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tolume lxxxiii.— xo. 75.
SAN JOSE COUNCILMAN
IS ACCUSED BY A WOMAN
OF ACCEPTING A BRIBE
MRS. SCULLY HAS
PUT JULIUS KRIEG
IN HOT WATER
Makes Affidavit That She Paid
Him in Hard Cash to Put
Her Husband on the
Police Force.
Mr. Dittus Is Left in Bad Odor, and Back
of It All, Like a Rat Scuttling Into a
Sewer, Is the Sinister Shadow
of the "Boss of the
Push."
FAN JOSE, Feb. 12.— 1n an affidavit
made by Mrs. Mary A. Welsh Scully
to-day Councilman Julius Krieg and
his brother, William Krieg, are charged
■with receiving bribes for a position on
the police force of San Jose.
Besides directly accusing these two
men, Mrs. Scully implicates Counoil
man George B. Dfttttt and James W.
Rea, better known as "Jim" Rea, the
"boss" of Santa Clara County, and also
puts the two remaining members of the
-Council, J. P. Fay and William T. Nolt
ing, in a questionable position. John
H. Scully is the officer whose position
•was bought. His wife made the affi
davit because, after she had allowed
him to squander her fortune of $50,000,
and had risked the loss of what little
property remained to her in order to
raise the money to buy him a "star"
on the local force, he had virtually de
serted her and left her and her four
children on the verge of starvation.
To the latter course. Mrs. Scully says.
her hu££>a.L- m led by association
-vith, and through th* influence of
Councilman Krieg. It is in the hope
that Krieg will be punished for his
crime she has thrown fear and caution
to the winds and made public all the
details of the transaction.
Officer Scully, in the presence of the
Chief of Police and The Call's special
correspondent, this afternoon confessed
that he and his wife had procured his
position by the payment of money to
W. C. Krieg, as the agent or partner
of Councilman Krieg. chief Kidward
•was dumfounded over the disclosure
He immediately suspended Scully, and
will lay the matter before the Council
for investigation at the regular meet
ing of that body on Monday night.
Both the Kriegs and v oundiman Dlt- |
tvs deny that they ever received any
money for securing Scully a position
as a policeman. W. C. Krieg admits he
made a bargain with Mrs. Scully to use
his Influence with his brother to se- |
cure Scully a place on the police force, I
but claims that the twenty dollars
promised him was never paid by Mrs.
Scully. Council Krieg says he secured
JOHN H. SCULLY, the Policeman Whose Place Was
Bought by His Wife.
The San Francisco Call
! Scully's star for him simply out of
I friendship.
Whatever the Council may do in this
matter there is a certainty that It will
be brought to the attention of the
Grand Jury for immediate considera
tion. It is very likely that the New
Charter Club will take the case in hand.
While Mrs. Scully was dictating her
affidavit to-day the tears which she
j vainly endeavored to restrain would
now and again well over, and her
words would come in trembling, half
! sobbing tones, as days of anguish and
i suffering were apparently recalled to
| her mind. She lays all the blame for
j the apparent alienation of her hus
; band's affection to the companionship
jof Councilman Krieg. Her most fer
j vent wish, she says, is that Krieg may
I be put in the State's prison, and that
j men like him may never again be
elected to hold office in the city of San
i Jose.
A sad touch of romance runs through
j this story of bribery, cruelty and cor
ruption. Mrs. Scully was a rich wid
ow, with four children, when she mar
! ried John H. Scully about five years
ago. Her first husband, Welsh, left her
i a fortune of about $50,000. nearly all in
■ real estate, on El Dorado street, just
north nf the business center of San
Jose. She has the reputation of being
| extremely generous, and never In the
days of her prosperity refused a re
! quest from a friend for a loan. Be
■ tween her ill-advised liberality and the
■ drains made on her by her youthful
| and good-looking husband, all her
J property is to-day mortgaged up to the
; full limit, and the rents are pledged to
pay the interest on these mortgages.
