Los Angeles herald., 1907-10-19
HENEY GUSTS
JUROR WHO (
PLA VS. BRIDGE
SHE'S A GAMBLERw SHOUTS
PROSECUTOR
ATTORNEYS in BITTER WRANeLE
OVER ATTACK
Rouers and Moore Defend TaIesman
Who Is Accused - Court Rules
Against Him or. Ground That
He Is Immoral

BY Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 1S.-Inside iufor-
nation of crap games black JACK,
chuckaluck and bridge whist, coupled with
charges of immortality and perjury flung
into tine teeth of qualified juror oy
Prosecutor Francis j. Heney, enlivened
the closing hours of today's session Of
the Ford bribery trial, and incidentally
provoked from Attorney A. A. Moore Oh
the defense a speech remarkable for its
hand fluency and satirical force
The prosecution desired to be rid, with
out exercising one of Its five perenptory
challenges, of Harry H. Berg, the first OF
the twelve jurors accepted subject TO
arbitrary dismissal, and with this object
in view reopened his examination.
He is Fillmore street cigar dealer. and
yesterday he testified that gambling wa )
not carried on in a room in the rear OF
his stand. This statement did not tally
with what Detective William j. Burns
knew of the place, and this afternoon
Heney forced from Berg admissions that
until short time before the recent ap-
pointment of Chief of Folice Biggy many
gambling games were regularly conducted
there; also that he himself had 'gambled
at whist" in the rear room no longer ago
than last night.
After long and bitter fight put UP by
Ford's lawyers, IIeney succeeded In hav-
ing Berg removed from the panel, "as an
unfit and immoral person, perjurer and
one obviously opposed to the enforcement
of law"
PanueI Completed
Twenty-Five veliiremen were examined
today Eight passed the qualification
tests and completed the probationary
panel Adjournment was taken unTii
Monday morning, when peremptory- chas-
lenges will be exercised.
The panel which will face the five per-
emptories of the prosecution and tho Ten
of the defense Monday is as follows:
John p. Jenkel, jeweler.
Arthur Brown, architect.
Martin F. Cosgr,ff, merchant
Henry Liebert, commission merchant,
Frank L. CUNT. retired undertaken.
Russell H. Hudson, furniture dealer.
William j. Conrad, paint and oil dealer.
Edward T. Morton. employe of Wells
Fargo Express company.
Leon A. Lazarus jeweler.
George w. Caswell, merchant.
Harry E. Adams, insurance superinten-
dent.
James B. Blair, officer of an engineering
More than one,third of these twelve
men are Masons, as is the defendant
When Heney had concluded his remorse-
less re-examination of Juror Berg he said,
addressing the court: There is no ground
of challenge that can be urged against
this Juror but the court has the undoubted
right to excuse him as an unfit person 70
serve upon u jury. He has voluntarily
reriured himself because he now admits
that there was gambling in thar back
room. and that he was gambling there
foe pipht recently IS
that The right of the court to secure
"Mav ask" interrupted Rogers. what
counsel refers to as gambling? If he IS
defining bridge whist as gambling ] want
to know it before we get away from the
subject"
play 1t for money; certainly, Hepey au-
swered with some heat.
Mr. Moore.-So is mumbleypeg. se''-.,
Mr.. Heney-.-So is chuckaluck, and so is
craps.
have played that myself
Mr.. Heney--Oh, well, | have played q
few things, too, myself But we nre not
posing as moral reIorihefs' We aie 'rs i'ie
to get fiji jurors.
onnosing counsel at this point engaged
in q stubborn dispute as to the legal
mower of the cour. to dismiss Berg. Then,
barking back to the human gist OF Il,
Rogers queried Heney.
,May | ask II it ia not true-while |
don't know anything about 1t myself
tha+ IN tenths of the houses ON Pa
cific avenue YOU can find bridge whist
heinp played for money, any old pightso
since the devastation of Mob Hill Pacific
avenue has been San Franciscos social
parade.
Heney said he didn't think that was so.
He added: "And they don't play oiiucka-
luck, and they don't nave pr'iessioilai
gamblers hanging around
Moore Makes Great Speech
Then Mr.. Moore launched himself in a
stream of speech that won tbs ileeting
fame of the hour.
'tIfs your honor please, ne saIu' we
are profoundly touched VIII .nc nopis
ambition of these apostles OF CIVIC telorm,
which constitutes them an aegis OF the
trial nanel either for man wbe plays
bridge whist or resorts to my KIND or I'M
morality.
eve don't know the alleged profess
sional gamblers said to form the ihmiliars
of this juror; neither do we know Whetner
Mr. Burns In bis midnight perambula-
tions was disguised or took the curl out
of his mustache last night or put on
false whislxers or whether any one or
fhis noble band was in waiting at this
cigar stand to see what went on there;
whether alone the chief apostle upon
whose head there rests halo, or %hetner
he was surrounded by gamblers or men
of immoral life; we know nothing of that.
''TIe may have been urrounded by the
myrmidons OF the big stick, and he may
not. We don't know who was with MIN.
We don't propose to put ourselves in the
position OF being apologists for any man
Of immortality. and we rejoice with q
great joy that these gentlemen who are
cleaning out this Oregon stable are ac-
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