Show FRISCO GRAFTERS DRAFTERS MUST STAND TRIAL Supreme Court Decides Grand Gram Jury Bringing Indictments Was Legal Body San an Francisco SelL 23 The Th The Supreme Su Suo preme court decided today that th the grand returned graft Indictment indictments indict Indict- meats ments a against many municipal official and anti officers of or private corporations i ia Isa is isa a legal al body The effect of or this de de- de e- e cislon will bo to force all the bribe bribe- I tal takers ers and givers bribe to trial Their Thel attack on the validity of or the tho Gran grand jury WA the tho last hope they thov had o ci 01 avoiding their cla day In court Amon mong the mo most t prominent men affected by this decision fon of the Supreme cour court arc iro aro Patrick Calhoun president of th the United Railroads Theodore V. V Halsey lIaIse of ot the l Pacific States Telephone Telegraph Tele Telo- graph company A. A K X Detwiler Thornwall William M. M Abbott Abbott Ab Ab- bott W. W I. I Bro Brobeck J. J E. E G Green C. C II IL and others This decision ah also o destroys the main hope that tho the grafters already conI con con- I ted of sec securing n ne y trial trials Among those these men are aro ex ex Eu gene E. E and Abraham Ruet his list political bo boss District Attorney Langdon sa said today Of Or course we e are ale delighted that tha tho ho work ork of or the past year yeal has no not come to naught anti and that the thc Supreme court has found no purely purel technical obstruction In our path which mean menns that hat these are now to be decided on their heir merits tho the last being a question of or law lav- which is raised raided ed b by the thc defense antI and which will vill bo be decided decider In Ia our favor There Is Ig nothing possible to pl nt nt us from front bringing to justice the he bribers Assistant District Attorney honey has las the following to say roy The decision of or the court to tolay upholding the validity or the time grand jur jury ury is right in lino with our contentions ten cOl conten conten- ions and is what the tho prosecution has confidently expected It seems that the he last Important le legal al quibble of ot tho I defense has been swept away I An Any other decision would have been een deplorable an and would have o been heen beena heena a great Injury to the city at nt homo home and abroad Of or course courso wo we could have im- im 1 another jury and anel gone through the tho work worl of or pre presenting tho the c and securing indictments n again aln but it would 1130 o ha c meant delay and amid In defeat lt I man many cases perhaps a of or justice I |