The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-05-25
CALHOUN WILL
STAND IN DOCK
Fourteen indictments Returned
Against President of San
Francisco Railways.
SAME AGAINST mutually
SCHMiTz, RUFF AND OTHERS
ARE INCLUDED.

San Francisco, May 24.-The Specu-
lation that has been rife for weeks as
TO what the grand jury would do in the
matter Of indicting high corporation Of
1icials and municipal officers for alleged
bribery in connection with the grant
ing of the overhead trolley franchise to
the United Railroads, ended tonight
when the inquisitorial body returned
nineteen indictments of eighty-nine
,counts. charging the crimes of giving
lsnd accepting brides and naming as
guilty the following persons;
Mayor Eugene F. Schmitz. Abraham
i1tuef, President Patrick Calhoun and
assistant to the president. ThornweIl
Mutually Of the United Railroads. and
Attorneys TREY L. Ford and William
M Abbott of that corporation, and also
president Louis Glass and former Agent
Theo 3. Halsey of the Pacific Telephone
iS Telegraph company, the last-named
indictments being in connection with
"a deal by which the established tele-
phone corporation sought to prevent
the granting of a competitive franchise
TO the Home Telephone company.
Fourteen Joint Indictments.
4 Fourteen indictments, containing
ARighty-fOur counts. were returned Joint
ilys against Schmitz, Ruef, Calhoun.
Mutually. Ford and Abbott. whom the
flgTand jury accused of bribing fourteen
supervisors in amounts ranging from
$4,000 TO $4,000 each, to vote the change
in the franchise of the United Railroads
by which that corpora ton Immediately
after the fire gained authority 10 cleo
i1rify its $50 miles of street railway sys-
lem in San Francisco.
Two additional indictments were re-
furned against Schmitz, the one charg-
he r1af
ford and Ruef a bride Of $5O, 900 for his
corporation in the trolley DEAL the
other charging that he sought and re-
ceiVed from Frank @. Drum and Ruef
a bride of S3.250 to approve the vote of
The supervisorial board fixing the pub
lie gas rate for 1906 at 81 instead of 75
cents at the behest of the San Fran
cisco Gas & Electric company.
Two indictments were returned
against Louis Glass charging him with
the bribery of two supervisors who re-
fused TO vote a franchise competitive
with that held by the Pacific States
Telephone company. These indictments
are additional TO the zine others re-
turned against him several weeks ago
in the same connection. The indict-
ment returned today against Halsey is
sdentical with those returned against
Glass, and with the eleven previously
Voted against Halsey himself.
Attorneys in Waiting.
1t was after 3 o'clock when the grand
Jury returned from its regular meeting
place III Native Sons hall and went in
automobiles to Judge Coffey's depart
anent of the superior court at California
and Webster streets to enter the nine
teen true bills. Attorneys a. A. Moore
of the United Railroads legal staff and
Attorney Earl Rogers of Los Angeles.
who mas been especially engaged for
the defense of President Calhoun and
his associates, appeared for the railway
corporation. Other than a few LAWYERS
several newspaper men and seventeen
of the nineteen members of the grand
jury. there was no audience present
Judge Coffey announced, after running
his eye over the indictments that he
would fix bail in the sum of $4,000 on
each of the eighty-nire counts He
gave the accused until II O'Clock to-
morrow morning to furnish bonds and
remarked that he would accept in lieu
Ahereof cash bail of 5000 on each count.
a ssurance was given that pending the
arrangement of bail no arrests will be
made by the prosecution; so the nine
men accused of the giving or taking of
brides are at liberty on their own re-
cognizance until tomorrow.
The failure Of Jurors Sonntag and
Continued on Page 2.