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Show ALLEGED BRIBER CETS JEW TIL Former Manager of Pacific State: Telephone Company May Escape Prison Sentence. Since Inception of Bribery Investigation Investiga-tion In San Francisco, He Was the Only One of the Corporation Corpora-tion Officials to be Found Guilty. San Francisco. By a decision of tho district court of nppeals, handed down on Wednesuny, the conviction of Louis Glass, former, vice-president and general manager of tho Pacific btatcs Tolephono compnny, found guilty of having offered n brlbo to Supervisor . Thomas F. Lonergan to Influonco his voto In tho matter of granting a franchlso to tho Homo Telephone Tel-ephone company, Is reversed and a new trlnl ordered. Tho vordlct against Glass was brought on August 30, 1907, nnd on September 5, 1907, ho was sentenced by Judge Lawlor to Bcrvo flvo years in tho stato penitentiary. Tho health of tho prisoner was very poor and he wns liberated on ball on that account pending tho result of his appeal. Slnco tho inception of' tho bribery graft investigation in this city, two and a half years ago, four .convictions havo been obtained thoso of Eugene E. Sclimltz, former mayor of thtB city; M. W. Coffey, a former supervisor; super-visor; Abraham Ruof, former political politi-cal boss, and that of Glass, tho only one of the several corporation officials offic-ials Indicted to bo found guilty. With tho reversal of tho Glass conviction there remain but those of Ruof and Coffey to bo acted upon by tho nppol-lato nppol-lato court, tho Schmltz enso having been thrown out by that body many months ngo on tho ground that the Indictment was invalid. Since the conviction of Glass, Lon-orgnn, Lon-orgnn, the man ho wbb charged with having bribed, has died, broken in health and crushed In spirit by tho dlsgrnco attached to his nnmo. |