Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-07-13
BOXTON TELLS OF
HIS ENTRAPMENT
At Home Of One Roy, a Restau-
rateur, He Fell for Five
Hundred Dollars.
THEN TURNED OVER TO LAW.
Officers With Statements of Proof, Of
fcring to Let Him 60 10 He Would
Turn on Confedcrntes.

San Francisco. Cal. July 13,--Mayor
Charles Boxton. major of volunteers in
the Spanish war, head of the depart
rnent OF dentistry of the college OF
physician and surgeons, twice elected
supervisor of the city and county of
san Francisco the first of the officials to
fall into the net spread by the bribery
graft prosecution today on the witness
stand, In the Glass trial, told in detail
the story of his entrapment last fall at
the horne of one Roy. a restaurrteur,
who. cooperating with the prosecution,
bought for $500 his supervisorial vote
against an ordinance prohibiting child
patronage of skating rlnls--only TO
turn him over to the law
lie told how Spreckels and Heney
and Langdon and Burns land a dozen
others outside the DOORS" walked in
on him and confronted him with state
ments of proof and threats of punish
ment; how they offered to let him go
free If he would turn up" his confed-
crates and accomplices inside and out
side OF the board of Supervisors. how
he agreed, and a written guaranty of
immunity was drawn up and signed and
placed III Spreckels' pocket how, at
midnight, they sent him home under
escort III an automobile, and thereafter
for a week watched and guarded him
like prisoner.
Both the direct and cross-cxamnation
of Mayor BoXton was concluded within
the day. Other witnesses called were
President Homer S. King of the Bank
of California, a director of the Pacific
States Telephone and Telegraph COM
pany. and Henry T. Scott and Frank
G. Drum, respectively. president and
director OF that corporation. The last
named Is under indictment on charges
of bribing Ia supervisors 10 fix the legal
gas rate as 20 instead of S. cents.
Into the cross examination of Mayor
Boxton, Atty. Delmas injected the
Identification by the witness of GER
tain court papers connected with the
attempt last fail TO remove Dist. Atty.
Langdon from office and appoint In
his stead Abraham Ruef the presumed
object being to kill the graft investl-
cation In the bud. The Is supervise
ors, including Boxton, swore that they
We're each and all guiltless Of the
crimes of bride taking or OF any
crimes; from this Delmas can argue
TO the jury that Boxton IL n perjurer,
and therefore his testimony against
Glass in having accepted a bride from
Halsey of the telephone company is
not worthy or Dellef.
The examination of Homer S, King
was to draw from him the statement
in effect that Louis Glass, as acting
president of the Pacific States Tele-
phone company, was the only official
who had authority to sign checks or
o. X, disbursements without authori-
zation by the board OF directors. The
attempt was moderately successful.
Frank Drum was questioned at
length about his part in the renting
OF rooms In the Mills building by
Agent Halsey. for the alleged purpose
of paying bride moneys to the super
vlsors. He said that he had intro
duced Halsey TO Agent Cannon of the
building, merely but he confessed
that in n general way he knew from
Halsey that the rooms We're to be
used for the interviewing OF super
vlsors on the rival telephone subject,
and that Halsey desired secrecy In
the matter.
The examination of President Scott
was 10 determine among other things
that after the storm OF the bribery
prosecution broke. Glass shipped Hal
sey out of San Francisco in disguise
to Manila, gave him position there
with 4 telephone company of which
Glass is president and also caused
him to be carried on the payrolls of
the San Francisco company as pen
sioner in the sum of $175 a month
All that Scott would testify TO was
that Halsey did go to Manila and that
he (ScotD put him ON the payrolls as
stated, though Halsey was no longer
an active employe"
AS Saturday Is the Jewish Sabbath
when no court can be held I'm the
Israel synagogue. adjournment was
taken until Monday.