Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-08-24
SALT LAKE GETS
IN GLASS TRIAL
,elmas Particular to Place Pick
erneIl in This City in
January 1906.
BRIBERY HERE INSULATED.
Sudden Development in San Fran
cisco Affair Assumes Special In
eerest Throughout Utah.

San Francisco, Aug. 23.---Alfred ].
Stice, formely an official OF the Pacific
States Telephone company. wac called
at witness for the prosecution on
the resumption of the Glass bribery
trial this morning. He testified that
The was assistant general manager of
the corporation under Louis Glass at
the period of the alleged briberies. and
that Theodore v. Halsey, as "opposi-
,tion agent" worked directly under
MR.. Glass. Mr.. Stice said he accom-
panied Henry T. Scott to Portland in
February of 1906. Immediately after
the selection of the latter by President
Fish of the American Telephone and
Telegraph company to be president
of the Pacific States company, sue
ceeding the late John J. Sabin.
AT that time" said the witness, in
response to a question by Mr.. Heney.
"Mr. Scott had no practical knowledge
of the telephone business"
Mr.. Stice strengthened the "elimina-
ton process" OF the prosecution by
stating that in January and February
OF 1906 Mr.. Scott was not In active
charge of the company. The super
visors are alleged to have been bribed
by Halsey in the latter month. Speak
ing of the coming to San Francisco of
Mr. Pickernell. assistant to President
Fish, to organize the coast company,
Stice said: IF you will allow the ex-
preston, the condition of the Pacific
Telephone company at that time was
rotten. For one thing. 1t was the
rule of employees to go over the heads
of their direct superiors. l know, be-
cause L drew up the organization
charge which indicated diagram
atlcally the official superiors and sub
ordinates of the system"
SALT LAKE MENTIONED.
without divulg1ng the purpose. Dell
mas drew from Stice with much care
the testimony that Mr.. Pickernell was
to have met himself and President
Scott at Portland in January of 1905,
and returned with them to San Fran
cisco. but that he failed to do so be-
cause he was delayed in Salt Lake
City. To Heney the inference of this
was that Pickernell's task In the Utah
metropolis might have been the brib-
ing of public officials. inasmuch as
strong opposition was being advanced
there by the Home Telephone COM
psny. and that II he bribed Salt Lake
officials a reasonable superstition
would be that he subsequently au-
thorized the bribing of San Francisco's
supervisors.
STUDYING SITUATION.
To offset this covert suggestion to
the jury, Heney asked Stice:
what WIS Plckernell doing in Salt
Lake? Do you know"
HE was engaged there in looking
into the opposition situation. l be-
lieve, l know that only from hear
say"
who told you so? Glass?"
HE may have"
POINTED QUESTION.
"was Pickernell in Salt Lake brib-
ing supervisors-Did Glass tell you
that"
No, Mr.. Glass didn't tell me that,
and I don't know that it is true"
John f. Cannon, for IL years in
the employment OF o, ID. Mills. testi-
fled as sub-agent of the Mills build
ing he rented to Agent Halsey for tenn
rooms in that building, in which, ac-
cording to the confessions of the
supervisors. some of the telephone
brides were paid.
President Henry 4. Scott of the Pa
citlc Telephone and Telegraph COM
pany was called by Mf. Heney. he
wore jauntily white carnaton in his
coat and blushed violently during the
administration of the oath.
The glst of his testimony was that
he had accepted the presidency of the
corporation at the hands Of President
Fish OF the American Bell Telephone
company in January of 1906. on the
condition that he should not assume
its duties until after his return from a
trim To NpW York and the hooks had
been exported. He left San Francisco
for the east a few days after the al
legged payment of the last brides. Adj
tournment was taken until Monday at
10 a m. at which time Mr.. Scott will
resume the stand.