The San Francisco call., 1908-11-14
SURVIVES ORDEAL
WITH FORTITUDE
Injured Man on Being Removed
TO Hospital Cautions His
Friend Burns

With heart fun Of courage and
mind % SsciOus and determined that he
would defeat the purpose OF his muir
derous enemies, Francis J. Heney fell
into an undisturbed sleep at midnight
last night at Lane hospital The bull
Jet fred by Haas stiu remained where
81 had lodged. in muscle in the left
side OF the neck. after passing through
the Tigat side of the face between the
cheek bone and the ear and ranging
downward through the mouth. The
physicians in charge determined at
conference not to probe for the bullet
uatiI this morning at 8 80 o'clock. when
an E-rav viii be applied and the leaden
missile removed That the patient was
resting easily and that there was no
fever was the last Information that
came from the sick room last night
AS soon as possible after the shoot
ing an ambulance was summoned and
the assistant district attorney. bleed
ing from the mouth and nose and
stream of blood pouring from the
wound OF the cheek. was removed to
the central emergency hospital. DR..
Charles b. Pinkham. DR.. Wallace J.
Terry chief of the emergency hospital
surgeons, and DR. Watkins were in at
tendance. The prosecutor was placed
on the operating table and the sur
gecrs set about TO stop the suffusion
OF blood.
Heney was conscious all the while.
Special Agent Burns came into the
room, and somebody said. How DO YOU
DO, Mr.. Burns?" Heney, though
suffering intensely. heard the whispered
salUtation and raised his eyes, and
stretching forward his hand he grasped
the hand Of the man who had worked
with him in exposing the graft situa-
tion In this city.
Il believe they have got me this
tine. Billy" he said.
Burns replied that Heney would live
through il all, and the assistant dis
trict attorney replied:
Take good care Of yourself and
don't let them get you.
Mrs. Heney was informed by tele-
phone Of the dreadful occurrence and
hurried 10 the hospital Her courage
was remarkable. Though terribly
shocked at the assassin's attack on
her husbands life she bore up Won
derfulIy calm. After a few moments
conversation with Mr.. Heney she with
drew 10 telephone and summoned
DR. Herbert c. Mohitt DR.. Edwin
BunneI, the family physician. was also
summoned and both physicians arrived
within a short time.
Father Edward. the Jesuit father
also came into the operating room.
He spoke a few words of consolation
TO the wounded man and then quietly
retired.
COURAGE OF HENEY
After preliminary examination Of
the nature of the wound Heney was
taken from the operating table and
removed 10 the ward He took new
courage when his friends gathered
about him and expressed the greatest
determination that he would get well
and fight the fight he has been en-
gagged in for the last two years to the
bitter end.
"AIl / want is little time and I
viii prosecute the man who shot me-
he said.
I viii live to see the graft prosecu-
tion go on it's way to a successful ter
mination. he remarked at another
time.
He recovered so well from the shock
that the physicians in charge thought
ii safe to remove him to the Lane hos
pital al Clay and Webster streets. At
$50 the ambulance was summoned and
the sufferer was placed on a cot and,
with the physicians still attending him,
drawn to Lanes. The driver walked
his horses ali the way. taking great
care not TO disturb the sufferer.
on arriving at Lanes the physicians
held a conference, but determined not
to DO anything until the patient had
sufficiently recovered from the shock
Friends and relatives began to reach
the hospital. Mrs. Heney never left
her husbands side. For her sake
Heney himself never lost his courage
and IN her turn she gave a fine and
splendid example of womanly devotion
and frmness.
Miss Helen Heney, his sister, Mrs.
NcNuIlen. his mother in law. and The
odore F5eney. the nephew of the prose-
cutor who rushed up from Santa Clara
college when he heard Of the shooting.
were also at the bedside Mrs. Judge
Haynes. Mrs Rudolph Spreckels and
Mrs Frank Wilson kept in close touch
with the sick room to comfort the wife
Of the wounded prosecutor and TO lend
whatever feminine assistance possible,
so valuable in time Of stress.
CROWD Al HOSPITAL
a crowd Of 200 persons gathered