Imperial Valley press., 1929-02-09
KE: YES Isl
PRISONER
4 I JAIL
Quick Conviction f
Former Official on Bri
Charge.
TO KEEP UP FIGH
GetzOff And R0senbel
Also Found Guilty ]
Same jury.
BY United Press Leased Wire

BY United Press Leased Wire
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 81
Kcves, vino during his 25 years
prosecutor for Los Angeles co
ty sent hundreds Of criminals
state S prisons, was confined toI
county jail cell today, convicted
botraving public trust while he S
we'd in The district attorney $
flee.
With Keyes in tank 10-B-2 wi
Ed Rosenberg and Ben Getzd
found guilty with him of enter
into conspiracy to free def
dants in the Julian Petroleum C|
poration collapse case.
The trio. each facing one to
wears in San Quentin, will appd
Monday before Superior Jud
Rutlcr for sentence.
They would have been at libel
until Monday had not Keyes' 4
mcr chief deputy, Buron Fits, nj
district attorney, concurred in 4
prosecution demand that all
placed in jail at once.
In finding Koyes, Rosenberg a
Getzotf guilty, the jury decid
that Keyes accepted bribes fir
Rosenberg and Jacob Berman, p|
through Getzoff, to influence
prosecution of the Julian Petrole|
triad. Bermau turned state s q
dencc and testified that he Cd
$4,000 and that Rosenberg sd
Sl25,QOo to be acquitted IN the
ease.
Keyes Still Fighting
This fight has just started
he smiled, I've lost the Eli
round but there are nine more to
am innocent and win battle 4
charges through to the end. -
Just three hours and thirty Fl
minutes after they retired they
turned to the courtroom; the fl
hour of that time was spent
dinner.
Against each Of the men in tu
first Getzoff then Rosenberg a
then Keyes, the verdict OF we, d
jury, find the defendant guilty
charged in the Indictment, " VI
read.
Special Prosecutor William
Clark demanded that the convict
men be held in custody pending Sd
tence and Fits concurred with 4
demand.
The trio was taken to the couIl
Jail and placed in cell three flod
above and directly over the off
Keyes occupied when he was q
trict attorney.
Get2otf was the only one of d
defendants who permitted his 4
guish at conviction to show.
flinchcd visibly when the verdi
was read and then collapsed 4
route to Jail. He was taken to d
Jail hospital for treatment.
Koyes appeared strained but
maintained his poise even throu|
the routine of tingcrprinting a
booking.
Rosenberg turned complete 4
white and then rcgained composu|
Mrs. Florence johnson, forem|
Of the jmy said only one ballot wi
required to reach verdict. She
jic1tod there had been At Ae discl
sion and that the jurors almost w
OF one mind.
TIVE case was given 20 the jury
6:l1 p. u after Judge Butler rel
lis - minute charge. The verdi
was returned at $50 p. m.
On March, ! Kcves must 20
trial ON further charges of cerru
tlon i'm connection with the distri
attomov's office At that Sme
viii have as co-dcfendant, A.
Lasller, convicted last week
swiudling charges which once we|
dismissed by Keyes.
The trial Of Keyes, Rosenberg al
Gotloff lasted six weeks I'd
brought about the first felony eo
viction ever registered against
Los Angeles county prosecutor.
Fits Flags Keyes
Perhaps the most dramatic scen|
al the triad were the final arg1
wcuts presented by Kcycs I'D
Fits. Whore once close friendsh|
had existed there was only a bittd
ness which was exhibited repeated
as the state revealed the story
the little Spring street tailor sid
where keyes and the Julian defol
dauts met, eonspired and cxehangd
money.
"Ihis man who was YOUR prosce|
tor maintained branch of the al
trict attorney S office on sprifI
Street, Fits shouted. or thel
is one man who il solely responsib|
for this awful Julian TRACED
lJuliau stockholders lost approximl
tely sa5,0Gg.0 600 through over lad
of stock) that man is Ava lloyd
The entire defense submitted h
Keyes and his co-dcfendants "a