For this reason Mrs. Scully has of late
been dependent on what her husband
could earn to provide food and cloth
ing for herself and children. Recently,
she says, she has been getting little or
nothing from Scully, whose salary as a
police officer has been $75 a month.
Some days, she stated, she had no mon
ey with which to provide her family
with food.
She charge? that Krieg has been tak
ing her husband into disreputable
SAX FRAXCISCO, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1898-THIRTY-TWO PAGES.
State of California, County of Santa Clara, ss.
Mary A. Welsh Scully, being first duly sworn, deposes and says
that she is a resident of the city of San Jose, and has livad there con
tinuously for twenty-two years. She also further deposes and says:
I am the wife of Police Officer John Scully. John Scully was appointed
as a policeman on January 1, 1897. I am acquainted with Julius Krieg,
Councilman of the Fourth Ward of the city of San Jose. I have known
him for more than six years. During the latter part of December, 1897,
I sold some of my property to Mayor V. Koch for $6000, and while I
■was sick in bed W. C. Krieg called on me and said: "I hear Koch
gave you some money." I told him: "No, he didn't give me any; he
paid all the debts." He then said: "If you can get $150 to give my
brother Julius, he could get your husband on the police force." I asked
him how he could do it. and he said that Julius Krieg would give each
of his men in the Council a piece of money. He said that Dittus and
James W. Rea would get part of the money and they would put Scul
ly's name on the slate. I told him I could not get the money, and he
asked me to go to Mayor Koch and try to get the money. I sent for
Mayor Koch and asked him for the money, and he wanted to know
what I was going to do with the money. I told the Mayor I wanted to
pay a bill, and he said: "No, you don't; you want to pet Scully on the
force." I denied that I wanted the money for that purpose, and Koch
didn't give it to me.
I borrowed from C. J. Menslng, a dry goods clerk, $150 by paying
$25 for getting the money and $5 a month Interest for a year. I got this
money on the Ist day of December, 1896, and on the 28th of Decem
ber. 1896, in my home, in the presence of my husband. I paid to W. C.
Krieg the $150. W. C. Krieg told me he would give the money to his
brother Julius. On February 12. 1897, I saw Julius Krieg. I thanked
Julius for getting my husband on and told him I was sorry I could not
pay the balance. This balance was a note my husband and I signed
at the time I paid W. C. Krieg $150. The original agreement was that
I Bhould pay $150. When they found out we were anxious, they de
manded $50 more.
Julius Krieg then said: "I know you have done the best you could,
and you can pay the note when you can." He further said: "I did not
get all of this money. I didn't get half." W. C. Krieg then got an
order for $13 a month on the treasurer, to be deducted from Scully's
salary- This was repeated for three months, until the note was paid.
W. C. Krieg told me, when he got the money, not to tell It, as it was
a State's Prison offense; that it would be death to me if I told it.
On last Friday I asked George Dittus, a Councilman, how much
of this money he got. and he replied that he received none; that Krieg
got it all. Afterward I saw Mrs. W. C. Krieg and she said Dittus got
half of the money, but that he is afraid to acknowledge it.
I make this affidavit of my own free will, and for the purpose of
having these men punished for their crimes.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 12th day of February. 189*.
[Seal]
-Notary Public In and for Santa Clark Otvaty.vCal. ■-
places and inducing him to spend his
! money there. It is this action on the
part of Krieg and her husband that
induced her to make this sensational
exposure.
Immediately after Mrs. Scully had
; made her affidavit, a copy of it was
taken to the Chief of Police and read
to him. He sent for Officer Scully.
i Scully at first denied all knowledge of
! money having been paid for his posi
| tion, but after all the details of the
' transaction were related and he had
; been cautioned by Chief Kidward, he
admitted that he had signed a note for
$50. which was in part payment of the
$200 that he and his wife had agreed
ito pay for his position. He denied,
however, that he had seen his wife pay
i over the $150 in cash to W. G. Krieg.
