Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-29
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was indicted have not yet been served
upon the defense"
Attorney Heney Aggress
Assistant District Attorney Heney,
who with the district attorney and At
torney Cobb was present for the peo-
pie was willing to consent to the de-
lay, but Judge Lawlor required that
the arraignment of Glass proceed at
once, suggesting that afterwerd the
matter Of postponement could be con-
sidercd.
stand up, Louis Glassw commanded
the clerk, and class rose in the front
pew, which had been reserved for him
and his counsel. Every one of the $50
persons in the dim church-lawyers,
newspapermen, petty jurors in other
cases and mere spectators-craned his
neck for a better view of the accused
man.
Rapidly and in monotonous tones the
clerk began the reading of the first of
the nine indictments. a lengthy and
technically phrased document in which
Louis Glass ls accused by the grand
jury of the city and county of San
Francisco state of California, of the
crime of felony. to wit giving a bribe"
to supervisor Il. H. Nicholas on the
18th day of March 1905. "in that the
fully, feloniously and corruptly give to
the said f. H. Nicholas while the said
Nicholas was "A member of the board
of supervisors, the sum of $4,000. in law
full money of the United States of
America, as a bribe, with the willful
unlawful, felonious and corrupt intent
to corruptly influence" Nicholas to vote
against the awarding of a competitive
telephone franchise to the Home Tele-
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Other indictments
The reading of the Indictment, and of
most of the subsequent ones. charging
Glass with having bribed for the same
purpose and in the same amount and
on the same day Supervisors Andrew
NJ. Wilson, Jennings j. Phillips. Ed
ward l. Walsh, NJ. W. Coffey. Thomas
F.. Lonergan, Charles Boxton. Daniel
G.. Coleman and Max Mamlock, closed
with the recitation of the names of the
following persons as having testified
before the grand jury respecting Glass
actions:
All of the eighteen supervisors ex-
cept George f. Duffey and w. w. San
derson Ghe last named did not testify
until yesterday and the indictments
against Glass were returned March 23);
DR.. Fred Butterfield, representative of
phone company and of the Kellogg
Switchboard company; Hugo X. Asher,
an attorney; Fred w. Eaton, William
]. Phillips, E. j. thinner. Thomas Z.
Sherwin, A. IS. Cooper, 3. c. Carroll
and C. ]. Hall, all employees of the
Pacific States Telephone company;
Frank Drumm. Henry T. Scott, former
ly president of the Union Iron works,
now president of Glass company, and
John Curren.
Glass Meek and Humble
AS the clerk concluded the reading of
each indictment he asked: Louis
Glass-is that your true name" and
the indicted vice president answered in
a low tone, Yes, sir" AS each indict-
ment was finished by the clerk At
torney Coogan rose and asked a con-
tinuance of one week, to give the de-
fendant time in which to plead.
Assistant District Attorney Heney
consented readily to this, stating that
it was necessary for him to devote his
time for the next week to the grand
jury rather than to the prosecution of
Glass, and the court granted the con-
tinuance, at the same time receiving
the return of the bench warrants on
which Glass was arrested, and stating
that the bail bond Of $4,000 would be
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counts.
1t required nearly an hour to read
all of the indictments, and throughout
that time Glass was compelled to keep
his feet at the bar. He stood with his
hands in his pockets, his massive
shoulders thrown far back, his chin
thrust forward.
Frequently he displayed nervousness
by taking a hand from his pocket and
with forefinger tracing imaginary
arabesques on the counsel board fas-
tened to the back of the pew in front
of him,or brushing away fancied specks
of dust, or occasionally biting at his
nails.
The moment the long ordeal was over
he hurried with his attorney from the
building by a rear door, to escape the
newspaper photographers, who, thinks
ing he would come out by the front
doors, were massed on the curb on
Webster street.
He succeeded in evading them all.
Before leaving the temple both Glass
and Coogan repulsed an opportunity
given them to make a statement for
publication.
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