Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1907-07-20
PROSECUTION
IS FAVORED
JUDGE DECIDES TO ADMIT "sIMI.
LAR oFFENsEs"
LAWYERS INDULGE IN BITTER
PERSONALITIES
Smallpox Breaks Out in Wing Of the
County jail Where Schmitz
and thinner Are Con.
fined
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO July 19.-Arguments
by opposing counsel in the Glass case
over the admissibility as evidence of
''similar offenses" of the testimony of
ten of the members of the board of super
visors that they accepted brides from T.
v. Halsey to vote against an ordinance
granting a competitive franchise to the
Home Telephone company, eventuated
this afternoon in a decision by Judge
Lawlor, the effect of which is almost en-
tirely in favor of the prosecution.
Judge Lawlor ruled that it is proper to
admit the evidence referred to as con-
shutting proof of a general conspiracy on
the part of Louis Glass, as vice president
and general manager of the Pacific States
Telephone and Telegraph company, to
bribe a certain number of supervisors to
defeat the ordinance; that the prosecu-
ton is entitled to show by such evidence
the criminal motive Of the defendant,
Glass. in the carrying out of the alleged
conspiracy out of which grew his indict-
ment on the crime at bar.
Indulge in Personalities
The days arguments gave rise to bitter
personalities between Assistant District
Attorney Francis j. Heney and Attor-
ney Dolphin M. Delmas.
the admissibility of evidence of similar
offenses" Heney turned loose the walls of
vituperation on Delmas.
Seldom If ever in the courts of san
Francisco-save in the presence of jury
has so bitter denunciation been direct
ed by one attorney against another.
In one breath Heney sarcastically point
ed out Delmas as a ''would-be Napoleon
of the barr and in the next breath he
leaped to the other extreme of metaphor
and likened the venerable leader of the
Thaw defense to rhinoceros, whose
hide is so thick that the blush of inno-
cence cannot rise to the surface"
When the passionate echoes of the as
sistant district attorneys voice had died
away in the still synagogue, Delmas rose
to reply.
Henev he described as "a human
bloodhound filled with the lust of prose-
cution, obsessed with the desire to intiict
pain.
At another point Delmas said, his fer
vent voice ringing in the four corners OF
the room:
"Isthank God that I am still able to
travel up and down in the country with
out the protection of bodyguards.
s'rm not afraid of you!' cried Heney.
mo" answered Delmas, ''the learned
gentleman from Arizona has still to keep
an engagement with Mr.. w. H. Metson.
There he can perhaps satisfy his lust
for encounter without having recourse to
one twice his age"
Smallpox in Jail
Immediately after adjournment, which
was taken until Monday morning. Sheriff
O'Neill informed Judge Lawlor that
smallpox had broken out in wing OF
the county Jail, where both Mayor
Schnnitz and Vice President Emil ]. zim-
= - of the Pacific States Telephone com
pany are confined, the former under con-
viction of extortion, the latter under a
five days sentence for contempt OF court
which expires at 1890 o'clock tomorrow
afternoon.
Judge Lawlor instructed the sheriff that
no prisoner shall be allowed to leave the
Jail until assurance is given the court
by Health Officer Watkins that there is
no danger of infection being carried. This
order may result in the indefinite confine-
ment of thinner, who otherwise would
be brought into court tomorrow after
noon and given another chance to testify
against Glass and so remove his recall
citrancy.