His other answers were given in such
a way as to indicate that he was far
from telling "the truth, the whole truth
and nothing but the truth."
He could not recollect when or where
; the note was signed, whether or not his
wife had signed the note with him, or
what had become of the note. When
pressed on the matter he Baid that he
had destroyed the note, after he had
paid it by giving four orders on the
City Treasurer for $13 35 each to W. C.
NEWS OF THE DAY.
Weather forecast . for * San Fran
cisco: Fair on Sunday; fresh north
to west winds. ,
Maximum temperature for the past
twenty-four hoursi
Ban Francisco ......... .64 decrees
Portland 66 degrees
Los Angeles 74 degreoj
San Diego .....S3 degree*
\if FTRST PAGE.
Bribery Scandal at San Jose.
The Confession of a Murder**
SECOND PAGE. ;
Money for the . State Printer.
Wine Men Want Better Price*. -
A Tacoma Murder Mystery
Murder and Suicide at Seattle.
THIRD PAGE.
Surveys for Nicaragua Canal.
Peace Offer to Cuba.
Great Britain In the Far East.
| FOURTH PAGE.
Towne Speaks for Silver.
Big Ocean Steamer Founders.
Lincoln 1 Day at the East.
Germany's Vigorous Foreign Policy.
FIFTH PAGE.
Zola a Lover of Notoriety.
SIXTH PAGE.
Editorial.
Wipe Out the Scandal.
The Beauty of a. Figure.
The Financial Issue. *
Business In Sacramento.
StIH Unexplained. !
"With Entire Frankness," by -Henry.
* James. v - -■ . *
SEVENTH PAGE.
Suicide of a Burglar.
EIGHTH PAGE.
The French Cable to Hawaii. '■
Examiner Bunkoes a Murderer. '
Annexatlonlsts Abandon Hope.
Cruel Murder ,at Santa Monica.
Threatened the Chief Companion. r
A Young Woman Stage Struck.
- :<:{ .>.. ■ i NINTH PAGE. .
Lincoln Day 'In ; Lob Angeles. '
Thomas Fitch's ; Great Speech.
TENTH PAGE. ','•
■ Racing at Oakland. '
News Along the Water Front.
: ' ELEVENTH PAGE. ■ ■
Church Services To-day. .
i Spring Valley Will Lose. ■- '
;■-'_ r; FOURTEENTH PAGE. .
'. Commercial ' and > Necrological. ' .
General James Resigns.
Krieg. The last of these orders was
paid on January 21, of this year. He
said that he knew his wife had paid
$150 to W. C. Krieg for his position, as
she had told him so, but he did not
know when or where this money was
paid. He also knew that she had bor
rowed it. Scully made the following
further statement:
"I had the first talk with W. C.
Krieg about securing a position on the
police force in November, 1596. just be
fore the election. I afterward ap
proached Councilman Krieg and said I
would like to get a place on the police
force. He said it depended on who got
elected as members of the council. He
would then see how things stood. 1
next paw W. C. Krieg in his shop
after election. He said there was a
pretty hard crowd elected and that it
would take money for a fellow to get
in. He said it would take about $150.
He did not mention any names, but
said that parties up town would have
to have it. I was also present at my
house when W. C. Krieg spoke to my
wife about this matter."
Chief Kidward was rendered almost
speechless by the revelations to which
he was a listener. When the interview
with Scully waa over and the latter had
NEWS OF THE DAY.
FOURTEENTH PAGE.
Lux Had Money to Burn.
Births, Marriages and Deaths.
FIFTEENTH PAGE.
A Famous Telephone Decision.
News From Across the Bay.
SIXTEENTH PAGE.
Music at the Mining Fair.
Burglars in a Bonded Warehouse.
Mass Meeting In the Mission.
Testing Car Fenders.
SEVENTEENTH PAGE.
A San Francisco Girl in Madrid Dur
ing the Demonstrations Against
America.
EIGHTEENTH PAGE.
