Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-16
HAAS KILLS HIMSELF
Man Who Attempted Life Of
Prosecutor Heney Shoots
Himself in Cell
WEAPON sMueelEO 70 Hi"
WEAPON sMueeLED TO HIM
Revolver Came Into Prisoners Posses
sion in Mysterious Mannsr-Detec-
tive Burn. Says Hs Holds Positive
Evidence Of Conspiracy to Murder
Heney-May Proclaim Martial Law.

San Francisco Nov. 16.--While angry
crowds Of citizens surrounded the jail,
eager for an opportunity to lay hands
on him, Morris Haas, who shot down
Prosecutor Francis j. Heney in Judge
LAWYERS courtroom, committed suicide
by shooting himself.
How he secured the revolver is a
mystery. While details of the suicide
are lacking, as no one was allowed in
side the Jail, 1t is believed that Haas
pulled the bedclothes over his head and
fired the fatal shot under them No in
formation can be obtained at the jail.
The excitement thruout the city is
intense Wild scenes outside the jail
followed the announcement of Haas
death. The news spread to every part
of thy city with lightning rapidity.
Crowd clamored for Prisoner.
The suicide of Haas came as cli-
max of a day crowded with sensation
al events and it occurred while 5000
citizens, worked up to a high pitch of
excitement, were assembled in mass
meeting to voice their anger at the at
tempt to take the prosecutors life.
GIVE us Haas and we'll fix him"
! cried some of those gathered to hear
the speakers.
"Give us Ruef and we'll attend to
the prosecution" shouted others.
How the prisoner got the weapon
with which he ended his life Is what
mystifies the police. 1t is believed that
some one on the outside Struggled 1T
into his CELL tho it was reported that
he had carried this revolver in the top
of his shoe and that the police over
looked it.
1t developed that Chief of Police
Buggy and a police captain questioned
Haas at some length shortly before he
killed himself
May Proclaim Martial Law.
Not since the fire and earthquake has
there beer such feverish excitement In
San Francisco. The guards about the
Jail have been doubled The crowds are
rapidly increasing. Martial law may
be declared.
1t is understood that the armed
guards have been instructed to shoot
if the slightest attempt is made to APP
proach the Jail.
Judging from the feeling that runs
thru the crowds, leader is all that
is lacking to start a mob of several
hundred men in the direction of the
Jail, where Abe Ruef, at whose trial
the shooting took place, is confined at
his own request.
Conspiracy, Says Burns.
The lates sensation came when De-
tective Burns announced that he is in
possession of positive evidence that the
shooting Of Heney was the result Of a
plot.
There is no question about it." said
Burns. 1--WE are now in position to
state positively that Heney was the
victim of plot to assassinate him. I
can say no more at this time"
Burns made this statement directly
after leaving Haas, whom ha inter-
viewed in the county Jail. Persistent
rumors are being circulated in all parts
of the city that arrests may be ex-
pected at any hour. as the outgrowth
Of evidence in Burns possession
Great Mass Meeting Held.
Dreannland Rink was the scene Sat
urday night of perhaps the most re-
markable mass meeting ever held in
San francisco, when 5000 enraged citi-
zens responding to the appeal issued
early in the day by the Citizens
League OF Justice, gathered to listen to
prominent speakers denounced the at
tempt to assassinate the prosecutor.
Mayor Taylor presided and intro
duced the speakers of the evening. The
speakers were: District Attorney
Langdcn, Rudolph Spreckles, James d.
Phelan, DR. William RAIDER, Charles S.
Wheeler, James Burke, president of the
Law association, and Walter Near
thur