The daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1906-1907, 1907-05-25
WHOLESALE INDICTMENTS
The Grand Jury in San Francisco
Bring in Nineteen Indictments
Against Prominent People

Against Prominent People
Yesterday in San Francisco nine
leea Indictments aggregating eighty
nine counts were returned against
mayor Eugene E. Schmltz, Abranam
ituef, President Patrick Calhoun and
Assistant to the President Thornwall
Mutually OF the United Railroads and
Attorney TREY l.. Ford and William
NJ. Abbott of that corporation, and
also President Louis Glass and former
agent Theodore B. Hasley of the Pa
cific States Telephone and Telegraph
Company, the last named indictments
being in connection with an alleged
deal by which the established tele-
phone company sought to prevent the
granting of competitive franchise to
The Home Telephone Company.
Fourteen indictments, containing
/ eighty-four counts, were returned
against Schmitz, Ruef, Calhoun, Null
ally, Ford and Abbott, whom the
/ grand jury accused of bribing four
teen supervisors in amounts ranging
from $4,000 to $15,0 600 each, to vote
the change in the franchise Of the
United Railroads by which that cor
poration Immediately after the fire
gained authority to electrify its $50
miles of street railway system in San
Francisco.
Two additional indictments were re-
turned against Schmitz, the one
from Ford and Ruef Dribe of $50
600 for his cooperation in the trolley
deal; the other charging that he
sought and received from Frank G.
Dlumm and Ruef a bribe of $3.50
to approve the vote of the supervisors
fixing the public gas rate for 1906 at
50 instead of IS cents at the behest
of the San Francisco Gas & Electric
Company.
Two indictments were returned
against Louis Glass charging him
: with the bribery of two Supervisors
: who refused to vote a franchise com
petitive with that held by the Pacific
: States Telephone Company. These
e indictments are additional to the nine
r others returned against him severa
T weeks ago in the same connection
t The indictment returned yesterday
a against Halsey is identical with those
Il returned against Glass and with thu
e eleven previously voted agains
Haisey himself,
T The statement was made unofficial
5 " that all but $4,000 of the entir
q amount of bonds, $S9O,00O, will b
forthcoming at the appointed hour tC
20 day. The United Railroads alon
IS will have to put up for its presiden
assistant president and two attorney
- $4,000 in securities, or $4,000
cash. Schmitz, in addition to $4,000
III security he has already given to s.
le cure his liberty pending the trial {
% the FIVE counts of eXtOrtiOn brOugl
~ against him and Ruef jointly, Wi
w have to put up S160,000 in bonds.
~ Ruef would have to put up $4,000
~ but inasmuch as he now is al
for more than two months has bee
20 a prisoner without any immedia
l' hope of release, it is understood tn
he will make no attempt to give ba
''e 1t is said, indeed, that in tn circul
stances and in view of the fact th
IS he has turned states evidence,
'0 prefers to remain the prisoner of L
sor Biggy.
- President Glass of the telepho
corporation aleady has given bon
'e' in the sum of 100000. He will ha
''0 to put up $4,000 more to retain
liberty. Theodore Halsey has put
0'p $11 900 in bonds covering the elev
indictments previously found agar
him. He will have to put up $1O,(
'e' additional tomorrow.
When Foreman Oliver of the gra
no jury filed the nineteen indictments
i'' court, he stated that these were 'ol
a partial report from the grand jur
This Is taken to mean that more
70" dictments are to follow.
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