Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-25
SENSATIONS IN
SAN FRANCISCO
WILL CONTINUE
Grand Jury'S LabOrS
Only Begun
Probing Of Municipal Graft, Now
Well Under Way, to Be Carried
on RelentIessIy by the
Prosecution
Rv Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 2i.-The
coming week promises to be as pro-
ductive as the past one in sensations
relating to the investigation of mu-
nicipal corruption that is being prose-
cuted by q grand jury
It is expected that decision will be
rendered tomorrow by the United
States supreme court on the petition
of Abraham Ruef for a writ of er-
ror.
II RueFs petition is refused the prose-
cution will proceed in Superior Judge
Dunne's court Thursday with the i'm
parchment of a jury to try Ruef on
the charge of extortion, in what Is
known as the French restaurant cases
If it is granted the trial of Ruef Will
be postponed a while.
Tomorrow afternoon the grand jury
will resume it's probing into the al
legged bribing of. the board of super
visors by the telephone and other pub
lie service corporations.
viii Intercept HaIsey
lit IS announced IUdL lilG plOSSS0tAOAA
has retained an attorney to proceed to
Honolulu and intercept Theodore ".
Halsey, who has been indicted on
eleven counts on the charge of bribery,
for the purpose of endeavoring to per-
suade Halsey to appear before the
grand jury on his arrival here.
Halsey is now en- route from Manila
in charge of a detective.
The prosecution is momentarlly ex-
kI.A nf
Glass. former manager of the Pacific
states Telephone and Telegraph COM
pany and Abram K. Detweiler of To-
ledo, Ohio, against whom indictments
for bribery were returned yesterday. In
addition to the revelations coming
from the grand jury room, pubic IN
terest is directed toward the moral re-
generation of the city in view OF the
alleged confessions of corruption by
the members of the board or supervls-
ors.
one story is to the effect that the
supervisors before appearing before
the grand jury secured pledges from
the prosecuting officials that they
would neither be prosecuted nor re-
moved. from Office in return for evi-
dence.
An intimation that those back of the
prosecution were planning to assume
control OF municipal dIdlio ny WI
of their power over the supervisors is
strongly denied at the district attor-
ney's Office.
Assistant District Attorney Heney
said:
Supervisors Must Be Good
'All we intend to do is to see that
the supervisors behave themselves
properly in their official positions.
1--WE do not intend to try to legislate
through them for any purpose. we
shall simply force them to be good and
to discharge the functions of their office
to the best interests of the people.
personally, 1 believe it is right to
give men a chance to rehabilitate them
selves if possible, and L think that II
the supervisors wish to become better
men, as they have expressed desire
to be, they should have chance"
AS to the prosecution controlling the
municipal commissions and other de-
partments of the government through
the finance committee of the board OF
supervisors, Heney declared that there
will be no attempt to do this.
Those who favor a reorganization OF
the municipal government recognize
that it will be a lengthy process tc
brings it about through the courts, but
are hopeful that public opinion will
force wholesale designations, thus solv-
ing an embarrassing question.