACH SAYS

Louis Glass, director and former
general manager of the Pacific States
Telephone and Telegraph Company,
against whom nine indictments have
been returned for bribing members
of the Board of Supervisors, walked
up to the Grand Jury rooms yesterday
afternoon and made a bid for i'm
munity, but was refused.
4 came up for a definite purpose;
l won't state what that purpose was"
was all that Glass would say for
publication; but the facts were known
and the story was written on the de-
termihed features of the telephone
magnate. All the members OF the ex-
exutive committee of the board of di-
rectors of the Pacific States Tele-
phone and Telegraph Company had
been summoned to give testimony
during the afternoon before the Grand
Jury Glass knew what they were
going to say He knew that each in
turn intended to mount the stand
and say, 81 know nothing of the
$4,000 bribery. Glass must have
handled that money" Glass figured
accurately, for each one in turn told
the same story Each passed the
blame to Glass.
OFFER IS REJECTED
That some members of the execu-
tive committee knew nothing of the
deal with the Supervisors there can
be no doubt, but that one man could
pay out $4,000 without knowledge
or consent of any OF his colleagues
reveals a strange condition in cor
poration management.
Just what Glass intended to tell the
Grand Jury is not known. He
reached the headquarters at Native
Sons Hall, Cough and Geary streets,
at o'clock, just before the session
begun. He greeted some of the mem
bers of the jury in the hall and
walked briskly up the steps. There
he spoke for a few moments with Z.
S. Pillsbury, efellow-director in the
company who had been summoned as
a witness. Glass then walked to the
Grand Jury room and whispered
few words to the doorkeeper His
message was conveyed to Assistant
District Attorney Heney and in
short time a reply was carried to
Glass. His testimony was not wanted.
Glass without delay left the building.
A short time afterward the mil
lionaire directors filed into the Grand
Jury room and told their story. One
story was like the other. All passed
the. matter up to Glass.
TESTIMONY IS STRONG
The testimony on which the indict-
ments were found against Glass was
considered particularly strong. 1t
was shown that Glass had ordered
one OF his subordinates to draw a
check for $50,00O He had instructed
another subordinate to cash it, Sc
cure currency in return and pay the
money to Theodore V. Halsey.
Rooms were rented in the Mills build !
ing and Halsey met the Supervisors
there and paid them for their votes.
The axe of the Grand Jury is again
ready to fall. 1t is swinging but a
hairs breadth over the heads of sew
eral of the big men behind the two
bribe-giving telephone companies, and
when the thread that holds it is
severed by the next vote on indict-
ments lit will descend, not on the
necks Of the hired men and smaller
officials of these companies. but plump
into the ranks of the capitalists.