Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-05-18
RUFF AGAIN
BEFORE JURY
m His Second Appearance He
Testified Regarding Parkside
Traction Co. Deal.
PROMINENT MEN INVOLVED.
star witness Got 100000 and the SUI
pcr,isors Raised Their Price
From $3.50 to $1,000.

SAN Francisco. May 7.-Abraham
pner today. in his second appearance
,ororo the grand jury, testified regard
ing the Parkside Traction company
deal by which, according to the line of
sttack laid down by the prosecution. tho
directorate Of the Parkside corr
poration paid to Ruef the sum of
$40 600 to secure a street railway fran
,bise 10 enhance enormously the value
of tho lots composing the Parkside real
estate tract The Information In the
Dossession of the prosecution Is that OF
his sum $1,000 was to be paid to each OF
The is supervisors for voting the IRAN
chise and that the remainder, Sl2,VOo,
was TO be shared evenly by Ruef ana
Schmitz.
Among the directors and stockholders
of the Parkside Traction company We're
NJ H. Crocker, one of the foremost
,tnitalists of San Francisco; Charles y.
Green. manager of the vast Croker
estate, and an official of the Crockef-
WoolWor;h bank; q. II. Umbren,
,ynalthy real estate man. Douglas Wat
SON the same; f. w. Tillman. whole
sale grocer; wellington Gregg, an Off
ce, Of the Crocker-W oolworth bank.
and Joseph Green, capitalist, VINO was
president of the corporation. All OF
these men were called before the grand
Jury today. The Fact that several OF
them were in the inquisltorial chatn-
her hut a few minutes gave ilse 10
the report that they had refused TO
testify This was not confirmed
A detail of the charge to be pursued
bv the prosecution is that the original
bride agreed upon by each of the lS
supervisors was $3.50. but that when the
Parkside corporation, shortly after tho
urontpn troll
ley instead Of cable franchise, the
price was raised to $1,000 each, and that
the raise was consented to. 1t is fur
Their charged that, the bribery graft
prosecution getting under way at about
this time, the effort to have fran
chse granted was postponed indefinite
ly--and that Ruef retained the $4,000
passed.
Ruef was asked tonight when he
emerged from the grand jury chamber;
Have you made any arrangements TO
return 10 the men and corporations
against whom You Will testify In court
tho various sums OF money paid by
them 10 you for corruption purposes or
as fees in bribery deals?"
He replied: ~ will have statement
to make in that regard little later
When [ stated in Judge DUNES court
on Monday that it was my purpose to
hcnceforth lead a life of rectitude and
10 atone III SO tdG as COulu Tor WHAT
ever of wrong / had done in the past. /
meant what / said. There was not OPP
purtunity then nor was that the best
occasion. to enter into details. But |
shall presently prepare statement
covering your question:
When Ruef entered the grand jury
chamber this evening it was $50
o'clock and he had been waiting in an
ante-room since shortly after 3. Sew
eIal of the grand Jurors, following
The example set by all of them the day
before, rose and grasped the fallen boss
by the hand and expressed a desire TO
help him in any way they could"
Ruef was ON the stand one hour dur
ing nearly all Of which time he gave
testimony regarding the Parkside deal
E-hch, according to the prosecution
program. falls under the criminal cap
tion of attempt to bride public Off
GERS"
The investigation of the alleged brib-
cry of the mayor ana the supervisors by
the United railroads. which formed the
text of Ruefs testimony yesterday was
not resumed today. The gas deal. COM
nrising the charge by the prosecution
that the supervisoral board was bribed
b TN San Francisco Gas a. Electric
company to fix the gas rate for 1906 at
50 instead of 10 cents. was gone into In
the early part of the afternoon session
among the witnesses called being Presi-
dent William b. Bourne and Director
Cyrus Pierce.
At the conclusion of the session,