The San Francisco call., 1908-05-13
TREADWELL NAMED
IN PERJURY CHARGE
Grand Jury Acts and Bench
Warrant Issued for the
Bankers Arrest
j. DaIzeII Brown Begins Is
Months Term at San
Quentin Today


safe deposit and trust company was in
dicted yesterday on a charge of per-
5ury and the district attorney ordered
that J. Dalzell Brown be taken to San
Quentin prison today 10 assume the
garb Of felon and begin the serving
of his Is months sentence on q charge
of e7nbezzling securities belonging TO
the bank. These developments came
suddenly yesterday.
The perjury charge against Tread
well is said by Assistant District At
tornev William Hof Cook TO be but the
forerunner of an investigat to be un-
dertaken next week by the grand jury
into alleged perjuries on the part OF
Walter j. Bartnett.
When the grand jury meets next
Tuesday sorry picture VIII be pre-
sented by Brown, who will be returned
from the penitentiary to TESTIFY against
his former associate
Yesterday Brown appeared rotund and
alert. Eith his Van Dyke beard neatly
trimmed Next week the beard will
not be there. nor Will the brown hair,
touched here and there with gray,
which Yesterday thatched his head.
This morning the prison barber will
make a bitter change in the appear
ance Of the man who confessed 70 the
wrecking Of the California safe de-
post and trust company
TreadweIl was indicted by the grand
jury on the charge Of swearing false
" in the matter OF the disposal OF the
Cotton securities. which were in the
uncertain custody of the bank.
CAUGHT IN OWN TRAP
Last January 2S Treadwell appeared
before the grand jury at his own re-
quest. and swore that he had never
f1n.afs rcd p q l.
ton securities. That testimony is the
basis Of the indictment.
From Brown. after his confession, As
sistant District Attorney Cook heard
a different story.
Brown was a witness yesterday. He
testified that the Cotton securities
were received from Bartnett. then in
New York. June 5. 1905 Two days
after that according 10 Brown, Tread
we'll negotiated a loan OF $4,000 with
the Italian-American bank. Offering a
parcel OF the Cotton bonds as securt-
ties.
n A. Murphy. president OF the Car
negie brick and pottery company, a
TreadwelI concern in which the Cali
fornia safe deposit was heavily inter
ested, signed the note.
Murphy was a witness before the
grand jury yesterday and confirmed
Browns story. A. c. Sbarboro, cashier
n.
titled to the dealings with Treadwell
and Murphy.
NOTE BEARS TREADwELL'S NAME
Five days later, June y. Treadwen.
with the aid Of B. NJ. Gum. negotiated
a loan with the San Francisco na-
tional bank for $4,000. offering Col
ton securities TO protect the bank, and
signing the note himself. This lat
ter transaction is the only one men
the one in which Treadwelrs signature
20 the note is available. c. K Nc
lntosh, vice president of the San Fran
cisco national banN wes a witness in
that matter.
II is claimed by the district attor-
ney's Office that Treadwell was act
ing on the advice Of Bartnett when he
secured these loans. Bartnett is said
10 have sent the Cotton securities from
New York with the recommendation
and instruction that they be used on
behalf OF the bank
The indictment against Treadwell
was returned before Presiding Judge
Sturtevant about z:3O o'clock He set
the bail Of the accused banker at
$4,000 on the perjury Indictment and
ordered that a bench warrant issue for
his arrest.
At the conclusion OF Browns testi-
mony he was returned to the county
Jail. where he viii pass his last night.
This morning at $50 o'clock he viii
be taken across the bay to San Quen-
tin.
CIPHER TELEGRAM PRODUCED
Assistant District Attorney Cook
yesterday made public some further
translated cipher correspondence among
the bank folk. 1t is a telegram written
by Mrs. Bartnett under the code name
of Atlas TO Bartnett when he was in
New York shortly before the California
safe deposit and trust company went
TO smash.
In the telegram It shows that the
psychic influence which guided the af-
fairs Of the bank TO such evil purpose
claimed an intimate knowledge of the
business methods of l. W. Hellman Sr.
and advised that Bartnett, working un-
der the cover Of David Walker, presi-
dent Of the bank. communicate with
Ieilman- The telegram, as Cook in
terprets it. shows how Bartnett operat-
ed by having others do the active work
Brown translated the telegram for
the district attorneys Office. It reads:
No. l55-western Union Telegraph COMPANY.
SAN FRANCISCO. Sept %, 190T.-W T
Bartneft. Waldorf Astoria hotel, New York city:
The Power wants Walker 70 write TO l. w
Ieliman Sr- Of New Yorks disappointment st
Jack II banking harmony in San Francisco, The
Power says l. W. Hellman Sr has tied ar large
moneys. purposely intending 10 cause great manic
fcrest and crippilng builders. Bartuett should
assist IN this letter. but not he known in it. The
with T. II. Hcliman ST. Payton intends with
drewing dividends for several months Pavton
matters going badly Acid and copper the
ATLAS CMrs. W. J. Bartnett).
ACCUSED OF IaTPERsoNATIoN