Bisbee daily review., 1907-01-10
SAYS GRAF TIERS MUST WEAR
 STRIPES
Assistant District Attorney Heney Will Not Leave San Francisco Until His Work Is Accomplished,

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. s.-Assist- ant District Attorney Francis J. Hen ey has rendered his resignation as special assistant to the attorney gen. eral of the United States in the Binger Herman land fraud case in order that he may remain in this city and finish the task of prosecuting the municipal
 grafters.
 Within the last few days Mayor
 Schmftz and Abe Ruef have an that Heney would leave the city on
 February 1st, for the ostensible pur-
 pose of acting as special prosecutor in the Binger Herman case which comes up for hearing in the criminal
 department of the supreme court of
 the Districe of Columbia on February 4th. The word was also passed that
 with the departure of Herey the graft investigation and prosecution would collapse and that Heney would never
 return to San Francisco. This an nouncement was made for the purpose of bolsteTing up the faltering courage
 of those who were wayering in their faith as to the ability of the mayor and Ruef to escape paying the penalty of their crimes against the people.
 When Heney heard last night what | the grafters were saying he flushed
 with anger, and said:
 T intend to stay in San Francisco until I see every one of the grafters
 wearing stripes have sent my resig-
 nation as special prosecutor in the | BingeT Herman case to Attorney Gen. J eral Bonaparte, and I have also ad- vised him that will be unable to ap-
 pear as his assistant in the Hyde-Ben- | son land fraud case which will come | up in the same court on February 10. 1 have not formally resigned in this | case yet because 1 expect that the de- fense will secure a continuance, how ever, if my work in San Francisco is not finished when the case is called will not appear for the government l in this case either. l have given up
 all government business in order to devote my whole time to the task be- ! fore me in San Francisco, and until ! have completed it successfully, l shall
 not leave the city"
 It has also been reported that Will | liam J. Burns is to leave the city to attend to some government investiga- tions elsewhere. This report has been persistently circulated in many quar- | ters by the grafters. Burns denounces i it as a malicious falsehood. He de
 clares that he will stay here until the prosecution of the grafters is success fully completed and convictions again ! fully completed, and convictions against them have been secured.
 1 These announcements shatter the
 last hope of desperate men who are l fighting to save themselves from the penitentiary. All the legal resources | of the attorneys for the indicted may or and Abe Ruef have been exhaust ed in their efforts to delay the grand | jury proceedings and the trials on the 1 indictments already found, until il
 was necessary for Heney to leave the
 city, as they expected, to attend to federal government prosecutions else
 where Every artifice known to cum hing lawyers has been resorted to in order to gain the end sought, and 1t was confidently expected that Heney
 would be compelled to go to Washing ton on February 1st. His resignation in the government cases Is a death
 blow to the hopes of the grafters, who must now resort to other tactics.