Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-05-26
Mayor Now Has a Total of $210,OUu
of Bonds Hanging Over
His Person.
SIXTEEN wRITs OF $4,000 EACH
Vice President Louis Glass Of the Pa
cific States Telephone and Tele-
graph Company Is Alleged to
Have Bribed Two Supervisors
in Franchise Deal.

SAN FRANCISCO, May 25.-The grand
jury this afternoon indicted six millonaires
on charges Of bribery and attempted brib-
cry, and returned additional indictments
against Abraham Ruef and Mayor E. e.
Schmitz.
Frank G. Drum, Eugene D. Saba, Abra-
ham. Ruef, John Martin and Mayor Schmitz
wereindicted on fourteen counts each,
charging that they jointly bribed fourteen
of the eighteen supervisors in the sum of
$3.50 each to fix the gas rate for 1908 at
IS cents instead of IS cents
G. M. Umbsen. B. E, Green, w. /. Bro
beck and Ruef were indicted on fourteen
tempted to bride fourteen supervisors in the
sum of $1,000 each to vote a trolley fran
chise to the Parkside Transit Company
Judge Corey fixed bail at 10000 on each
of the 126 counts contained IN the indict-
ments.
Millionaires and multi -millionaires, presi-
dents and vice presidents, and lesser off,
Gals Of great corporations today thronsed
Judge Coffey's court room to give bail In
excess Of half a mtlIion dollars to procure
personal liberty pending trial on indict-
ments returned against them yesterday by
a grand jury.
First came Louis Glass. vice president Of
the Pacific States Telephone and Telegraph
Company, who gave bond in the sum of
10000 on the charge of bribing two super
vie TO IA fov
peting telephone franchise in San Fran
cisco.
Charged With Bribing Supervisors.
President Patrick Calhoun and Assistant
President Mutually of the United Railways
Investment Company and General Counsel
TREY L. Ford and Assistant Counsel Will
liam L. Abbott OF that corporation, each of
them indicted on fourteen counts on the
charge Of bribing thirteen supervisors and
Mayor schmitz to grant trolley franchise
under which the United Railways was cleo
trif1ed. William H. Croker, president Of
the Croker National Bank, and foremost
capitalist of San Francisco, and President
Henry T. Scott Of the Pacific States Tele-
PiloAO anu 1CiSSAdpA Company WSIe III
court to furnish personal bail of $5e0.Ooo
for Calhoun, Mutually. Ford and Abbott.
Arrangements. however, had already been
made with a surety company OF New York.
whose attorney handed to Judge Coffey
fifty-six bonds for $4,000 each. Attorney
Schlessinger appeared and gave bail for
Theodore v. Halsey of the Pacific States
Telephone and Telegraph Company. in
dicted upon the same. charges brought
against Vice President Glass.
us there any one here to represent Mayor
Schmitz?" inquired Judge Coffey.
No one answered.
Gave 100000 Bail.
Schmitz had to give 100000 bail bonds in
addition to the $4,000 bonds already put
up by him on five indictments charging him
with extortion.
After much delay Mayor Schmitz. ac-
companied by two attorneys, 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 of $4,000 each They were
approved by the district attorney and ac-
cepted by the court. Mr.. Fairall. Schmitz's
attorney, was asked to explain the mayors
hardness. He replied:
ut takes some time to prepare sixteen
separate bail bonds: Any idea that the
mayor experienced the slightest difficulty in
arranging for security is wholly incorrect"
Before leaving the court room Mayor
Schmitz said:
II have no statement to make at this
time further than this: The charges
brought against me are absolutely false and
malicious shall prove my entire inno-
cence in the court"