The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-05-21
aftermath of FIannery Trial
Promises to Be- Rife in
Sensations
district Attorney Receives ADD
diti0naI Evidence of At
tempted Bribery

which the grand larceny indictment
against Flannery was brought Well
substanuated reports Of jury tamper-
ing which reached District Attorney
Thomas P. Boyd during the last days
of the Flannery trial have caused him
10 redouble his efforts to sift the whole
matter. and the indications yesterday
were that disclosures will be made
within the next few days that will
rival any OF the sensations that oc-
CURED during the progress of the trial
itself
The Marin county grand jury has
been ordered TO meet next Friday, and
sUbpenas for several witnesses whose
names have been drawn.into the Elan
merry jury scandal viii be issued today
or Monday All the witnesses who
were informally examined before the
grand jury Thursday have been held
under the original subpenas. with in
strUctions TO be present next Friday
and BOYD said yesterday that develop
ments of a startling nature might be
expected.
JUROR OFFERED BRIDE
Although neither Boyd nor Judge
Lennon would discuss what had oc-
CURED when three of the F'lannery
jurors We're called into Judge Lemons
chambers Immediately after the jury
was dismissed Thursday afternoon. it
was learned that one of the three had
admitted that he had been approached
prior to the locking up Of the jury on
the second day Of the trial with a
proposition TO vote for acquittaI. He
declared that he had refused to discuss
The matter. but had no explanation
to offer as to why he had not re-
ported the matter without delay to the
court.
District Attorney BOYD and Sheriff
Taylor came to San Francisco yester-
day morning and spent the entire day
running down bits OF testimony and
evidence in this city. In addition to
the reports they had received prior to
the conclusion of the trial, they were
given information Thursday night. fol-
lowing the acquittal Of Flannery, 10
the effect that a nephew OF one of the
jurors had been approached and indi-
rectIy offered $4,000 to influence his
uncle in favor of the defendant
JURORS NEPHEW APPROACHED
According TO the story Of the jurors
relative, whose name both Boyd and
Taylor refused to disclose pending the
grand jury investigation into the case
he was accosted in the street in San
Rafael by a stranger while going to
his home on the evening of the day on
which the Impeachment of the Flan-
merry jury began The stranger opened
a conversation with the young man and
gradually led it up to the subject of
the Flannery trial
How does your uncle feel about this
caseE' he is said TO have asked the
nephew.
The lad answered that he had not
Of q az oil TO rFa
and the stranger then endeavored TO
make him understand in a roundabout
way that il would be well worth the
jurors while to cast his ballot in Flan-
nerv's favor.
He did not tell me in so many
words that there would be 1900 in it
for my uncle" explained the nephew
la relating the incident to the Marin
county officials. but he gave the i'm
preston very plainly"
Efforts have been made to secure
some additional cOrrOborative evidence
concerning the incident Of a week ago
in san Francisco, in which William
Genazzi, q brother Of Juror Henry V.
GenaZzl, and William Elliott, a bar
keeper in Flannery's saloon, were in
volved. According to the statements
made by Miss Carrie GenaZzi a sister
Of the juror. and T. J. Clyne, an insur-
ance man, William Genazzi invited his
Brother and another juror to dinner at
LOmbardTs restaurant in San Francisco
on the first night Of the trial, and while
they were there William Elliott ap-
peared and talked about the trial and
later asked Miss Genazzi to use her in
huence with her brother to have him
go light on Flannery.
WOMAN MAKES STATEMENT
James ". Cochrane the attorney
whose name was dragged into the
1'lannery case almost at the beginning
and who was missing for several days
from his usual haunts, is another wit
ness who viii be brought before the
grand jury. Cochrane's name was
coupled with that of Jerome Bassity
by District Attorney Boyd during his
cross examination Of Flannery while
the latter was on the witness stand
during the trial, but Flannery denied
having been in conference with Coch-
rane and Bassity at any time.
District Attorney Boyd is known to
have received the statement of a
woman whose husbands name has been
closely connected with the Flannery
case concerning a secret conference
she claims to have overheard between
three men, at which the names of GER
tain jurors were openly discussed and
al which it was stated that certain
members Of the jury had been fixed"
and were already safe"
One bit of testimony which was not
brought out during the trial came TO
light yesterday through the statements
OF Roland Hazelton, Joseph Abbott's
brother in law, and Mrs. HazeltOn, both
Of whom were witnesses in the Elan
merry trial. regarding the disappear
ance Of Frank Hazel, the member of
the Sausalito poolroom crowd who
Jumped" his $4,000 bail and became a
fugitive from justice.
Hazel. VISITS FLANNERH
Hazelton declared that on the Tues
day night preceding Joseph Abbotts
second release on bail from the county
JAN in san Rafael and while efforts
were being made by his wife and
Hazelton TO secure bail for him through
Flannery. he accompanied Hazel TO
meet Flannery in San Francisco
Hazelton said that the meeting took
place at the corner Of Market street
and Grant avenue and that while he
waited at the corner Flannery and
Hazel walked up Grant avenue and
were gone nearly half an hour. On
their return. he said, Hazel refused
absolutely TO discuss with him what
had passed between them
The following morning Hazel visited
Abbott in the county jail at San Rafael
and turned over TO him the deeds to