The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-05-26
MEN higher UP"
APPEAR IN COURT.
Calhoun, Glass, Schmitz, Null
Tally and Others Placed
Under Heavy Bonds.
RUFF REMAINS IN CUSTODY
PRISONERS PROCLAIM THEIR
INNOCENCE.

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y San Francisco, May 25.-The grand y
y jury this afternoon indicted six mil +
= nonaires on charges of bribery and =
y attempted bribery and returned ad-
y ditional indictments against Ruef =
Z and Scnmitz. Frank G. Drum, Eu-
y gene De Saba, John Marin. Abe =
= were indicted on fourteen counts >
: charging that they Jointly bribed :
; fourteen of the supervisors in the :
y sum of $50 TO fix the gas rate for =
= 1906 at S. cents instead of B cents
y G. H Umbsen. J. E Green and W. =
! ]. Brobeck and Abe Ruef were in :
= that they Jointly attempted TO brihe =
= fourteen of the supervisors in the
= sum of $1,000 each 70 vote trolley =
= franchise TO the Parkside Transit
y company. Judge Corey fixed bail at y
= $1,000 on each OF the 126 counts con- =
= tanned in the twenty-eight indict- =
y ments.
! The grand jury adjourned until :
= June 10, when investigation of al
\ legged bribery by the officials Of the \
y Home Telephone company and by =
3 = other persons will be resumed =
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San Francisco. May 25-Millionaires and
multf-miIlionaires. presidents and vice
presidents and lesser officials of great
corporations thronged Judge Coffeys
3 cQIrL TOoID lUlS IlOIIllAlk with lhCiA
txneys and attendants. whence they had
been summoned to give bail in excess
of half a million dollars to insure their
personal liberty pending their trials on
felony indictments returned against them
yesterday by the Oliver grand jury.
First came Louis Glass, vice president
of the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph
company, to give bonds in the sum OF
$4,000 on the charge of bribing- two Of
the supervisors TO vote with their as
Eociates against the granting of a COM
peting telephone franchise in San Fran
cisco. Mr.. Glass was represented by At
torney COogan. who handed to Judge
Coffey for his approved two bonds for
$4,000 each, given by the Pacific Surety
company of San Francisco.
District Attorney LangdOn not having
arrived in the court room. Judge Coffey
said he would take no action until Mr..
I.angdon appeared and approved the form
of the securities.
Calhoun at the Bar.
President Patrick Calhoun and Assist
ant President Thornwell Mutually of the
United Railroads, ana General CONSUL
TREY L. Ford and Assistant General
Counsel William Abbott. Of that corpo-
ration, each of them indicted on four
teen counts on the charge Of bribing thir-
teen SUPERVISORS and Mayor Schmftz to
grant a trolley franchlse under when
the United Railroad system was electri-
fled and is operated, appeared. in COM
pany with Attorneys A. A. Moore and
Stanley Moore, of the United Railroads.
NORTH Rosenthal of Chicago and Earl
Rogers of Los Angeles. all OF whom viii
take an active part in the defense of
the United Railroad officials henceforth-
VIII II. Croker, president of the Crock
er National bank of this city, and rec
ognized as the foremost capitalist of San
Francisco. and President Henry T. Scott
graph company entered the court room
and remained for some time. Earl Rog-
ers stated that they were there to make
good an offer by them, extended after
the return of the indictments yesterday,
to furnish personal bail. cash or bonds
in the sum of $4,000, for Mr.. Calhoun,
Mr.. Mutually. Mr.. Ford and Mr.. Alb
bolt.
.'ybss yeyy bjD5 offer" said NJ, Bog
ecx p@zS 6Ne22zN1 I1r H1Rsl2S H( 1e2ec2bs,
arrangements having been already made
for surety bonds.
Bonds Amounting to $5eo,ooo.
Harry Maxwell. local representative OF
the Metropolitan Surety company of New
York. appeared, with former Judge
Druiz counsel for New York company
and Mr.. Rogers handed TO Judge Coffey
fffty-six separate bonds for $4,000 each
technical error in quoting the Ian
Hhge of the Indictments appeared IN the
fAt of these bonds, and was pointed out
bv District Attorney Langdon, who had
arrived while they we're being looked over
by the court. Inc coTreetlon OF TINS
lineatiOns which were made in Judge
Coffey's chambers while the court wait
ed The bonds were then re-submitte6
with the district attorneys appreciation
and after Judge COffey had signed hi:
approval fifty-six times, he nodded Il
the millionaire defendants, and said:
''Gentlemen, that is ALL" and the latter
with their counsel, withdrew.
Judge Coffey'S court ToOm-a very small
chauber-was inadequate to the crowd o
defendants, friends, lawyers and news
paper men who thronged it, and they
overfloWed into the hall and the judge
nrivate chamber. Bailff Moore pushe:
his WAY through the crowd and whispered
fered his court room for use. The offe
was declined, Judge Coffey remarking:
This will all be over in few min
utes."
Attorney SchIessinger appeared for The
odore V Halsey of the Pacific State:
fTcIenhone 4, Telegraph company, indicte,
on the same charges brought against Vic
President Glass. MIR. Schlessinger salt
that, Halsey's bond of $4,000 would b
ready at D. IN. District Attorney Lang
don said that that would be satisfac
tory and Judge Coffey gave assuranc
that no attempt would be made to arres
JIalsey n the interim
I1dPe Coffey said that the case
AGAINST Glass would be assigned to Judg
TsEIor's department, where the nine in
sictments previously returned against tn
S.ice nresident of the telephone compan
are soon to be tried. He said that late
~ the dav he would assign Tor trial IN
fiftv-six charges against Calhoun. Mul
laTy Ford and Abbott
ssfs there any one here to represen
MAYOR Schmitz p inquired Judge Coffe5
Nc one answered
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