The San Francisco call., 1908-03-07
BETRAYS TFY|S
SCHEME IN COURT
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ters of that kind
We'll. can't you say whether you ex
pected to clean up SIS or $4,000. 000?"
I'm guessing at nothing was the
only reply Sullivan could get. Per-
sistent questioning on the part of Sui
livan resulted in the passing of in
sinuating remarks between the assist
ant district attorney, the attorneys for
the defense and Beal until the court
put stop to the proceedings.
SEEK FOR RUFF BRIBE
Previous to the testimony adduced
relative to the ownership of the water
rights along the south fork of the
American river, the defense attempted
to discover through an inspection ,of
the company's books to whom $1,000
had been paid on September %, 1906,
the expenditure OF which was noted on
the book under examination. The OBJ
ject was. to establish whether that sum
had been paid to Abe Ruef, to be used
for the payment of advertising. the re-
ports of the meeting of the board Of
supervisors on September "a, 1906, in an
evening newspaper.
None of the questions established
anything material for the defense, Bea1
maintaining that it was impossible for
him TO say to what use the $1,000 had
been put, unless it was money that he
had drawn from the company which
he said he was in the habit of doing, as
he always had his salary credited to
him and loaned to and borrowed from
the company money as occasions de-
manded 1T.
Asked whether he carried accounts of
advertising. Beal replied in the mega
tive, but added that from time to time
he had spent a total of about $4,000
for the benefit of the company in pub
licity work relative to water projects
which Beal said he desired to put be-
fore the public.
BEAL A PHILANTHROPIST
You did this for the benefit of the
company, and paid those sums out of
your own pocket in the spiritsof true
citizen or philanthropist, for
example?" asked Sullivan smiling at
the jury.
Yes, SIR responded Beal
According to you. your own salary
was and is now $500 a month. or in
other words. you have paid out for the
benefit of the company nearly half of
your total salary during that time
without hope of ever being remuner-
ated," said Sullivan.
ocoi Sa1u tiat Sucn was the case.
There was general laugh in the
courtroom
Sullivan thereupops insisted that Beal
bring his check stubs into court and
this was ordered in the hope of estab-
fishing to. whom payments aggregatinr
$4,000 were made for publicity
TEvIs AT RUEF's HOUSE
Shortly before the noon recess ves
terday Daniel G. Coleman, one of the
Doodle supervisors, was called to the
witness stand. Asked as to meetings
he had with Ruef. Coleman said that
on one occasion, a few days after the
fire. he called at the residence of Ruef
and was surprised to find Tevis, presi-
dent of the Bay Cities water company.
visitor there. Coleman said the
conversation between Ruef and Tevis
lasted for considerable time
John E. Bennett, one of the attorneys
of the Bay Cities water company. tes-
titled that on one occasion he had
hired Hamilton hall and parts of a
brass band" for the purpose of deliver
ing speech denouncing the methods
of the press In attacking the boodline
board of supervisors. Extracts from
copies of this speech were read to the
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America against the. yellow press and
principally against the Hearst papers
there are several of them. They have
the wit Of the Evil One and will stop
at nothing to beguile the public into
buying them. Take, for illustration.
the Examiner in San Francisco: When
the slanders Of that paper against the
Franciscans were objected to it has
tened to pai1iate the offense by print
ing lot of "gush" about the good
works being performed at st. Boniface
monastery, sop to the Catholics.
When 1t found that even more salve
was needed the antisaIoon cause be-
came suddenly It's dearest care--and
nothing was left undone to catch the
favorable eye of Catholics-its columns
filed with the pictures of our priests
whose names and photographs were
put to every possible use to gain the
attention of our people.
LAsinoA is not the only dangerous
paper circulating In San Francisco.
Again, in all seriousness, we say, let
the Catholic people take warming
llagairst the Examiner, nor be fooled
by its cunning. Catholic men. and
women should fear to bring such a
journal into their homes They are
taking great risk in doing so. We
have said this time and again. The
warning cannot be too often repeated
and emphasized