The San Francisco call., 1907-06-14
Betrayer of City IS Stunned
When Guilt Is Proclaimed

battalion who have assailed him and
the motives actuating Rudolph Spreck-
els and District Attorney Langdon.
They heard him hotly denounce VIII
liam Metson as an attorney who had
employed Henry Lyncn, employe of the
Southern Pacific railway company, to
tamper with a witness for the prose-
cution. They heard him fling denial
back at Metson ana taunt him with
failure to deny II upon the witness
stand. They heard him promise Met
son any satisfaction he might feel
called upon to demand. And then they
heard the raging, belligerent Heney
that they had come 10 see subside-be-
come an amazingly adroit advocate.
Having paid his personal respects to
his enemies and detractors. Heney dis
missed them. He turned to the conyie-
ton of Schmitz on the evidence he had
presented to the jury. With an amaz-
ing and. viewed in the light of the
usual efforts before Juries, most un-
lawyer like fidelity he confined him.
self to the case and the damning proofs
he had brought into court. He was
eloquent, fiery, but he was more. He
was attending to the business in hand.
That business was the arraying in log
ical and convincing sequence the facts
in his case. the shattering of the thin
walls built by the defense.
He was the playwright rather than
the accepted type Of lawyer. He uri-
folded, situation by situation, the filthy
plot conceived and consummated by
Schmitz and Ruef. He worked UP SEEM
ingly irrelevant situations to turn them
with startlingly dramatic effect to the
purposes OF his argument
CHAIN WITH NO WEAK LINK
For more than two hours he held
the jury and the crowd that hung on
his every phrase in wrapt attention.
When he had done the evidence in
the case and the evidence contained in
the record had been arranged in per-
feet sequence chain of guilt with
out a flaw.
One of the cleverest exhibitions of
Heney's skill was his handling of
Juror OMara. The day OMara was
examined as to his fitness as a juror
he left the courtroom during the recess
and went directly to the office of Her
bert Schmitz O'Mara's visit to
Schmitz was Immediately reported to
Heney. who, after having passed the
talesman, returned to a searching ex-
animation Of him. O'Mara satisfied
Heney that his visit to Schmitz' Office
had no connection with the trial and
of his personal honesty. At the con-
clusion Of his examination Heney az
cepted the elderly retired blacksmith
as an entirely satisfactory juror.
In his opening address Attorney
John ]. Barrett, for the defense, ad-
dressing himself to O'Mara, especially,
had tried to play upon the Jurors pref
udices that might have been aroused
by Heney's original and perfectly nat
ural suspicious. He had told the jurors
that the prosecution would try to scare
them into returning verdict of
guilty. He had played upon the OMara
incident so directly that he evoked
from the juror the pointed assertion:
No one can scare u.s."
Heney addressed himself yesterday to
the juror whom jury critics have been
inclined to consider favorable to the
defense. Looking O'Mara squarely in
the eye, Heney said:
I'll explain why. accepted you as
juror, Mr.. OMara 1t was because
believed you an honest man; because
1 believed you told me the truth; because
L believed you could not be influenced
( from what you believed to be right
by the defense or by any one else.
/ had a challenge left. I need not have
accepted you, Mr.. OMara-"
1t was another touch of the new
Heney. as convincing as It was unex-
pected And, incidentally. it was not
Juror O'Mara who made the second OF
formal ballot necessary when the jury
retired.
TEARS OFF THE MASK
Again, he told the story Of the two
stage robbers whom he had once de-
Tended and who had been convicted
4 The story of the detection and convic-
tion of the men was well told, enter
tainingly. The trapping of a masked
4 highwayman through the medium Of g
3 ma clx nf a hal W. ad k
{ the pages of a dime novel. With the
jury deep in the diverting details of his
story of stage robbery, Heney suddenly
shouted:
where Is that highwayman's mask
introduced in evidence here by the de.
fense2"
The startled attention of the court
was drawn from his specifications 70,
charge in which he had been en-.
crossed. With the Jury, he looked will
surprised inquiry toward the clerk I
was the alleged contract with tn,
French restaurant keepers association
that Campbell had secured from Rue
on cross examination and which Heney
damned with single stroke. 1t wa.
the method of a Belasco. Its effect was
! instantaneous
BY methods equally unusual ant
equally effective he tore into pitiablI
tatters the stories told by Schmitz ant
his witnesses, Smith and Scott. Witt
flashes of unexpected wit and the ap
plication of the coolest logic be proved
the improbability Of the whole films.
defense. When he had done there wa
but one case-that the case of tn
prosecution
He had fayed Schmitz. repudiate,
Ruef, mocked Barrett and compli
mented Campbell. but it was all outsid
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