Arizona republican., 1907-10-05

San Francisco. Oct. 4.-Attorney AL bert A. Moore for the defense of the Ford trial resumed his opening argu- ment to the jury at the converting of the court this morning. Reminding the jury that the prosecution had not even attempted to introduce a word of direct testimony connecting Ford with the commission of the crime charged of bribing Supervisor Loner- gan. Moore stigmatized as the fig rnent of a distorted imagination in substance and effect a downright lie" the accusation that Ford had bribed Reuf. that Reuf had bribed Gallagher and that Gallagher had bribed his six teen fellow supervisors.
 He asked if the defendant, a man full of years and honorable, should be deprived of his liberty and charac- ter. in effect his life. by such weak, halting inconclusive and suspicionable testimony as the prosecution had here adduced when Ford had been by no evidence connected with the crime" He repeated that the only accusatory allegations against Ford in all the vast bulk of transcribed testimony were these:
 First. Ford drew lar.;a aino;,nt of money openly and publicly trom the mint.
 Second. Ford saw Reuf m the lat | ters bathroom at his temporary head quarters immediately after the fire.
 Third. Gallagher. a confessed ger jurer. said Reuf told him that Ford had given money to him.
 Heney was absent during the ,ses- sion preparing his argument, with ! District Attorney Langdon. With Ogara at the prosecutions table sat Captain J. D. Fredericks. distric. at tOrney of los Angeles countY. | Moore finished at 90. .i.tcr the usual morning recess of ten nIinut es had been taken. Earl Rogers began the closing argument for the iefense. ! The crowd in attendance was greater than the seating capacity of the sym agogue and many people stood. Ppe CTS opened by palniirz ;tn imDassioned picture of the narrowing conditions existing in San Francisco immediately after the fire. He said the first man to bring a biscuit into the smouiderirg city was Thornwell Mullaly. and Pat rick Calhoun was the first man to say: My fortune goes into San Francisco. How about yours2" Georg Chapman. then the general manager Iof the United Railroads, walked him. 1 self to the grave going up and down ! among the ashes of the ruined me- i tropolis, sheltering the homeless and i furnishing them with food under the roofs of the United Railroads. Rogers
 said that the first spadeful of dirt f in the rehabilitation of San Francisco
 was turned by the United Railroads
 who carried the penniless people free
 of charge in their cars until they were
 stopped by Rudolph Spreckels from
 doing so, and they then opened the now" cried Rogers. lifting his voice
 till it rang under the dome of the
 painted tabernacle. represented by Tirey L. Ford. who labored with il for you. side by side. shoulder to shoulder. through days that tried mems souls, in nights of darkness and terror to be sent to the penitentiary- why? Because Rudolph Spreckles wants it's street car system for him.
 self. Are you going to stand for it?'
 Taking up the ease of Lonergan. Rogers charged that his confession tC the San Francisco Examiner was se-
 cured before Spreckles got to him, a
 confession that cOntradicts his story
 on the stand. was made under a threat
 by the Examiner to accuse him of a hideous crime unless he told story of the board of supervisors skulldug-
 gery.''
 Ogara interrupted Rogers at this point with the declaration that tho
 newspaper incident did not happen
 until after Lonergan had been before
 the grand jury and said that the in-
 situation that Lonergan had revamp-
 ed his testimony at the behest oi Spreckles was deliberately and un-
 qualifiedly false"
 The two lawyers thundered at each Iother for several minutes in kind Ogara finally shouting that if Loner- | gan's confession to the Examiner was