Show NO lOOPHOlf nf ESCAPE fOR CAlifORNIA GRAFTERS Court Upholds Validity of the Oliver Grand Jury Thus Sealing Fate of Schmitz Ruef and Others San FiunclRco Cal1ho state supreme su-preme court on Monday rendered a do clsion upholding the validity ot tho socalled Olhor grant jury On this loclnion depended the fate of the < < In dlctnicnts found subsequent to Marcn last which include those against Schmltz Hucf mid others The attack was made on the g > and jury 1Iy Williams M 1 Abbott of the lulled Railways Frank G Drum John Martin and Kugeno De Sabla of the San Francisco das company and other defendants to test the validity of the ndictments charging them with bribery brib-ery They contended that In February lust tho names for a new grand Jury were drawn and thai while the Oliver jury lieu not been discharged Its powers pow-ers lapsed with the first step taken to impanel its predecessor Justice McFarlund filed a dissenting opInIon |