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Show SAN FRANCISCO GRAFT CASES OFF CALENDARS SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. I.-AP that was loft on the court calendars of the so-eallcd so-eallcd craft prosecution in San FVancii.eo which resulted In the overthrow of th SehmUz administration in l.r'07. passed into history today when Superior Judge William P." Lawlor dismissed 'be last of the Indictments against tuls Glass, who. as vlcf-presldcnl of the Pacific Telephone & Telegiaph company, was aeeu.ced of having offered a bribe to a .-supervisor for his vote on a franchise measure. Glass had taken advantage of the statutory provision granting nccusod men the right of trial within sixty da. claiming claim-ing that the district attorney had neglected neg-lected to biins hlni to trlat within that period after be had petitioned for a hearing hear-ing before a jury. The motion for dismissal dis-missal of the Indictments mis allowed on this ground. Th rases acalnst Glass had been called at Intervals in Judge l.au'or's court for the apt fyf years. |