The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-11-24

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der of the Mission Police Station, have
been placed on guard at the County
Jail to protect Morris Haas, the assail-
ant of Prosecutor Heney, and Abe
Ruef from possible attack by mob.
The posse was Hurried to Ingleside
soon after the prisoners were taken
there, under the protection of strong
escourt. The use of rifles in the Po-
lice Department seldom becomes ne
cessary, but Chief Buggy is determin-
ed to take every precaution to ward
eff an attack. The men have also
been given extra rifles and 200 rounds
of ammunition.
SAN FRANCISCO, November 15.-.
District Attorney Langdon and Detec-
tive William ]. Burns spent the after
noon with Haas in his cell at the In
gleside Jail The prisoner was not as
non-committal as he was on the day
before and by a series Of questions he
was forced to admit that influences,
the sources of which are known to the
prosecution, inspired his dastardly at
tack on Prosecutor Heney. The Dis
trict Attorney is carefully guarding
this information until he can verify it.
In the meantime he will not go further
than to admit that the crime was the
direct result of suggestion from per-
sons interested in the outcome of the
Ruef trial.
"The statements which Haas made
this afternoon" Langdon said, ARE
sufficient to base a case of conspiracy,
but l must absolutely "efuse to make
them public
Morris Haas, the rejected juror, who
shot Francis ]. Heney on Friday af-
ternoon, committed suicide at $40
o'clock last night in his cell at Coun-
ty Jail No. g He fired a bullet into
his forehead while he Law OF his cot,
wrapped up in a blanket and appar-
emily asleep. His weapon was a Al
caliber derringer, an antique-pattern
single-shot firearm, which, it is said,
he had been able to conceal without
being discovered by either his guards
or the two sets of policemen and de-
tectives, who searched him after his
arrest.
Haas went to bed at s o'clock, and
had been allowed by his guards, De-
tective Sergeant Thomas Burke and
Patrolman Dennis Burke, to sleep with
his shoes on. This peculiar request
was made on the previous evening. and
granted by the prison authorities. 1t
was considered odd, but no particular
notice was taken of it, and no sus-
picion was aroused, although the two
searches of the prisoner had been de-
fective, in that the shoes were not
taken off and examined. The police
say that the shoes, old-fashioned gait
ers, were the only place where a small
revolver could be concealed.
Haas slept both nights with his eel
door open and two guards patrolling
the corridor. Patrolman Bohle was
the last man to talk with the pris-
oner. He says that Haas seemed fairly
cheerful, and did not exhibit the rest
lessness which characterized him on
his first night in jail Five minutes
before the fatal shot was fired Bohle
looked into the cell, and saw his pris-
oner apparently sleeping. Haas opened
his eyes and glanced at the policeman,
but Immediately closed them agani.
Bohle stepped out into the corridor
again, and the next thing that hap
pened was the report of the pistol
ringing through the prison and telling
everybody that tragedy had come as
a sequel to the Heney shooting.
The manner in which Haas obtained
and kept the weapon with which he
took his life last night, is something
which will need a rigid police investi-
cation. Detective Burns said last
night that he believed the weapon had
ben slipped into the mans cell yester~
day afternoon by somebody who elud-
ed the vigilance of the prisoners
guards.
Captain of Police Thomas Duke, in
the presence of Detective William j.
Burns, searched Morris Haas in the
rear of the courtroom on Friday af-
ternoon, following the shooting of AS
sistant District Attorney Francis j.
Heney, and is authority for the state
ment that Haas could not possibly
have concealed a weapon from the
searchers. He said:
MY search of Haas was made in the
presence of Detective Burns and was
very exhaustive. Everything was re-
moved from Haas person. was
afraid that he contemplated suicide,
and my search was the more careful
on that account. Every article OF
clothing was examined, and not even a
scrap of paper that might contain
poison was left to him. That a der
ringer should have escaped us is no
more possible than that We should
have overlooked a cannon. l am posi-
tive that Haas never left that court
room with a weapon in his posses
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