Searching in Babylonia for Civiliza
tion's Dawn.
What Two Great Nations Think of
Each Other.
NINETEENTH PAGE.
Villainous Treachery of Chinese
Soldiers.
TWENTIETH PAGE.
Latent Method of Teaching the
Toung.
Mysterious Photograph Taken at a
Ministers' Picnic.
TWENTY-FIRST PAGE.
Defending the American Flag on
Clipperton Island.
TWENTY-SECOND PAGE.
Books.
TWENTT-THIRD PAGE.
Hard Luck Stories of Our Best
Known Artiste.
TWENTY-FOURTH PAGE.
Society.
TWENTY-FIFTH PAGE.
Fashions.
TWENTY-SIXTH PAGE.
Boy*' and Girls' Page.
TWENTY-SEVENTH PAGE.
Theaters.
TWENTY-EIGHTH PAGE.
Schools.
Fraternal News.
TWENTY-NINTH PAGE.
Imperial San Bernardino.
THIRTIETH PAGE.
Personal News.
THftRTY-FIRST PAGE.
Monuments Left by Adolph Sutro.
Commercial.
THIRTY-SECOND PAGE.
Los Angeles Will Exhibit.
Mines and Mining.
Whist.
CONFESSES TO
SAVE A FRIEND
FROM THE NOOSE
C. M. RAYMOND, the Murderer Who Has Confessed.
left the Chiefs private office. Chief
Kidward expressed himself as follows:
"I didn't know the first thing about
this. It was a cloudburst to me. The
only thing I knew was about the col
lecting of the money by W. C. Krieg. I
thought he was simply collecting money
for some work done for Scully. I col
lect the money for the whole depart
ment from the City Treasurer, and
these orders are a check against the
men's salary, which I generally pay. I
remember the payment of two of these
orders to W. C. Krieg. The first order
was left with the City Treasurer, and
I think wh<>n I called for the money
they gave me the order as part of
Scully's salary. The second order was
presented to me by W~. C. Krieg. He
brought the order in here and I paid
it to him and kept it out of Scully's
salary."
Chief Kidward th<=>n paid the fol
lowing tribute to Scully as an officer:
"As far as Scully personally in con
cerned he has been a number 1 offi
cer. He has shown himself to be ex
ceedingly bright, and for a new man
has done remarkably good work. I
expected good work from him, but he
far_exceeded my expectations. He
always proved himself faithful, willing
and energetic."
At the close of th« Interview the
Chief gave the order for the immediate
suspension of Officer Scully pending an
investigation before the City Council.
The Chief evidently regretted to take
this course, but said he had to act
promptly in order to protect himself
and the police force as a whole from
unfavorable criticism. He added that
he would lay the matter before the
Council on Monday night.
In the course of his interview Scully
said he could not place his hands oa
any of the orders or the note given to
W. C. Krieg. but the last order paid
by Chief Kidward was secured. It
readfe as follows:
San Jose. March 25. 1597.
j N Ewing. Treasurer City of San
Jose- Please pay to W. C. Krleg. on or
der, thirteen 35-100 dollars ($13.35) and de
duct the same from my salary for the
month of July, 1897, and oblige.
(Signed) JOHN SCULLY.
This bears the "O. K." of Scully and
a penciled memorandum shows it was
paid on January 21. 1898. Across the
face of it, at right angles to the writ-
Ing of the order, is written in large
characters in what is evidently the
handwriting of W. C. Krieg, the word
"Paid." Under this is the signature of
Krieg.
W. C. Krieg denied that he had been
a party in any way to securing a place
for Scully on the police force by the :
payment of money to his brother, the ;
Councilman, or any other Councilman. '
He denied that he had ever been paid i
any money by Mrs. Scully for securing ■
a place for her husband. His explana- ;
tlon of the transaction he had had with
the Scullys is as follows: "The note
for $50 was for work I did in repairing
their pump and for some borrowed
money. They can say what they want, j
but let them prove it."
