Show LAST INDICTMENTS t DISMISSED r It Forn erSan Former San Francisco Francisc Mayor May May- I i or Now Free From Graft Graft- Prosecution I. I i SAN May y 35 Judge William P. P Lawlor dismissed the thelast last 16 twenty seven wen ow oven indictments 8 against aJr Mayor Former r Eocene ene E E. in int inthe inthe t the e trolley and aud g toJi today Y is now entirely freed from the graft pros prosecution ution In i dismissing ing tho the indictments Jud Judge Lawlor read a along lol long og lo l history of f the e ease a. case e in fu which he deplored red th the failure to t convict The The action was wa tak taken n on n. n the that had availed himself of hi his statutory right of demanding a atrial atrial a trial within sixty day Indictments were Indictments were returned five years rearS ago today May Mar 25 1907 1901 They re related 18 e- e latea to the alleged bribing of supervisors super visors j connection with the city gas rates atle and ana were known as th the thai gr graft ft eases cues as all distinguished from the tr l- l ley erI er cases I in which ic th the indi indictments were returned May 24 Jud Judge e I Lawlor in his written comment corn com ment meat on the c case e said that when he had bad brou brought ht S to trial the last time ho be bad had done d ne so o with little hope hOje that R a a conviction would bev be secured I Since the oJ od- od re regime gime e he said referring I Ito to the administration of or District Attorney Attorney At At- Attorney torney William Lan Langdon don the proe prosecution e cu ti tion of the graft cases had J been taken en fr from m tile the hands h of the du district attorney mainly through h the tho T resources and anel activities ac so- of tho the defendants ta and the tho men man who supported them 1 HIt It WIn will always s be bes a source of or shame to the city paid T Judge Lawlor H that that t the tho o oot ot prosecution elee Jell so BO far short hort of the requirements of the Jaw aw 1 As a a charge chare for forthe the dismissal dismissal dis dis- missal miseal of t tho indictments Judge Tude Lawlor Law Law- lor b- referred to o the utter t er f hopelessness hopeless tees ness of attempting to s secure cure a tion th the Ru f h having been dis disposed posed of and to l convict being ing lacking r Jn Judge Lawlor J the slate of ot the Sin sn Francisco graft ann ii indictments with the he exception tm pending against st former Pre President ident Louis A. A GJ Glass ss of t the be Pacific States Tele Telephone u and l rl pt company u upon h mU t rule tWo next Friday |