The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-05-04
Attorney Knight Promises to Do Nothing That
Will Serve to Delay Hearing


bolt and MacSherry transacted their
financial matters and by noon the lat
ter was back in his cell in the county
Jail.
Mrs. MacSherry remained with her
husband in his cell until just a few
minutes before 2:3O o'clock in the after
noon, when he started with Sheriff
Taylor in a carriage for San Quentin.
She left the jail weeping and returned
at once to San Francisco. MacSherry
almost ran the few steps from the jail
door to the carriage when he was taken
out by Sheriff Taylor, holding hand
kerchief over his face, as he has done
ever since his arrest, to avoid being
photogra pied.
INTERESTED IN HIS FATE
The sheriff and his prisoner drove by
the toll road to San Quentin, where
they were met by Warden Hoyle. Mac
Sherry took a lively interest in what
was before him, questioning Sheriff
Taylor at length regarding the prison
rules and regulations, what he would
be given to eat and what work most
likely would be assigned to him. He
shook hands with the sheriff and sew
eral newspapermen on arriving at the
pententiary and was then turned over
to the captain of the yard.
Within an hour of the time he had
stepped within the massive prison gate
MacSherry had been searched, mea-
sured, shaved and bathed, twice photo
graphed, given his suit of stripes and
lost his identity in the prison number
28.279. He was assigned to the main
dollhouse, and before the lookup at 4:30
o'clock had eaten his first prison sup
per, consisting of boiled beans. bread,
black coffee and apple cobbler. This
morning he will be put at work as an
assistant on a loom.
While MacSherry has consistently re-
fused to confess before the grand jury
or to make any declarations which
might be used as evidence, he has made
several statements amounting to vir-
Louis Pistolesi. whose alleged connec-
tion with the fake poolroom men in the
guise of protector" has been under
investigation by the grand jury.
ARRANGED FOR PROTECTION
MacSherry, in one personal converse
ton, made the assertion that arrange
ments had been made with Pistolesi for
protection of the bunkomen for a stipu-
lated sum of 1925 a week Juring their
stay in Sausalito, but that after this
amount had been paid for the first
week PistoleSi demanded more. During
his drive to San Quentin yesterday with
Sheriff Taylor MacSherry denounced
Pistolesi violently, but concluded his
TRADE with his old sullen assertion:
But I'll never squea1."
Pistolesi, who has denounced the
bringing of his name into the poolroom
scandal as the result of a plot to in
jure him politically, attempted a back
fire yesterday through an attack on
Sheriff Taylor. Acting with Supervisor
Michael Burke in the capacity of the.
license committee of the board of SUI
pervisors, Pistolesi filed a charge with
the board that certain money received
by Taylor for liquor licenses had not
been paid over to the county, although
receipted for. The board of super
visors received the report yesterday
and turned it over to District Attorney
Boyd for investigation.
Taylor, who is tax collector as well
as sheriff, explained that the license
payments in question had been erro-
neously entered by clerk in his Office
tax payments and had been put
into the tax fund instead of into the
license fund. He showed that several
errors of this kind had been run down
and corrected and that the error was
simply one of a clerical nature. Boyd
accepted the explanation as satisfac-
tory and there is little possibility of
any further action in the matter
TRANSCRIPT DELIVERED
The transcript of testimony taken
before the grand jury was made public
yesterday through its delivery to F'lan-
nery's attorneys at the time OF his ar
raignment and exposed some interest
ing details Of Joe Abbott's confession.
Asked in the grand jury room to state
the exact nature of his conversation
with Flannery about local operations
after coming to San Francisco follow
ing the election last fall, Abbott said:
"Flannery told me [ could go to
work. I could open a poolroom there
and open a gambling house or open
anything 1 wanted in that way, you
know. He wanted me to wait until he
put his people in office-the Offices un-
der the law, the chief of police, the
chief OF detectives and detectives of
the force and SO on-and he did not