Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-26
BIG FISH In THE NET
Six hilhOnsires Are Indicted BY ra1
Francisco Grand Jury,
CHARGE IS BRIBERY OF OFFICIALS
Tventy-BiSht Bills ocntSining l26 Counts
Are Returned.
GROW OUT or TRAc lion AND GAS DEALS
Six OrPOrstiOn and Two City officials on
the List.
GROW OUT OF TRACTION AND GAS DEALS
MEN INDICTED FRIDAY GIVE BOND
Trolley, Telephone aud City omciaIs
and Their Attorneys ThrOnE
Judge Coney's Court
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| SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. May z-Six more
! mllllonaires and multi-millionaires some Of
them well known throughout the country
! fell under the accusation Of the oliver
grand jury this evening when that body,
just before an adjournment until June 10,
! returned fourteen indictments Jointly
I against O. II. Umbsen. j. e. Green and w
l. Brobeck, charging them with attempted
bribery Of public officials, and fourteen In
! dictments Jointly against Frank @. Drum
Eugene De Saba and John Martin. oharg-
ing them with bribery Of public oficials.
With the former group Abraham Ruef. the
fallen political boss Of San Francisco, was
jointly indicted; with the latter group Ruef
and Mayor Schmitz
In all twenty-eight indictments were
found today, containing 12B counts and call
ing for bail bonds in the total sum Of
81, 10000
| Umbsen, Green, Brobeck and Ruef are
accused by the grand jury OF offering a
bribe Of 1900 each to Supervisors Boxton,
! Coffey, Coleman, Davis, Dutfey, FNurey
Gallagher, Harrigan, Kelly, Lonergan,
| Mamlock, McGushin, Phillips and Walsh
on NovembeI1o, 1906. to award 10 the Park
side Transit company a street railway
| franchise. This franchise was voted De-
cember 81, 1906 but the Spreckles, Heney-
Burns bribery graft investigation getting
under way at about that time the Parkside
! deal was abandoned and no money was
passed. say the prosecutors.
+ Gas Deal indictments.
The indictments against Drum, Desabls,
Martin, Ruef and Schmitz charge them
with giving a bribe of $3.50 each to super
visors in consideration of their vote, cast
/ March II. 1906. by which the legal gas rate
| for 1eO6-0T was fixed at IS cents instead of
/ 7b cents Frank @. Drum is manager of
| the Tevis estate, one OF the largest prop
critics IN the west He is a member of the
executive committee of the Board OF Di-
rectors of the San Francisco Gas & Elec-
trio company and Of the Bay Cities Water
company and occupied an Identical office
] In the Parkside Transit company. Eugene
I De Babla is a director in and was formerly
1 president Of the Gas g. Electric company.
John Martin is closely associated with
De Saba in many interests. Each is many
! times a millionaire
Each OF the six corporation officals in
dicted today will be called on Monday to
furnish bail bonds In the sum of $4,000
! So will the mayor. Ruefs bail required
will be $4,000. This Is a total OF 100000.
! The grand total of the bail demanded on
all of the 335 indictments for bribery, at
! tempted bribery, extortion, conspiracy and
perjury this far returned by the oliver
grand jury as the net partial results OF it's
Investigations into municipal corruption is
1 g. $4,000.
Indicted Men Give Bond.
Millionaires and multi-millionaires. presi-
dents and vice presidents and lesser off,
cials of great corporations today thronged
Judge Coffey's court room with their attor-
neys and attendants They had been sum-
moned to give bail in excess Of 10000 to
insure their personal liberty pending trial
on felony Indictments Ieturne agains. them
by grand jury.
First came Louis Glass, vice president
of the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph
company. to give bonds in the sum OF So
900 on the charge OF bribing two of the
supervisors to vote with their associates
against the granting of a competing tele-
phone franchise In San Francisco Mr..
Glass was represented by Attorney Coogan,
who handed to Judge Coffey two bonds for
$4,000 each, given by a surety company of
San Francisco.
President Patrick Calhoun and assistant
TO President Mutually OF the United Rail-
roads, General Counsel Tirey L. Ford and
Assistant Counsel William L. Abbott of
that corporation, each OF them indicted
on fourteen counts on the charge of brib-
ing thirteen supervisors and Mayor
/ SchmitE to grant a trolley franchise. un-
der which the United Railroads system
was electrified and is operated, appeared
in company with Attorneys A. A. Moore
and Stanley Moore Of the United Rail-
roads Moritz Rosenthal of Chicago and
Earl Rogers of Los Angeles, all OF whom
will take an active part in the defense
OF the United Railroads officials hence
forth.
william H. Crocker, president OF the
Crocker National bank Of this city and
recognized as the foremost capitalist OF
San Francisco. and President Henry T.
Scott Of the Pacific States Telephone and
Telegraph company, were in court to fur
nish personal bail-cash or bonds-in the
sum Of S6s0,OOo for Mr.. Calhoun, Mr..
Mutually, Mr.. Ford and Mr.. Abbott. Ar
rangements however. had already been
made with the Metropolitan Surety com
pany Of New York. and today Attorney
Rogers handed to Judge Coffey ffty-six
separate bonds for $4,000 each. After
Judge coffey had signed his approval
hfty-six times he nodded to the million
aire defendants and said:
Gentlemen, that is ALL" and the lat
ter, with their counsel. withdrew.
Attorney sohlessinger appeared for
Theodore V. Halsey OF the Pacific States
Telephone and Telegraph company, in
dicted on the same charges brought
against Vice President Glass.
As Abraham Ruef Is prisoner on
charges OF extortion. to which he has
pleaded guilty, and as st is understood that
he prefers the safety of Elisor Riggs
Fillmore street prison house 10 liberty, his
failure TO appear In court today created
no surprise.
Mayor sehmits Appears.
Later, Mayor schmitz. accompanied by
two OF his attorneys. and by President
Thomas williams OF the New California !
Jockey club. and President William A. |
Dingey of the Contra Costa Water COM
pany, entered the court room and offered
sixteen bonds for f00OO each. They were
approved by the district attorney and ac-
cepted by the court Mr.. Fairali, Sohmitz's |
ACns,fNnrad an Ga,anA paral