The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-07-13
MAYOR BOXTOA
CAUGHT IN TRAP
First of San Francisco City Of
fiCiaIS EnSnared by Heney
and Burns.
STORY TOLD TO THE JURY
FACTS BROUGHT OUT IN GLASS
TRIAL.

San Francisco, Cal, July 12.-MayoI
Charles Boxton, major of volunteers in
the Spanish war, head of the department
of dentistry of the College of Physicians
and Surgeons, twice elected supervisor OF
the city and county of San Francisco
the first of the city officials to fall into
the net spread by the bribery-graft prose
cution. today on the witness stand, IN
the Glass trial, told IN detail the story OF
his entrapment last fall at the home OF
one Roy. a restauranteur, who, cooper
ating with the prosecution, bought for
500 his supervisorial vote against an or
dinance prohibiting child patronage OF
skating rinks-only to turn him over to
the law.
Had Him "Dead to Rights"
He told how spreckels and Heney and
IAangdon and Burns 'and a dozen others
outside the doors" walked in on him and
confronted him with statements of proof
and threats Of punishment; how they Of
fered to let him go free II he would turn
up his confederates and accomplices in
side and outside OF the board of super
visors; how he agreed, and written
signed and placed in Spreckers pocket;
how, at midnight, they sent him home
under escort in an automobile and there
after for a week watched and guarded
him like a prisoner.
Both the direct and cross-examination
Of Mayor Boxton was concluded within
the day. Other witnesses called were
President Homer s. King of the Bank of
California, director Of the Pacific States
Telephone & Telegraph company, and
Henry T. Scott and Frank G. Drum, re-
spectively president and director Of that
corporation. The last named is under in
dictment on charges of bribing fourteen
supervisors to fix the legal gas rate at
70 instead of IS cents.
DeImas VIII Claim Perjury.
~
Boxton Attorney Delmas injected the
Identification by the witness of certain
court papers connected with the attempt
last fail to remove District Attorney
Jangdon from office and appoint in his
stead Abraham Ruef, the presumed object
being TO kill the graft investigation in the
bud. The eighteen supervisors, including
Boxton swore that they were each and
ali guiitless of the crimes of bribe taking
or of any crimes; from this Delmas can
argue to the jury that BoXton is per
jurer, and therefore his testimony against
Glass in having accepted bride from
Halsey of the telephone company, is not
worthy of belief
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 Telephone company,
was the only official who had authority
to sign checks or o. K. disbursements
without authorization by the board of di-
rectors. The attempt was moderately sue
cessful.
"oil Room" In Mills Building.
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 supervisors. He said that
he had introduced Halsey to Agent Can
non of the building merely, but he con-
fessed that in a general way he knew
from Halsey that the rooms were to be
used for the interviewing of supervisors
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 bribery prosecution
broke, Glass shipped Halsey out of San
Francisco in disguise to Manila, gave him
a position there with a telephone com
pany of which Glass is president, and also
caused him to be carried on the pay
rolls of the San Francisco company as
pensioner in the sum of S175 a month.
All that Scott would testify to was that
Halsey did go to Manila, and that he
(ScOtO put him on the payrOlls as stated.
though Halsey was no longer an active
employee"
AS Saturday is the lavish Sabbath
when no court can be held in the Israel
synagogue, adjournment was taken until
Monday.