The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-21
AN AMAZING
 CRAFT STORY Seventy-five Indictments
 Against Ruef. ONE HONEST SUPERVISOR Other San Francisco Officials Charged With Being Bribed. Bail Is Fixed At sIo,ooo On Each BiII and Dismay Heigns In Camp of
 California Politi-

being against Abraham Ruef and ten against T. V. Halsey. former general agent of the Pacific States Telephone | Company.
 Halsey is now in Manila installing | a telephone service
 | A statement to a representative or l the Associated Press probably the first | Authoritative announcement that Fran cis J. Heney has made for publication l in regard to the number of indictments returned by the grand jury says in substance:
 "Of the sixty-six indictments chars- ing Abraham Ruef with bribery eigh- | teen are for the alleged bribing of the board of supervisors in connection with the granting of fight permits to the | so-called fight trust. Ruef is charg- | cd with having paid each one of the eighteen supervisors $500 and one in- | dictment was returned for each super | visor alleged to have been bribed.
 "Eighteen indictments against Ruef are for bribing the eighteen supervis- | drs to vote for S5 cents gas instead l of & 75 cent rate, 1t being charged that each one of the supervisors was paid $750 by Ruef. Thirteen indictments | against him are for the alleged bribing l of thirteen supervisors in connection with the granting of a franchise to the Home Telephone Company. The tele-
 phone company bid and paid to the city $25.000 for the franchise.
 Tn connection with the same matter fourteen indictments were returned against T. V. Halsey, formerly general agent for the Pacific States Telephone and Telegraph Company, for the alleged brihAng of four supervisors to vote against the granting of franchise to the rival company"
 According to Heney, Halsey Is charg- ed with having said that thirteen other supervisors received s5.o00 each and James L. Gallagher $10.oo0. Halsey, 1t is said, agveed to pay each supervisor $2.500 additional if the franchise was not granted to the Home Company.
 superviSorn Played Double.
 Of the fourteen supervisors who, it is claimed were bribed hy Halsey, nine Mir. Heney said, turned around and took money from the other company to vote for the franchise. two of whom re- turned part of the money they re- ceived. The Home Telephone Compa- ny. besides the $25.000 for the fran ohise paid S62,0o0 to the supervisors. said Mir. Heney, all of which passed through the hands of Abraham Ruef
 Eight supervisors who, it is claimed were bribed by Halsey, receiving $500 each and are alleged to have taken $3, 800 from Ruef to grant the franchise to the telephone company. Four su- pervisors, who MT. Heney said did not accept bribes from the Pacific States Telephone and Telegraph Company to oppose the granting of the franchise to the rival company are alleged to have taken a bribe of $6,000 each from Ruef, of the money furnished the latter by the Home Company.
 Che Supervisor Req, according to Mir. Heney did not accept any money in nf telephone franchise. Supervisor Gal lagher, Mir. Heney declared, handled the money for the board in connection with Ruef and all are said to have received S1O,0oO
 Seventeen indictments charge Ruef with bribery in connection with the granting of the trolley franchise to the United Railroad, immediately following the disaster last April. Supervisor Req again not receiving any money. Eff teen supervisors said Mir. Heney, &C., cepted from Ruef S4,000 each to vote for the trolley franchise, one, former Supervisor Wilson. now a state Rail road Commissioner. was paid $10,O0O, and Gallagher $15..000.
 Confess to Graft.
 Mir. Heney said that all the super visors with the exception of Duffy, now President of the Board of Public Works, have testified fully before the grand jury and confessed all their participa- tion in the acceptance of bribes Duffy will go before the grand jury Thurs day. Whether he will be permitted to testify will depend upon certain con ditions. that we will put up to him. We want to know certain things that have happened In the Board of Public Works, where we know that Duffy has con- tinued his graft"
 Ex-supervisor Duffy. President of the Board of Public Works, is the one member of the Board last spring who, 1t was said, was not charged with hav- ing accepted bribes. In an interview this morning purporting to have been given him. he expressed his amazement that men could sell their honor and soul for gold.
 The statement that he was one of the alleged grafters surprised many.
 Judge Coffey fixed the bail at $10,- 900 on each indictment. or total of S640, 900 for Ruef and $10O,O0O for Hal Sey,
 The latter Is a brother-in- law of the late John l.. Sabin. formerly Presi- dent of the Pacific States Telephone and Telegraph Company, later at the head of the telephone system of Chi cago, and a brotherin-law of Lucius Glass, President of the Independent Telephone Company. Halsey has been in Manila, installing a telephone sys- tenn He had been under surveillance for several days and papers for his ex- tradition are being taken out, and or- ders for his arrest have been cabled.
 In the overhead trolley deal. Rue: according to Burns, was given $485, 1000 by the United Railroads of which the politician boss Is alleged to have di- vided $91.00O.
 The discrepancy in the number of in- dIctments as given by Heney is ex- plained by the fact. as stated. that i've indictments were withheld.
 Not Beginning of End.
 Assistant Attorney Heney stated that today's indictments were not the be- ginning of the end of Ruef," but mere- ly the beginning of the prosecution of those high up. who are responsible for such conditions in this city"
 District Attorney Langdon said inn mediately after the indictments had been filed:
 "The remarkable organization of this