Show THEY AlL D. D rJ J TH THITh R orT N Witness in Glass Trial at Frisco Saw Supe Supervisors f Visit Telephone O Office ce Q tl Durin During Bribery Times iJ i J SAN FRANCISCO July 17 W. W. W J. J division manager for forSan San lj S r of f the pacific States Tele Tele- Jh no and Telegraph company compan was called b by the prosecution in the Glass a this morning as as th days day's first frial But he was not in the tho court- court room om Judge Lawlor invited Superior Z Judge ludge Louis G. G Harrier of Sol Solano no coun coun- tj to sit on the bench Vj Charles J. J Hill formerly chief clerk n the telephone company's office who L 1 hid had id charge of the preparation of of litera- litera l in of opposition position to rival telephone i proved a a. valuable witness for forthe js ilic the prosecution Heney drawing from fromA ff A him without trouble the statement that 4 various riou ones of the Supervisors visited fI in the latter's offices in the tho old in Bush Buh street and subsequent- subsequent y in tho ne new building in New Mont Mont- l r street i r Among g t those ose seen b by Hall to ent enter r 1 s private office fr frOni m ono one to six Walsh Loner Loner- imes were Supervisors Jan ran Boston Boxton Coleman Sanderson and t Iury lie He overheard poe one of th the conver- conver 11 4 c Rations between any of these and Hal Hal- s cy y i Tr Hall flail know knew of no sal salary ry roll roU 1 by by J Halsey alsey other than f for r I IJ and Miss l Mary Ryan Evan Halsey's Halseys s 's r ormel stenographer whose unwilling it t testimony sUm ny w was s a keen disappointment to tho prosecution yesterday iH Do yow you know frOnt from what officer or 1911 officers cels cel's of the company Halsey received tt fj 4 hui is instructions and to wh whom m he reported re- re ported 1 1 7 r- r fi i a VI i 1 do not V tJ The witness saw Vice President Glass t i. i 3 Ju i Halseys office four or five times in f ff tie period of tho the alleged ell briberies also Treasurer Secretary Eaton hut but not not- Au Au- t r Zimmer or President Scott Sott Heney Hency asked askea- Hall to t ll tIle the jury I.- I. were the duties of J John oh Krause Krause t tie or yesterdays yesterday's ys unwilling witnesses tr bo testified that he was employed un- un Jk ler to 10 work ork a against opposition jf no ne companies compani s. s I f V Delmas objecting to the question l ld I fJ S if If we are to inquire into the duties t every employee of tho tim defendants defendant's this trial will outlast the tho life SL 1 if t all ll of us for I un understand th that t th there thre re k re e of them Jy j iWo We are not interested in in those answered answered Heney Honey but we are arey interested Disinterested y interested in a f fec feW ew of them and when fi Ir r. r Z Zimmer r who knows best about me pertinent matters hec refuses to Y become a witness we have no choice J f- f fr r but to adduce the fact of the defenda defend defend- S- S Sant's a ants ant's nt s 's guilt by a process of elimination y and Land show the jury that no one but Hal- Hal r sey was authorized to pay bri bribe e m moneys eys J and that he could have drawn hi his au- au thorit c from no ono one but the defendant Glass Glass Delmas objected to this statement and assi assigned ned it a's as as misconduct on the part of oft i t Heney I Heney replied with a strai x r ward request of the court to instruct it the e jury that his statements were not nott t i to be by them considered as facts t s Judge Lawlor did so W i In examination Delmas q quoting otin from the transcript transcript-of of Halls Hall's testimony l before the grand jury drew from Hall 1 a a confirmation of the statement that politicians frequented the offices of Haiti Hal Hai ti t. t sey Rey i ifa ii the tho telephone building seeking i it for Jobs j That is all aU said Delmas District Superintendent Phillips was 2 called Mr Phillips testified that he be f f gave ve no to Halsey nor did Halsey report to him He himself had V nothing to do with the opposing telephone telephone telephone tele tele- phone companies nor with disburse disburse- K ment of moneys except b by payroll for abor Sv Between June 12 1905 and March l 15 15 1 06 did you int interview iview or talk with r any of the Supervisors regarding tele- tele v- v phone phoe hone matters asked Heney and to f LV ID Delmas' Delmas mas' mas objection replied This is 2 J purely in it furtherance of of the process of elimination f f.- f. t. t v I did not said Phillips i Z Take the witness said Heney Honey V Stand H Delmas f aside replied ss 1 Thomas E. E Sherwin of Burlin Burlingame ame Y who b became came auditor of the tho Pacific f States company since the promotion to a a directorship of Auditor E. E J J. Zimmer testified that durin during the period of ali alleged al- al i briberies June briberies June of 1905 to March Marchy of of 1906 1906 ho he not y r was employed by the thep p I Pacific States J Heney Smiling assured the court that r c v he was WIlS and over the tho remonstrance of Delmas he be showed that Mr Slier Shere ShereF F 4 win vin was at that time traveling auditor is of the American Telephone and Tele Tele- Fg L graph raph company which owns 51 per pet cent pi of the former corporations corporation's capital stock 1 At At the time of the fire said Sherwin Sherwin Sher Slier win I was e eu engaged aged ged here in auditing 1 1 the Pacific States books for the year 1905 All AU of those books except the general Jeneral ledger and journal and all ll 11 of the books for 1906 except the general enera ledger and the journal were burned up Also he said the voucher checks checka for forthe the last six months of 1905 were similarly similarly simi simi- F destro destroyed d. d These customary Checks have each the tho signatures of the treasurer and ana assistant treasurer or of President John I. I Sabin or Vice dent Louis s Glass Glassy or E. E J. J Zimmer as assistant to the president He found no record of expenditures by checks si signed ned by Glass without corresponding vouchers where checks were payable to Halsey Mahler Did Didy you ou find a a. book marked dent dents dent's Bo Book k I found foun I no such book Was there a book called the presidents presidents president's presidents president's dents dent's re register There was no book There was a sheet theet that goes oes through every day with Jy the vouchers to be approved d by the ther It r president t. Did any such sheets contain records c of expenditures by Mr Halsey ap ap- jk- jk by Mr Glass without explanation b- b c tion of w what at the expenditures were 91 fort or 2 T Delmas Dehmas objected on the ground round that thc tho question called for fra fragmentary evidence evit evi evi- t deuce dence of a a. destroyed document wh when n the tho f l law w requires ires that the w whole ole substance T or nothing be pe stated an and was sustained 1 Heney reframed the the- question and drew v the answer It Js very unlikely that I examined tho the sheets I believe they were in in- t t by my assistants C. C C. C Dickinson Dickin- Dickin k son and C. C W. W Youn Young Who over the most strenuous 11 f tion bon of the defense he stated are now now- i- i in 20 Boston with the American merican Bell Boil Telephone Tele Tele- V phone company or were the last he ho heA A of them 1 y A Adjournment was taken until til 2 2 0 clock 4 f J i if f fex i 7 4 1 fV i. i t w i if- if i 1 i r yi i i f 7 |