The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1908-11-18
ALAWYER SHOT
By a Saloon Keeper because, As
He Claimed,
he HAD RUINED HIM

Charge Of Bribery, Brought to an
| Abrupt Halt by Man Shooting the
Prosecuting Attorney in the Cours
Room in the Presence Of Many.
San Francisco, Nov. 13.-Franeis
J. Hensy, leading figure in the
| prosecution OF municipal corruption
IN San Francisco, was shot and sa-
riously wounded at 1928 o'clock to-
day in Judge Lawlor's Court room
by Morris Haas, a Jewish saloon
keeper, who had been accepted as a
Juror in previous trial OF Abraham
Ruef and afterwards removed, it
having been shown in Court by
Heney that Haas was an ex-eenviet,
a fact not brought out in his exami-
nation as a Venireman.
The shooting of Heney occurred in
the presence OF many persons in the
Court room during a recess in the
trial of Abraham Ruef, on the trial
for the third time on the charge OF
bribery. At 6 o'clock tonight Mr..
Eeney, who regaiued consciousness
and will likely recover, said:
.tI will live to prosecute Haas aad
Ruef."
The Court had taken recess for
ten minutes and the jury had left
the room. Heney and Ruers atter- :
neys. Ach and Dozier, had Just re- /:
turned from Judge Lawlor's cham o.
ers, where they had been summoned
by the Judge for conference. Atter
the conference Ach and Dozier re-
turned to the Court room and Heaey
returned to his customary seat.
He was talking with former Super
visitor Gallagher, who had just pre-
viously undergone a severe cross
examination by Ruef's attorneys,
when Haas rushed up out of the ar- 6
dience. Haas approached Heney,
placed revolver against the prose-
cutor's right cheek and fired. Henev
fell over on the desk, blood stream
ing from the wound. Haas was i'm
mediately seized by by-stan6ers and
thrown iDto the empty jury box,
where he was held on his back. till
the police came.
Haas, while a verireman in the
second Ruef bribery trial, was put to
severe examination by Heney,
while he was examined for juyr du-
ty. He asserts that the Information
brought out by Heney in his question
resulted in the ruin of his business.
that Of q saloon keeper.
Haas in the second Ruef trial had
been passds as juror. Then one day
in Court Heney dramatically pro-
duced a photograph Of Haas, taken
at San Quentin penitentiary; in con-
vict garb and with cropped hair and
with his number across his breast.
Haas collapsed in Court, admitting
that he had beeH convict. He WEE
Immediately discharged from the
jury.
News Of the shooting spread rap
idly, and an immense crowed gath
cred in the corridors of the Court
building. A large force Of police,
headed by Chief Biggy, surrounded
the building and kept the crowd
back. A number OF men, who were
suspected Of beisg there to create
trouble, were arrested.
Haas in 2 statement after the :
shooting said:
~ am the wronged man. I do not
care what become of me now.
have sacrificed myself not for my
own honor but for the honor Of
those who are situated like myself.
would not have, brought my four
children into the world to bear such
brand if I had known that the fact
that 1 was a former convict would
become known. Heney ruined me.
That is why shot hin"
After the shooting Judge Lawlor
called the Court to order and imme-
diately ordered Ruet taken into Gus
tody, overruling the objection OF
Attorney Ach Attorney Dozier ask
ed that the witness, Gallagher, also
be taken into custody, but the Court
declined to issue the order. The
Judge then adjourned Court until
Monday.
Close examination of the wound
showed that the bullet entered
| through the right cheek and lodged
under the left ear. 1t barely missed
| the carotoid artery, and at another
point the arteries were not rupl-
| ured.