The San Francisco call., 1907-06-14

case. When he came to the considera-
ton of the evidence he considered evil
dence and evidence-personaiue and
rhetoric were relegated. forgotten.
CAMPBELL CLOSES FOR SCHMITZ
The closing address for the defense,
delivered by ]. c. Campbell, was more
than creditable. He, too, made an eHort
to confine himself to the case he had
sought to prove in defense OF his
client. He was dignifed and convinc-
ingly sincere. But his foundation Tor
argument was woefuI1y short He ois-
missed the "frenzied Frenchmen forc-
ing easy money on Ruef theory ad-
yanced by Barrett. He confined himseif
generally to an attempt to convince tne
jury that the evidence proved that the
conspiracy against the French res
taurants was Matched by Reagan and
the officers of the cooks. walters and
bartenders' unions.
Campbell warned the jury against
convicting Schmitz on evidence touch
ing crimes not alleged in the partfcu-
lar indictment, and in conclusion made
an eloquent appeal to the jurymen's
sympathies for the wife and children
of the accused mayor.
The courts charge to the jury was
source of eminent satisfaction to the
defense. 1t presented sc requests for
specific charge. The. requests had been
prepared by Fairall, of counsel. The
court acceded to almost all OF them.
And, granting the requests for charge.
he read as his charge the requests ex-
actly as framed by Fairall. That each
contained the law on the particular
phase of the case touched is beyond
question; but, with the skill of the de-
fendant's counsel, they were SO worded
as to present the law, to one untaught
in it's mysteries, as strongly In favor OF
Schmitz.
The defense evidently had expected
the court to frame its several requests
in language less obscure and mislead-
ing to the jury. But Judge Dunno
either through a better appreciation of
the ability of the jury to weigh the
purport of the long charge than any
one else had. or through sheer unwill-
ingness to appear in the slightest de-
the requests exactly as framed by
Fairall
GREAT THRONG ATTENDS
The seating and standing room Of the
Bush street temple was taxed to the
utmost at both sessions Of Schmitz' last
day in court. An hour before the doors
were opened crowds filled the street
before the temple. When the doors
were opened the police detail found 1T
more than difficult to handle the crush
and was utterly unable to enforce the
courts rule against overcrowding the
building. The court himself evidently
took a sort of judicial notice of the
popular interest in the closing scenes
of a trial that meaut so much to San
Francisco and San Franciscans and
winked at the disobedience Of his or
der
The crowds of yesterday were differ
ent The galleries were more than half
filled with women and many women
struggled for places on the main floor,
where the crush was too strenuous for
all save the hardest of the feminine
contingent. They were representative
crowds, too. All walks in the life of
San Francisco were there-priests and
prize fighters, merchants and laborers-
bankers and lawyers, doctors and
statesmen; aye, and educators, too.
Boyle and Roncovieri occupied seats at
the mayors back during the morning.
True Roncovieri shrank down so low
in his chair that Boyle loomed giant
above him-a sort of optical Illusion,
as 1t were, quickly dispel1ed when the
two stalked from the courtroom side
by side later. But, modestly and retir-
ing as he would, Roncovieri was there.
DISTINGUISHED MEN PRESENT
gressman C. e. Littlefie1d, formerly at
torney general of Maine, member of
the house committee on judiciary in
the national Legislature, forced his way
toward the bar and for an hour gave
the closest and apparently satisfied at
tention to Heney and his altogether
unusual address.
At the morning session Judge Nc
Sorley of Calaveras sat at the bench
with Judge Dunno and throughout the
afternoon Judge Lennon of Marin sat
beside the court, either deep In atten-
ton to Heney or discussing the re-
quests for charge with Judge Dunno.
The day saw the whole trial which
has consumed two weeks compressed
and represented in many hours. 1t
was a day of absorbing interest-in-
terest SO tense that the occasional
flashes of wit or near wit from the
attorneys came as a welcome relief
to strained nerves. The nation watched
the last day of that trial with the
crowds at the Bush street temple and
at the close of the day the world with
these crowds gave thanks for the YER
dict that proclaimed San Francisco no