The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-06-20
CASE IN THE
HANDS OF THE JURY
Continued from Page 1.

: week eighteen supervisors had con-
Z fessed their acceptance OF money from
( SIX different sources. It was Subse-
quently announced that the supervis-
ors had been promised immunity for
their testimony against the men
charged with offering brides.
The oliver grand Jury, empaneled un-
der the direction of Mr. Heney i'm Octo-
{ Der 1907. heard the confessions of the
& supervisors ON March ~, 1907, and dur
ing period of forty-eight hours re-
& turned over 300 Indictments against va
Iious persons charged with completely
Sin the briberies.
Mr.. Calhoun, together with Abraham
Ruef and three subordinate officials of
the United Railroads, was indicted on
fourteen counts, three of which were
returned by a later grand jury. II was
8 harged that the corporation had Sc
( cured from the supervisors in May q,
1906, a permit authorizing the substi-
) tuition of the overhead trolley system
for the cable lines partially destroyed
: by the earthquake and fire of April is,
1906
Calhoun and the o-her defendants
We're accused of having paid Ruef,
Schmitz and the supervisors $500, 900 for
their services in securing the permit
: for the company, and each indictment
: one of the supervisors,
TREY l. Ford, general counsel for the
( United Railroads, was one of the Off
cials implicated by the indictments, and
during a period of eight weeks was tried
, three times. In the first instance a dis
agreement resulted, and n two subse-
quent trials Ford was acquitted.
Trial of Ruef.
Ruefs trial upon the so-caIled trolley
+ indictments was commenced Aug. 27,
1908. There was an interruption of
? several days subsequent to Nov. Is,
when Francis J. Heney was shot down
E in the court room by an ex-cOnvict who
3 subsequently committed suicide in the
county Jail and three volunteer prose-
cutors took up the case, which ended
Dec 10, 1905 when a jury returned a
verdict of guilty. On Dec. % Ruef was
sentenced to fourteen years in San
Quentin penitentiary, and since then
has been confined in the county Jail
I awaiting action on an appeal to high
CT court.
The prosecution, during the several
: trolley trials, has attempted to prove
that Calhoun, on the day following the
: final passage of the permit sent from
New York TO the mint i'm this city $780,
000 which he previously authorized the
mint blAANlc-Ae " pay W AAEg L. i VI u
The money. as is admitted, was With
drawn I'm three instruments by Ford,
who presented orders signed by Cal
houn. IL was alleged by the prosecution
that within a few days after each of
Ford's visits 70 the mint he received
a call from Ruef Following this the
DRY. James /. Gallagher, chairman of
the supervisors, testified that Ruef had
paid him over $4,000 in July, and an
Gallagher declared that he had re-
tanned $4,000 for himself had paid An
drew NJ Wilson. one Of his lieutenants,
and had given $4,000 to each Of the other
supervisors.
It was affirmed by the prosecution
that RUef and Schmitz divided the bal
anCe of the fund amounting to about
s1l5,0OG.
The Calhoun Indictment.
The specific indictment upon which
Calhoun was tried was the offer of
bride Of $4,000 To Supervisor Fred p.
Nicholas, TO influence his action upon
the trolley permit Nicholas, called as
the first Witness admitted acceptance
Of the money for that purpose.
Since the trial commenced a great
number of new issues. more or less i'm
portant have heen presented for the
jury = tOlAStQtIdttoil. III MdEGitf NIen
the trial was nearly two months old.
warrants were issued for the arrest Of
several men charged with stealing doc
uments from the Office of William J.
Burns. special agent for the district at
torneys Office. The list of defendants.
headed by NJ. NJ. Abbott and Luther G.
Brown, included Rex Hamlin, secretary
TO Burns, and three other OF Burns as
sistants, who confessed that they had
given private reports. letters and tele