Show NEW THIL 11 former Mat manager iager of pacific states telephone company may escape prison sentence I 1 bance inception of bribery Invest investing ig a tion in san francisco he was the only one of the corporation officials to be found guilty san Francl francisco by a decision 0 of f the district court of appeals handed down on wednesday Wednes the conviction of louis glass former vice president and general manager of the pacific beates telephone company found guilty of having offered a bribe to supervisor thomas P F lonergan Lon erean to influence ills hla vote in the matter of granting a franchise to the home telephone company Is reversed and a new trial ordered the verdict against glass wag wae brought on august 30 1907 and on september 5 1907 ho he was sentenced by J judge lawlor to serve fire fl c years yeara in the the health 0 of f the prisoner was very poor and it he 0 was liberated on ball on that account pending the result of his appeal since the inception of the bribery graft investigation in this city two and a halt half years ago four convictions have been obtained choso of eugeno eugene I 1 E former mayor of this city AT IV coffey a former sapet visor abraham ruef former sal al boss and that of glass class the only one of the several corporation ome fals indicted to bo be found guilty with the reversal of the glass conviction there remain but those of ruet ruef and coffey to be acted upon by tile the appellate court the case having been thrown out by that body many months ago on the ground that the indictment was wag invalid since the convict conviction lon of glass class lon loii ergan the man inan lie he was charged with having bribed has died broken in health and crushed in spirit by the disgrace attached to ills his name |