The San Francisco call., 1907-06-13


DER known to the high class detective
methods-an understanding which can
not be attacked on the witness stand.
He comes here. Has 7he motive?
DO You remember that Mr.. Campbell
SAID to him, Who is going to decide
whether you told the. full, fair truth?'
ana the question was not answered.
What do you think they would do to
MN II he came here and completely
excuipated the mayor? Do you think
kuef would look into the future under
sucn circumstances and see Mr.. Heney,
Mr.. Spreckels, Mr.. Burns and the others
going to these several judges. whose
duty II would be to impose the penalty
attaching to conviction on all these
lndictments--so multitudinousin num-
Der that if the minimum sentence were
imposed on each all his relatives could
never serve ft-and saying to them,
Mr. Ruef has changed. Be lenient with
him."
Barrett. turned here directly to the
jury, and to make his words more ef-
fective singled out one of the mem
bers of the,jury and directly addressed
In word, Mr.. Bancroft, didn't Ruef
have to involve Schnitz in order to get
terms? He Is under 100 indictments.
yet he was as fippant when he ap-
peared here on the stand as child
playing around a maypole. He had
much at stake, yet he attempted to
joke.
"POLITICAL PERSECUTION.
Mayor Schmitz defeated them in
every fair fight and they resorted to
political persecution. Schmitz was in
vincible. They would give immunity
to every criminal who has touched the
soil of San Francisco for 25 years to
get Schmitz, Didn't they give immun-
ity to Ruef? We said to him: Mr..
Ruef. are you testifying here under
immunity?
The prosecution objected to that
question. 1t was then that Mr. Burns
leaped the gap to Heney's ear and
whispered to him to stop this line of
examination. Mr.. Burns is not here.
Ii he were I'd await his denial.
You can have mine now" said
Heney.
II await his denial. insisted Barrett
Don't YOU know that if Feuef came
down here In a striped suit, into this
holy of holies. with the ignominy. hor-
ror and anguish of a convict dripping
from every pore-suppose we proved to
you thatNthe prosecution would say to
him. We will take off the manacles and
lift the chains and let you out If you
will testify against this defendant
would he not do it?
have another question to ask YOU
IL 1T comes down to this that you
have to choose between Schmitz and
Ruef as witnesses, which would you
believe? Suppose there were no news.
papers, suppose there were no private
prosecution, suppose il were an ordi-
nary case-what would be your YER
dict? You saw Schmitz on the stand.
Did he appear the man the prosecution
describes him, who has done such
things as those they accuse him of?
Remember. you promised to put out of
your mind all of the calumny that has
been heaped upon him in the past five
years. You must believe him one hun
dred times over rather than that un-
sentenced but convicted criminal
1t wouldn't be the first time a man
sold out his friend. / don't care.
whether you think that Ruef is the
blackest scoundrel that ever disgraced
this part of the earth. don't believe
Ruef is guilty of extortion- I believe.
he pleaded guilty because he was told
he would be smothered with indict-
ments If he did not do so. I knew a
mayor once who had been elected to
office under unpromising circumstances.
He got tied UP with a friend who had
done him a service, and that friend was
d
suspicious nature People began to
talk and to abuse that mayor. They
blamed him for being responsible for
the things that friend had done. / went
to see that man and told him that he
was being judged by the acts of his
friend. He said, When / was first
nominated for mayor my candidacy was
joke, even among my friends, until
the campaign was over. I have walked
IN g. tro ~, 49,
tended to be my friends and who could
have helped me turn into a doorway to
avoid me. All but one-ttst one man
stood by me through thick and thin
The harder they hammer him thu more
shall stand by him. That mayor was
Schmitz and that man was Ruef"
HENEY WOULD CROSS EXAMINE
May / have the privilege of cross
examination interjected Heney,
springing to his feet.
Barrett turned to him with a look
of annoyance.
That's refreshing. / said to the
mayor that his course might not be
an easy one, and such a course may
not euit the man who keeps so close
to tle sugar barrel It's easy for man
to c1me to you when you have gained
an Office and asked for help, but not
you are running for Office and ask If
he can help you.
II have told you I believed this
prosecution is not pursued because
there is any belief in the guilt of
Schmitz and now let me in closing tell
you story to bear out what / have
stated as my belief
Barrett's story was description of a
trip which he stated he had taken five
years ago to the Hawaiian islands. In
a studied burst of oratory he described
the beauties of the islands as they con-
fronted him one after the other, their
refreshing glory convincing him, he
said, hat here must have been located
the Garden of Eden. He dwelt for a
moment on the terrible contrast af-
forded by the presence in this paradise
of the lepers who infest certain of the
islands, and then turned to descrip-
ton of the kanakas who labor on the
island plantations. He told of their
gentle character and disposition, and
then with a sudden frenzied burst of
recrinlination, containing every atom
of the hatred borne by the defense to-
ward Rudolph Spreckels, and reeking
with the venom of angry despair,
brought his speech to an abrupt close.
He told of giant overseer. pointed out
to him as a man hired to kick and beat