Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-28
To Deceive Newspapers

jury?" persisted Heney.
To Deceive Newspapers
Again Delmas objected and again was
overruled mo" said Boxton, "as un-
derstood 1t. he wanted to throw the news
papers off the scent. 1t is considered
perfectly legitimate to deceive the news
papers. possibly to the extent of false
OATH"
Godfrey L. wakeman, paying teller of
the Bank of California; Joe G. Lipman,
bookkeeper of the Bank of San Francis
CO. and Charles H. Mccormick, paying
teller of the First National bank, of which
Rudolph Spreckels is president, at the
afternoon session produced letters OF the
Pacific States Telephone and Telegraph
company and the Sunset Telephone COM
pany and the corporation which absorbed
them the Pacific Telephone and Tele-
graph company, opening accounts author
izing the honoring of checks signed as
follows: BY H. T. Scott, president, or e.
j. thinner for the president, or Louis
Glass, vice president, and by F. w. Eaton,
treasurer or by w. J. Kennedy for the
treasurer
The object of this testimony was to
show that during this period OF the al
legged briberies no checks of the telephone
company could have been cashed unless
signed by either Glass or thinner in view
Of the testimony of Mr.. Scott that he did
not take charge as president until after
the expiration of that period, but the
force of this line of reasoning was some
what impaired by the fact that some OF
these letters of authorization bore the
signature of Scott as president.
Some of the account record cards pro-
duced by the witnesses were so charred
and blackened by the April fire as to be
almost undecipherable.
s. M. Masten of the Crocker National
bank and A. d. Lockwood of the Bank
of California gave similar testimony.
The prosecution announced that it ex-
poets to close its case tomorrow. If the
defense follows the same tactics that it
did at the first trial and offers no evil
dence, the arguments should commence
Thursday and the case should go to the
jury within week.
Former Mayor Schmitz appeared before
Judge Dunno this morning expecting to
hear decision on the merits of his de-
murrers to the indictments charging him
with accepting bribes from the United
Railroads and the gas company. Judge
Dunno was not ready to hand down hs
decision, stating that other business was
engaging his time. 1t may be several
weeks before the ruling is made.
G. H Umbsen, w. l. Brobeck and
Joseph E. Green. indicted for offering
bribes to supervisors in behalf of the
Parkside Realty company, we're present
in Judge Dunne's court this morning
when their case was called.
Assistant District Attorney William
Hoff Cook presented the minutes of Judge
Graham's court as amended, which he
asked to be made a part of the record
before the motions to quash were de-
cided Judge Dunno admitted the record
and announced that he would make no
rulings until after the supreme court
should pass upon the motions that have
been made here.
The appeal taken by the board of
supervisors from the decision of
Superior Judge Seavell restraining them
from molesting District Attorney Lang
don in the discharge of his duties, was
dropped from the calendar by the court
of appeals this morning at the request |
of Attorney C. w. Cobb.
At the evening session in the Glass |
trial the prosecution, by means Of docu- |
evidence and Councilman Frank |
r. Thompson of Oakland, endeavored to |
show that the Pacific States Telephone
company sought to keep the Home Tele- |
phone company out of Oakland. Letters
addressed to the Oakland supervisors on
the subject and signed by Louis Glass
were introduced.
Mr. Delmas caused surprise by produc- |
ing a voucher payable to Halsey and ap- |
proved by President Scott. The receipts
were also signed by Halsey and approved
by Scott.
Attorney E. S. Pillsbury was called for
cross-examination by Mr.. Delmas and
asked regarding his failure to resign as
counsel for the Pacific States Telephone |
company after the engagement of Abe
Ruef, as he threatened to do Mr. Pills
bury said he thought the matter over and |
concluded to remain.