Arizona republican., 1907-10-05
Battle Between Legal Giants for His AC-
 quittdI and His Conviction
The Defense Makes the Most of the Failure Connect Him Directly With the Board Bribed Super- visOrs-

made under threats and coercion the story itself should be viewed by hon est men as lie. Rogers snapped this up by replying that under that reason |, ing the jury must view the testimony Of all supervisors in the case as lies. for every one of them had testified under the weight of notorious eoer- cion imposed by Spreckles. Burns and i Heney.
 At 12:15 Rogers requested an ad- tournment as he was obviously ex- hausted by the vehemence of his pleading. Rogers resuming at the af- ternoon session, impressed upon the jury the exactions of the law. that the burden of proof was upon the prosecu- tion and that the defendant must be acquitted unless all the testified cir , cumstances were consistent with his guilt. so as to exclude beyond reason- able doubt, his innocence He laid powerful stress on the failure and re- fusal of the prosecution to make a witness of Ruef after promising in it's opening statement to prove by the tes- timony of Ruef that Ford had paid S20O.000 in bribe money to him. Rog- CTS demanded to know why. if Patrick Calhoun desired to bribe the supervis- ors. he did not transport s2O0.00O here secretly so as to hide his tracks iil- stead of passing i; publicly through , the mint in broad daylight. through a , relief corporation. "at that time the most public place in San Francisco. if not in the country" He asked the jury why Heney did not fulfil his bOasted promise" to show that that $30O. 900 was never entered in the United Rail- roads books when we brought our | books here.' Said Rogers. Heney has [ side stepped and evaded his promise. he has made no attempt to make good If Heney is going to get a convic- ton on paper money. if he is going to send a man te the penitsntiaNy on
 denominations of currency, perh.sps. 4e will be adroit enough to har-nOriize
 for you the testimony of the mint of i ficials that the largest bills they gave Ford were gold certificates of the de-
 nomination of s10O. with the testimony
 of his own immunity-bathed super
 visors that they got $500 in bills They charge in the indictment. solemnly in their opening statement. and promised
 to prove the charge to you that Tirey ] bribe. I defy them. now. to point to
 one word of testimony introduced in the case in substantiation of the
 charge and the promise. They've fal- len down; they have not delivered the
 goods, yet they're trying to secure a
 verdict from you just the same as if
 they'd kept their pledge. vindicated
 their damnable charge and earned a conviction at your hands,
 In conclusion Rogers demanded to
 know where was the link connecting
 Ford with Ruef. Tt is not here" he
 answered. They could not forge it
 though they kept the fires in their
 secret forges blazing night and day" ! He closed finally with q strong
 though not bitter arraingment of Ru- | dolph Spreckles. Heney. Burns and Langdon. Heney was accused as "a [ private prosecutor of coining his pro- i fession for the blood of Tirey I. Ford and his weeping wife" Rogers finish
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