p. 11 | Graft Indictments Dismissed

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jun 11, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 23.

Graft Indictments Dismissed

Graft Indictments Dismissed.—May 25, Judge Lawlor, of the Superior Court of San Francisco, dismissed twenty-seven graft indictments pending for several years against Ex-Mayor E. E. Schmitz. This was compulsory on the part of the judge, because there had been failure to bring Schmitz to trial within sixty days after the defendant had demanded trial. Judge Lawlor lays heavy blame upon those who permitted such a state of things. Among other things he said:

"It will remain a source of shame to San Francisco that where the showing of grave crimes was so formidable, the vindication of the law fell so far short of what was needed in the way of example."