The San Francisco call., 1907-06-13

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case when he believed he had clinched
his point.
John J. Barrett. in opening the argu-
ment for the prosecution. devoted his
efforts largely to an attempt to dis
credit the testimony of Reagan and
Ruef He claimed that the testimony
showed that the French restaurant plot
had its origin with Reagan and argued
that Ruef perjured himself as the
price of immunity. At times Barrett
made pointed references to members
Of the prosecution which drew forth
spirited answers from Heney. AT one
time Judge Dunno checked Barrett as
he launched on a TRADE against Ru-
dolph Spreckels. but Barrett managed
TO score his point by a veiled reference
10 Spreckels in his conclusion.
Barrett dwelt at length upon the ap-
pearance Of Ruef as a witness. and
stated that he had come into the court
room mot only haudcuffed~ but
gagged" He claimed that Burns had
sprung into the breach during the tes-
timony Of Ruef and had warned Heney
when to stop the examination.
Did you not see Burns asked Bar
rett leap the gap to Heney's ear2
II Mr.. Burns were here" continued
Barrett, i would give him an opportu-
nifty TO deny It"
I deny il. and Mr. Barrett knows 1t
is not true" retorted Heney.
IF Mr. Burns were here / would give
him an opportunity to deny it," re-
peated Barrett. suavely ignoring the
Interruption.
Barrett pictured Ruef IN convict
garb and violently denounced the cap
tive boss for deserving the mayor in
his hour of need. -
JOHNSON BEGINS ADDRESS
Special Prosecutor Hiram w, John
son began his address TO the jury at
2:25 O'Clock in the afternoon and spoke
until $40. lie said:
IF your honor please, and gentlemen
Of the jury: In the usual trite man.
ner I shall endeaVor to present to you
the case Of the people This is COM
mon crime Of extortion. but this is not
the case OF a common malefactor; il
far transcends the mere eXtortion which
might be practiced by a common male
factor. for underlying that simple
proposition We have on trial here not
only the indictment brought against
this defendant, not only his act as the
representative Of this city, but we have
trial the city and county of San
Frencisco-we have on trial practically
which have been handed down to as
through many years OF trial, tribula-
tion and bloodshed
a British critic has said OF this
country that the one place where the
American system Of government ap-
peared to fail was in its municipalities
II there is a man on this jury who will
fan TO adjudge this man guilty. who by
reason Of supineness viii vote to acquit
this man who has dishonored his office
and broken every commandment which
bound him to this municipality, then
for that British critic there will be a
demonstration of the failure of this
particular system, to be found in this
city. But 1 viii not dwell on that as
pect of the case-T shall leave that for
the speech of him of glorious record
who will follow me
All that I want is your integrity,
and TO your integrity the people of the
state OF California and the people OF
this city and this court and this de-
feBdant are all entitled.
IN considering this defendant II is
not q question OF your servant and
mine whom we have before us, but it
is that Of the servant of all the people