May 21—Overhead trolley franchise granted by the Board of Supervisors.
May 22—$200,000 placed in the Mint to the credit of Patrick Calhoun.
May 25—General Ford drew $50,000 from the Mint which he exchanged for currency of small denominations.
July 31—General Ford drew $50,000 from the Mint, which he exchanged for currency.
August 1—The Supervisors received from Gallagher their first payment for voting to grant the overhead trolley permit. Gallagher testified that he had received the money from Ruef. The payments were in currency, the bills being of small denominations.
August 23—General Ford drew $100,000 from the Mint, which he exchanged for currency, receiving bills of large denominations.
August 24-30—The Supervisors received their final payments from Gallagher for their votes on the trolley permit. These last payments were made in bills of large denominations. Gallagher testified that he had received the money from Ruef.
The withdrawals from the Mint had been made by General Ford, on Mr. Calhoun’s instructions to the Mint officials that the payments should be made to the General.
The testimony of the Mint officials and employes was to the point and at times sensational. Nathan Selig, a clerk at the Mint, for example, assisted Eugene D. Hawkins as assistant cashier,[306] in making up a package of $50,000 in bills which were turned over to Ford. Selig fixed the time of the occurrence at “shortly after the Mayor signed the franchise bill for the overhead wire.”
“What impressed that upon your mind?” was asked him. “Because I made the remark to Mr. Hawkins, as he was going out,” replied Selig, “that that was—I thought it was, the Supervisors’ ‘bit’.”