"Why should Mrs. Scully make these
charges?" he was asked.
"I can't say why. I had talked with i
Scully, and had agreed to help him. ■
She agreed to give me $20 if I would ;
use my influence to get her husband on \
the force, and I spoke to my brother
about him. but she never paid me the •
$20. To show you the feeling that ex
ists between Mrs. Scully and myself. I \
must tell you of some of the business
transactions that took place between '
us. Since the time she promised to pay
me that $20 I did some repairing on her :
steam pump, and bought some old win- ;
dows that she had. I wanted them to !
build a green house. When my wife
asked her what the windows were
worth, Mrs. Scully said let it go for
the $2". as she wanted to pay her debts. |
Now she wants pay for the glass, and I j
will pay her whatever the glass is i
worth, if she will pay for the repair |
work on the pump. I can show that j
the note was given for work done, but
it will mean considerable work over my
books.
"Mrs. Scully was the first to speak \
about getting her husband a position
on the police force. This was a few
months earlier than December, 1396.
She said she thought Johnnie would
make a good police officer. After that ;
%ye had frequent conversations about !
it."
Councilmen Krieg and Dittus, who
are boon companions and can always
"be found together, when they are not
attending to public or private business,
were seen together at one of their fa
vorite haunts on Market street. They
made a joint denial of the charges
gworn to by Mrs. Scully. Then Krieg
Continued on Second Paga.
THE ACCUSED COUNCILMEN.
PRICE FIVE CEXTS.
SAYS HURT
WINTERS IS
INNOCENT
C. M. Raymond Tells
. of the Killing at
Baden.
Admits His Guilt and lith
plicates Ex-Convict
Willetts.
Himself the Man Who Fired
the Shot That Slew-
Andrews.
WANTS JUSTICE DONE.
The One Whom Ho Exonerate*
Already Sentenced to Death,
on the Gallows.
Special Dispatch to The Call.
SACRAMENTO, Feb. 12.— C. M. Ray
mond, alias Moore, who is now in Fol
som prison, and who is to be hanged
on the Bth day of April for the murder
of Fred Andrews in a hotel at Baden,
San Mateo County, has made a full and
complete confession. He exonerates
Winters and implicates a man by the
name of Willets. To-night's Bee has
the following statement of the con
fession:
"On last Monday Moore sent for
Warden Aull. saying he was anxious to
see him upon important business. It
was a wet, dismal day, and this, per
haps, may have led him to think of
his crime. When Warden Aull arrived
at the cell Moore told the Warden that
he wanted to confess to the murder,
and asked the Warden to send for
Brother Chisholm, the prison chaplain.
Warden Aull told him that he would
send for Brother Chisholm, but that the
chaplain generally came over on Sat
urday.
Moore said that he could not wait
that long. Warden Aull then said h«
would see how soon he could get
Brother Chisholm and telephoned to
the chaplain, who answered he would
try to get over from Auburn the next
day. The warden was very busy, hav
ing other matters to attend to, and told
the chaplain he could not see him on
Tuesday.
Warden Aull then went to Moore
that same evening and told him that
Chisholm would not be over until Sat
urday. Moore still insisted that he
could not wait that long.
The condemned man said that he and
Winters went to Baden one week prior
to the shooting and examined the
building. They then went back to San
Francisco, where Moore procured a re
volver from Winters. Later, Moore
said, he met Willets, who was an ex
convict, and together they returned to
Baden. While there, Moore said, he
met Winters in Holy Cross Cemetery
and got another pistol from him. W*il
lets and Moore that night entered Fer
riter's Hotel for the purpose of com
mitting the burglary.
"Some one who was at the head of
the stairs," said Moore, "saw us and
threw me down stairs. The noise at
tracted several other roomers, wtio ap
peared on the scene. At the foot of
the stairs I looked up and saw several
people struggling with Willets, when I
shot four times."
Warden Aull asked Moore what Win-,
ters was doing In Baden at that time.