Valdez weekly prospector., 1908-08-27
PROSECUTOR HENEY 1 CALLED 4 CRATER

prosecutor and graft eradicator, who never gets q conviction past the ap- pellate courts. is under suspicion now because he received $i5,O0o from one of San Francisco's big grafting cor porations without performing any ser vice to earn it that anybody ever heard of. He gets angry when per sons talk about it but he refuses all explanation. Here is the story.
 In an audit of the accounts of the Contra Costa Water Company. it was found that the legal expenses distrib- | uted among eight attorneys was $55,- 9O1, and that of this sum Honey re- ceived $42, ,5OO, or $13,4O1 more than all the otherl lawyers combined. There are three items showing what Heney was paid. Ono was for $25O0 in 1905 and another for $10, ,000 in 1906. These were paid by check. Between these two has been found receipt from Heney for $3O,O sum not paid by check. The date of the receipt is June 5, 1905.
 What Heney did to receive such an immense fec is not disclosed in the records, nor is there any trace of how the money was paid nor what Hency did with it. The receipt, with He ney's signature attached and made out on his own lcttcr-hcad, is the sole evi- dence that Heney was given the am- ount for illegal services"
 fS In E,t of lhie or,,H ascertain what IIeney did to earn s the San Francisco Examiner has stituted an investigation. The oI results thus far can be summarized follows:
 Item-Heney angry and dcmonI |< tive, but unoXplaining.
 Item-One Examiner rcportc <;7 ed as he was leaving the home. l5
 When the reporter asked Sz what the $3O, ,O0O fee was for, < 4a mer terror of Oregon land
 tists lost control of his telkH j ordered the scribe to ski(f the newspaperman was dePartihg through the door Heney prapltaIeo t the retreat of his visitor bya rigorous E#z introduction of his bootmakct to the sz reporters tailor. This lank move M ment caught tho reporter nprepare" s and the interviewer was r'Jehly sur prised but painod. Thcnte cllncho0 with Honey and the two tolled oom" v, the stairs almost to tie sioe""iN c.
 
 rated his arms few mre times mls- sing his mark. A detective ln plaih clothes, whose duty it is to WaVcn Heney's house, next suCCres-~%r ne ney in handling the reporter and threatened to tote him off to jail. The reporter dared the officer to ar- rest him and the sleuth rccOnsidcred.
 While this was going on at the foot of the stairs, Heney ran back to his front door and urged the reporter to send the editor down, so that the cdi tor could be drubbcd. Aside from the calisthenics Hency attempted to put in force on the interviewer, there were no other developments. Heney refused point-blank to explain why he had received the $3O,OOO or what he did with it.
 Having failed to get any informa- tion from Hcncy, the Examiner next turned it's attention to District AttOr- noy Ladgdon, and incidentally re- vamped some old stories about jIc- ney. One of thosc is q copy of the court record showing thatin 1891, IIc- ney was fined $2O for irregular con duct in his relation with jurors. This narrative is to the effect that while Heney was defending prominent citizen the jury was turned loose one night and Heney, the defendant and others drank in q saloon,
 The Examiner, while inquiring as to the whynoss of the S3O,OOO reminds Heney that he has failed as q graft prosecutor and that although he has been working OH the job for two years, out of thirty or more guilty men only one is under conviction, not one is in custody, and it has becn months since Henoy has seen fit to place any of the accused on trial. Heney's midnight sessions with judg- es bred distrust, asserts tho paper, and jury after jury has by verdict told him that tho community does not believe in Heney nor his violent speeches.
 District Attorney Langdon has re- fused to question Heney about the S3O000 and eas made q public state- ment to the effect that Heney's pri- yaEe business is no concern of the