Show ANOTHER BRIBERY RV TRIAL IN fRISCO Halsey Is Charged With Buying Vote of Supervisors ors ors to Keep Out the Independent Independent Inde hide pendent Company SAN FRANCISCO Aug 1 The I.-The The tri trial l lof of Theodore V. V Halsey of the Pacific Stat States s Telephone company on the first of the thirteen indictments charging him lira with the bribery of supervisors of-supervisors to maintain his corporations corporation's monopoly in San Francisco was begun this morning in Judge Dunnes Dunne's s 's court The indictment at bar charges Halsey with the crime of purchasing for in the month of April 1906 the vote of Supervisor ThomasF Thomas Lonergan against the Home Telephone company's application for a competitive franchise The first three to be examined exam exam- ined ned Emile B. B Feigenbaum J G. G James and Frank Keyes were excused by consent cou con s 's sent nt for confessed bias District Attorney William WilIiam H II Langdon Langdon Langdon Lang Lang- don conducted the examinations for the tho prosecution He hie is is' supported by Special Counsel Hiram Johnson and Assistant District Attorney William WilIiam Hoff Cook Attorney Bert examined for forthe the defense With him at the coun counsel count coun sel eel table in Halse Halseys Halsey's s 's behalf are Delphin Dolphin M. M Delmas and Henry Henry II JI If Judge Lawlor overrules the objection of the defense of th the commencement of Louis Glass' Glass new trial next Monday l and requires it to go on at that time Delmas Delmas Del Del- mas alas will probably withdraw temporarily tempo from front the Halsey Hlsey case in hi order to take part in the defense of Glass The first juror to pass lass the qualification tion test and aria retain his seat in the in-the the box subject to peremptory challenge this morning was Charles CharlesQ W. W Pope a real estate estate estate es es- es- es tate dealer In Iii view of an editorial attack attack at at- tack by y a San Francisco morning p paper per peron on the five fi members of the Glass jury who voted for acquittal Mr Mr- Pope was especially asked by t y Halseys Halsey's counsel whether fear of newspaper attack attach wot would d make hint him hesitate to acquit if the evidence evidence evi evi- dence warranted His emphatic declaration declaration declaration decla decla- ration that it would not was seemingly satisfactory to the defense Austin J J. J Green Thom Thomas s W. W Ford and George Williams s successively challenged for cause were excused Frank Gehrett a merchant confessed to bias and was excused Edwin Bonnell cashier and secretary of the Savings and Loan association kept his his scat seat tentatively as s jur juror r No 2 He satisfied the defense in saying that he be presumed by the returning of the indictment indictment indictment in in- that the tho crime of bribery had been committed but he be would not convict convict convict con con- coni i vict Halsey on tho mere nere fact of his in in- He would require the prosecution prosecution prose prose- prosecution cution to prove the defendants defendant's guilt Frank Lutty clerk in the course of his examination averred that there is not money enough in San Francisco to influence his vote one way or the other but on account of his employers employer's interests interests interests inter inter- ests he would rather not serve He was accepted as juror No 3 Timothy O a Brien OBrien warehouse man and Sigmund merchant declared declared de de- each that his opinion was so fixed that no amount of evidence could change it Both were excused by con con con- sent This exhausted the panel and nine more called to fill the box after the tho court had bad deferred unwillingly unwilling unwilling- ly to the agreement of opposing counsel counsel counsel coun coun- sel that no peremptory challenges should be interposed until the box should be he filled fined by twelve men qualified as to cause |