The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1907-10-29
FORD PLEADED
FOR IMMUNITY,
HENEY ASSERTS
Prosecutor, Witness in the
Older Case, Accuses
Rogers and Brown
SUMMERFIELD A TOOL
Says the Disrated Calhoun
Detective Controls Los
Angeles Officials
BOSS PARKER NAMED
Appointees Charged With
Aiding in kidnapping of
Bulletin Editor

"Fremont older would have been n
ff Ford had gone on the stand and de-
nled that he had sent Lewis r. Bying-
tor, TO Older to get Immunity for him."
Testimony of Assistant District Attor-
ney Heney at hearing on motion to set
aside the Luther Brown and Porter
AsIe indictments.
sT asked Roche t0Ider's attorney 10
see that certain evidence was brought
Angeles. / .nnted 10 make sure that
witnesses were net suhorned again ny
Luther G. Brown. because had heard
that he and Earl Rogers were in the
business OF subornsHg jurors and witt
-.esses. and also TINT they cwaed THIS
down there, snd that hc ard Walter
Parker had had him ltsic justice) put
In. ard also the constables that came
up here aad aided in the kidnapping of
older. L aIso heard that he controlled
the district attorney's office; that Wal
ter Parker had appointed every deputy,
ard that Captain Fredericks (the dis
trfct attorney Is candidate for con-
grcss. and that Luther Brown is the
po,ft.caI boss of the congressional dis
frtct and chairman of that delegation,
and that at ienst ono of the constables
who came UP Is Il member of that COM
n,iftee.--HeDey's testimony.
Assistant District Attorney IIeney
was a witness for but Is minutes in
Judge Dunne's court yesterday during
the hearing of the motion of Attorney
Bert Schlesinger to have set aside the
indictments charging Luther G. Brown.
the disrated chief of Patrick Calhoun
gumshoe men, and r. Porter Ashe, the
deposed attorney for Tirey L. Ford,
with KIDNAPPING Fremont Older, the
newspaper editor. But during those 3
minutes he made the courtroom sizzle
with his accusations against Brown,
who was in the courtroom, and Earl
Rogers. who was not. w Hoff Cook
and Charles w. Cobb represented the
district attorneys Office.
schlesinger sought to have the in
dictments set aside on the ground that
Heney had appeared before the grand
jury and examined witnesses relating
to the kidnapping charge while he was
attorney for Older in the criminal libel
case Older had been arrested on a
charge of criminally libeling Luther G.
Brown in the Bulletin, and the arrest
had been carried out without proper
procedure The point that Heney was
Older's witness was backed up by
Schlesinger with a telegram sent by
Heney to the district attorneys office,
in which Heney had asked that the pre-
nminary examination of Older be con-
tinued, as he wanted to appear.
Yesterday Heney admitted the tele-
gram, which was produced in court
sistant district attorney for Los Angeles
county But he said that the tele-
gram was in error and that he had at
no time intended to appear for tho ac-
cused editor. but simply to be in court
that he might watch the methods of
Luther Brown.
Heney asserted that while he pre-
sented the case against Brown and Ashe
to the grand jury. he did not argue the
facts. in relatioSl to the sending Of
the telegram the assistant district at
torney declared that he wanted to be
in Los Angeles TO protect the interests
of any one connected with the case.
Then he gave his crisp views on Brown
and Earl Rogers connection with the
Los Angeles district attorneys Office
and with Justice. SummerHeld, before
whom Older was to have been ar
raigned.
Heney went on to say under the re-
luctant encouragement Of schlesinger's
questions that Luther Brown had at
! tempted to kidnap Lonergan. and pre-
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