The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-07-09
FIVE YEARS FOR
MAYOR SCHMITz
Sensational Scene at Senten-
cling of San FranciSCo'S
Chief Executive.
TALKS BACK TO COURT
SECURING OF JURY IN ANOTHER
CASE is ON.

san Francisco, July S.-The sentenc-
ing of Mayor Eugene E. schmitz 10 five
years in San Quentin penitentiary for
eXtortion, and the commencement and
partial completion of the selection of a
jury TO try Vice President Louis Glass
of the Pacific States Telegraph comma
ny on the first of ten charges of bribine.
supervisors We're the features of today
IN the brtbery-graft proceedings.
The sentencing of Schmitz was one Of
the most dramatic scenes ever wit
messed in western court The effect
lNeneSs of the fearful denunciation Of
me convicted mayor as delivered BY
superior Judge Frank H Dunno prior
to the passing of judgment was height
ened by the demeauOr Of the prisoner.
VINO time and again interrupted the
court to demand that these bun,fIiat
ing remarks" be desisted from and that
the court do its duty by pronOunciDgr
sentence at once. At the conclusion. as
the words be confined i'm the state pen
ltenti5ry a San Quentin for a term Of
i've years fell from Judge DUNES
lips. the great crowd that packed the
court room burst into a cheer.
Attorney in Contempt.
Hats were thrown into the air. arms
were waved and there was such an m
restrained clatter Of applause that the
bailiffs pounding for order could not be
heard.
Once while the sentence impended the
judge threatened to send Attorney Met
son OF the mayors counsel to jail for
contempt because he decried the courts
comments as "cruel and unusual pun
ishment," and Nelson was told by
Dunno that he ought to be begging a
day i'll court to defend himself against
the charge of having tempered with A
witness in the case" Again. resultant
of the crowds cheering Of the sentence.
Judge Dunno observed that IF We had
a sheriff worthy the name the disturb
ance would have been squelChed."
Sheriff O'Neil protested that nobody
could stop it"
The defense filed a bill of exceptions
after motion for d new trial and mo-
ton for an arrest Of judgment had been
denied, and Judge Dunno granted a GER
ti1cate of probable cause, upon which
Schmitz viii go to the district court Of
appeals for new trial
In Judge LAWYERS court six of the
twelve jurors to try Vice President
Glass were finally selected and sworn.
after the prosecution had used two
peremptOry challenges and the defense
four. To the former three arbitrary
challenges remain, and to the latter
six. The days progress was in sharp
contradiction to the slow and Weari-
some course dragged out in the jury
getting preliminaries Of the Ruef and
Schmitz cases.
Jurors Are Selected.
District Attorney Langdon, Assistant
Attorneys Heney and Ogara and
Charles w Cobb. Mr. Heney's law
partner. were present for the prosecu-
ton Attorneys ID. VI. Delmas. T G
CoOgan and Henry 9. McPike, the lat
ter of whom was associated with Del
mas in the Thaw trial. represented the
defense. There was a complete absence
Of pickering that distinguished the
Ruef and Schmitz trials and frequently
led to unpleasant encounters between
bench and bar as We'll as between Op-
posing counsel.
In all eighteen venirement we're ex-
amined during the day Twelve Of
these qualified as to cause:
ID James H. Robertson. insurance
broker; % William Jones. retired Ce-
ment man; 80 Thomas Kirby. merch-
ant. a. Patrick Lyons, retired; 90
Joseph H. Robinson, grocer; 90 Michael
A Samuels, photographer; "a John
Tie1eman, grocer: 80 Henry Sieroty,
merchant: go George A. KOhn, merch-
ant; 0O) Sigmund Levy. wholesale sta
tionar; I'D John @. North, manufac-
turer of machinery; Q2) John W.
Shields. retired sergeant Of police
Nos. and 10 were excused peremp-
torily by the prosecution. Nos 3, /,
and stood on arbitrary challenges by
the defense.
It is expected that the jury may be
by tomorrow night.