“Cleveland, Ohio, August 21, 06. Hon. Frank A. Leach, Superintendent United States Mint, San Francisco. Please pay to General Tirey L. Ford, or order, one hundred thousand dollars, and charge the same to my account. Patrick Calhoun, President United Railroads, San Francisco.”
Calhoun’s final receipt for the $200,000 was as follows:
“Received from Frank A. Leach, Superintendent U. S. Mint, two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) on c/d No. 5251, with Asst. Treasurer U. S., New York.
PATRICK CALHOUN,
“President United Railroads.”
“I want to protect those (the contributors) whom I promised to protect in this matter,” said Spreckels. “Outside of that, the matter is entirely an open matter; I have no concern in it.”—See Spreckels’s testimony, Transcript of evidence in the matter of The People vs. Patrick Calhoun, Page 3385.
The statement in full of the expenditures of the Prosecution, as shown in the transcript of the Calhoun trial, will be found on page xxxiv of the Appendix.