Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1907-05-25
Indictments Against Calhoun.

The grand jury yesterday returned
the following graft indictments:
Against President Patrick Calhoun,
of the United Railroads; against AS
sistant to the President, Thornwall
Mullaly; against Attorneys Tiery L.
Ford aud w. NJ. Abbott, of the legal
department of the United railways,
fourteen each; against Mayor
Schmitz, sixteen; against Abraham
Ruef, fourteen; against President
Louis Glass, of the Pacific States
Telephone and Telegraph company,
two; against Theodore Halsey. agent
of that corporation.
Ruef, Schmitz. Calhoun. Mullaly.
Ford and Abbott are charged with
bribing fourteen supervisors to grant
the overhead trolley franchise to the
United Railroads. Schmitz is further
charged with bribery in connection
with the fixing of the gas company 5
rate and with receiving $4,000 In the
United Railways franchise deal.
The indictments against Glass are
additional to the eleven indictments
already made against him on the
charge of bribing supervisors to re-
ceive a competitive telephone fran
chise. The indictment against HalseY
is for the same o9ense.
Superior Judge Coffey fixed bail in
the sum of $4,000 on each of the
charges and gave the accused until Il
a. m. tomorrow to furnish bonds.
1t was after o'clock when the
grand jury adjourned from its regu-
lar meeting place in Native Sons hall,
and went in automobiles to Judge
Coffey's department of the superior
court at California and Webster
streets, to enter the nineteen true
bills Attorney A. a. Moore, of the
United railroads legal staff and At
torney Earl Rogers, of Los Angeles,
h. .fsaI
the defense of President Calhoun and
his associates, appeared for the rail-
way corporations.
Two Juror, Absent.
The failure of Jurors Sontagg and
Young to accompany the grand jury
to Judge Coffey's court was not eX-
planned, though their absence was
formally noted. The fact that Mr..
Sontagg and Mr.. Young followed each
other in that order from the grand
jury chamber shortly before the body
started for court and that they ap-
peared to be laboring under excite
ment and anger, gave rise to a report
that the voting of the nineteen indict-
ments was not accomplished without
friction. No confirmation of this
could be obtained.
All VIII Give Bond
The statement was made unofficial
ly that all but $4,000 of the entire
amount of bonds $500 900, will be
forthcoming at the appointed hour
tomorrow The United Railroads
alone will have to put up for its
president assistant to the president
and two attorneys 100000 i'm securi-
ties or $2SO,00O in cash. Schmitz, I'm
addition to the $4,000 security he
has already given to secure his lib
erty, pending the trial of the five
counts Of eXtortion brought against
him and Ruef Jointly, will have To
put up 100000 in bonds. Ruef will
have to put up $l4O, ,00O-but mas
much as he is and for more than two
months has been a prisoner without
any immediate hope of release, it Is
understood that he will make no at
tempt to give bail. II IS said, indeed.
that under the circumstances and in
view of the fact that he turned
states evidence, he prefers 10 remain
the prisoner of Elisor Biggy.
More True Bills to Come.
President Glass, of the telephone
company already has given bonds i'm
the sum of 100000. He will have 10
put up $4,000 more 10 retain his lib
erty. Theodore Halsey has put up
$4,000 in bonds covering the eleven
indictments previously found against
him. He will have 10 put up $4,000
addition tomorrow.
When Foreman oliver of the grand
jury hled the other Indictments iu
court he stated that these were only
"a partial report from the grand
jury" This is taken To mean that
more indictments are 90 follow.