Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-14
HENEY IN A VlTRIOLIc
SPEECH ATTACKS THE
DEFENDANTS ATTORNEYS
By Assooiated Press.

DEF FENDAN . a IOHNEYS
BY Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, June 1S.-The last
half day of the trial holds the record
for attendance. When the big double
doors Of the synagogue were thrown
open at 2 o'clock by a bluff sergeant
of police, there was a rush up the steps
and into the auditorium that fairly
shook the building.
The first climax of the bribery graft
prosecution - the first speech of
Francis j. Heney to a bribery graft
jury in California-WaS the magnet
that drew them ALL
Heney commenced by saying: 9Gen-
tlemen of the jury, 1 congratulate you
on the fact that our labors are nearly
over When we commenced this case
1 said all we wanted was a square
deal, hewing right to the line. There
is one attorney on the other side who
tries his case like a fair lawyer.
mean Mr.. Campbell. 1t is a pleasure
to meet an attorney who shuffes the
cards fairly and does not deal from the
bottom; who does not slip the card
from a box that has been fixed. But
the defense has two kinds of attorneys.
One of them said I was sitting in the
lap of Mr.. Spreckels. Butt no one
knows better than Mr.. Barrett that
sit in no ones lap or no one could sit
in my lap. No one knows better than
Mr.. Barrett that no one could 1ntimi
date me. I scorn the newspapers as
much as you do I fling back at all of
them the dirty scurrilous attacks they
have made. 1 have not sat sucking the
municipal vat for four years like Mr..
Barrett. l want to refute the nasty,
cowardly attack made on my chief, Mr..
Langdon. Nobody knows better than
Mr.. Barrett that Mr.. Langdon was
busy with important affairs connected
with the grand jury. Nobody knows
better than Barrett that Langdon is
his superior in every line. Mr.. Lang
don in securing my services wanted
man who had experience in prose-
cutting criminals like the man on
trial"
Heney in Rage
Heney's manner was most dramatic,
He hurled his vitriolic sentences at the
jury in an impassioned manner at the
top of his voice. When he finished his
denunciation he said: That's the
Irish part of me, gentlemen"
Heney referred to his experience at
hard work as a laborer. Addressing
Juror O'Mara, Heney said Barrett had
called his attention to Heney
II looked you in the eye, Mr..
O'Mara," he said, land saw you were
an honest man, and did not challenge
you. The Irish in me makes me want
to fight when 1 meet a man like Bar
rett. When I meet a man like Mr..
Campbell, who deals his cards above
the table, I meet him half way and
play the game fairly.
Now I'm through this part, gentle
men. and will say nothing more un-
pleasant We won't ask a conviction
unless you are satisfied beyond any
doubt that the defendant is guilty. The
court will instruct you as to the law
in the case. A threat must not neces-
sarily be a verbal one. Circumstances
that convinced the French restaurant
keepers they could not conduct their
business unless they engaged Ruef con-
stituted a threat.
''It is not necessary for you to be-
lieve that Schmitz got any of the
money. If you believe that Schnitz,
aided by his action toward Reagan in
forcing these men to go to Ruef, he IS
guilty. whether he got any of the
money or not
Heney then described the methods of
many OF the French restaurants and
said:
"If Ruef and schmitz wanted to hold
these men UP, how would they go
about it?
do you think they would be so raw
as to send the mayor to them and de-
mand money? Is that the way they
would commit crime? Not at ALL"
Heney then related as an illustration
how he defended couple of stage rob-
bers who were convicted. They did not
advertise that they were going to rob
the stage. zone of them, a school
teacher" he said, 'had a good head,
like the Napoleon of crime, Abe Ruef
The school teacher prepared defense
in advance, but was caught. That is
what Ruef did when he prepared his
contract with the French Restaurants
association.
"Ruef could afford to take all the
blame. They could put it on Reagan,
who was so honest that he had to be
shown all the time. Ruef could rob
the French restaurants while the mayor
told them how he loved them, how he
liked to eat there"
Pays Respects to Scott
Heney then paid his respects to Wit
ness Scott of the walters union in sar-
castle terms that raised a laugh.
"If you lived In New York and read
in the papers that a restaurant you
owned had been held up you would
know that Abe Ruef did it. Schmitz
was mayor and appointed the police
commission. Everybody knew that
Ruef controlled the mayor
In colloquial language. Heney de-
scribed how Ruef and Schmitz con-
spired together to hold up the restau-
rants, using facts brought out in the
evidence. Ruef diend at the Pup every
night, where Schmitz met him. How
did Loupe, the proprietor, know enough
to go to Adler of the Bay State and
tell him he was going to have trouble
long before the trouble came? "Loupe,
the Pup" knew all about it in adj
vance,
IT believe in unions, but do not be-
lieve in their use by dirty dogs to ex-
tort money. Poor labor! 1t has to
stand for the crimes of great many
labor leaders who never did an honest
stroke of work in their lives.