The San Francisco call., 1897-05-11
THINGS He
( WOULD NOT
HAVE TOLD
Some Echoes That Are
Harsh to the Heb
bard Ear.
HE WOULD PADDOCK
BANK RECORDS.
His Attorneys Resort to All
Sorts of Obstruction
Maneuvers.
:. IMPORTANT EVIDENCE KEPT
OUTSIDE.
Editor Marriott Having a Hard Time
Telling Jury Why He Crit.
ieiZei a Politician.
HE WOULD PADDOCK
BANK RECORDS.
IMPORTANT EVIDENCE KEPT
OUTSIDE.
Editor Marriott Having a Hard Tim
Telling Jury Why He Crit.
iciZei a Politician.

Those campaign criticisms on the part
d of various people which irritated the sem
sltive breast of Judge J. e. B. Hebbard to
such an extent as to drive him TO an at
tempt to gag any expression of opinion OF
political candidates appear to be daily be-
coming source of more worry 10 him.
The attempt of Editor Marriott to justify
the opinion he expressed previous to the
election by proving that Hebbard was not
exactly as immaculate a candidate as the
dignity of the bench should exact has de-
veloped into an attempt on the part of
the man who is seeking libel redress to
obstruct and shut out evidence by every
possible resort known to law.
The affairs of the Peoples Home Saw
ings Bank and the management of it by
John F. Sheehan during his term as re-
ceiver are tender spots, which positively
bring pain to Hebbard's attorneys when
Editor Marriott's attorney, Samuel NJ.
Shortridge, would probe into them. The
lawyer IS, of course, endeavoring to con-
vince the jury that Hebbard has few of
the frailties common TO ordinary N ortals,
toput 1t mild, but the other side will not
have it. When he would convince the
jury that Marriott was not far wide of the
mark when he declared that Hebbard was
morally responsible for some of the losses
sustained by the depositors of the Peoples
Home Savings Bank, Judge DaingerfieId is
invoked in plteous accents to call halt
Thus it is that the case drags along
somewhat slowly. All day yesterday At
torney Shortridge sought to tell the Jury
n ore OF the details of the management of
? ha IoHI
Just as hard TO keep these little matters
from being related. Now, of course, it
happens that Sheehan, as receiver of the
bank, got the Office through Hebbard, and
the latter naturally dislikes to hear any
alleged misdoing of his servant related.
X was this connection between the two
which led the bank depoSitors to issue
some campaign literature last October,
which indirectly is responsible for the
case Judge Daingerfield is now listening
10. OF course, mixed up in these matters
there are echoes of the Campaign it.
self For instance, there Is the Incl
dent of the deposltors holding a meeting
IN the Bush-street Theater a few evenings
previous to election and the attempt on
the part OF Hebbard's friends to break it
up. Then there is the effort OF the man,
who was then candidate for the bench,
20 effect entrance into the meeting through
tae medium of a sergeant of police and
subsequently make a speech. Prior to
tnls there are otTsr things distasteful to
nis hearing if the actions of Hebbard's
attorney to prevent their recital goes
for anything. There is his employ oyment
of a private detective to mollify the angry
members OF the bank depositors' COM
mittee, the circumstances surrounding
~ MS discharge OF Sheehan in the face of
the protests of the re preventative of half
the depositors, his famous injunction re-
strainIng the old board of directors from
meeting to resign in conformance with
the request and wishes OF the bank de-
posilors, and there are others.
1t IS upon these affairs that Editor Mar
riott bases his right 10 express his opinion
of Hebbard during the last campaign.
but the candidate is making the way as
rough as possible for the newspaper man
10 accomplish his object
When the Peoples Home Savings Bank
failed among the assets was note of NJ.
J. Sherman for $4,000 secured by other
notes and mortgages on property In
Arizona. John L. Flournoy, as one of the
attorneys Ior the bank, was called to re-
late how the directors and Sheeban had
pursued a sort of wllly-nilly method OF
collecting the money against his protest
and incidentally to answer the inquiry If
Sherman had not got an extension OF time
q upon the payment OF small sum OF
money 10 the receiver and his attorney
when Attorney Kahn, after consultation
with his Client, invoked a campaign OF
objection and legal hair-splitting.
Attorney Shortridge, in defending his
INQUIRIES, replied that he proposed to show
bv' Flournoy one piece OF evidence OF the
conspiracy to gain control OF the Dank Dy
Sheehan. and which could not have been
carried out except by the acquiescence of
Judge Hebbard, who appointed him, and
subsequently, the lawyer argued, the peo-
Die that obtained control OF the bank pro-
ceeded to violate their trust. Judge he ID
bard was aware of the acts that brought
this board into being, and the incident
was one of many which led Editor Mar
riott into criticizing Hebbard qualities
and record as a candidate for Superior
Judge and accuse him of being morally
responsible" for certain losses to the de-
positors. Judge Daingerfield thought, how
ever that there was some doubt OF Heb
bsrd's knowledge of the affair and Flour
nov was not allowed to reply.
When Attorney Shortridge attempted
to elicit from Flournoy what loss the bank
sustained in the Sherman matter, Heb
bard's attorneys again interposed. An
atIem pt TO have Flournoy relate the de-
tails OF the manner by which Sherman
secured an extension Of his Indebtedness
met the sa me fate.
1--WE wish" argued Attorney Shortridge,
10 Justify Mr.. Marriotts expression
of opinion that Hebbard was disgrace
IN the bench. and to that end put facts be-
fore the Jury TO enable them to determine
if Mr.. Marriott was correct in his op1n-
ion. We wish to show that Judge Heb,
bard was the instrument by which ana
without which certain men could not
have accom- plished their purposes, and
that any citizen was consequently lusti1eo
in opposing his candidacy.
d. A new tack was taken with equally
fruitless result. Flournoy was not al
lowed to say that Hebbard's attention
was called to the doings and inanIpuia-
tions of Sheehan and his board OF d.
rectors and the inquiry was dropped.
Ii was thought that the list OF Hep
bards court employees who attempted 20
.Iobhv that Rnsb-street Theater meeting OF
had heAn