The San Francisco call., 1908-11-15

ing and probably if he did it would
never have taken place.
TELLS OF SHOOTING
- kept thinking about it all the
time, ne continued. Then 1 made up
my mind and walked over to where
Heney was sitting. He was partly fac
ing toward the way I was walking and
he could have seen me and the pistol,
although I didn't attempt to shoot him
in the back as he did another man.
expected to go to the morgue or the
receiving hospital or the city prison,
as I thought myself 1 would be shot
to death and killed, as I thought ]
could not get out.
I had a .3S caliber Smith & Wesson
pistol I carried it in my coat pocket
right hand side, covered by my coat. I
didn't shoot Heney so much for revenge
as I did it for TO be a warning to
other attorneys not to humiliate people
like myself; that is to show UP a mans
criminal record for an offense commit
ted over 20 years ago, and who was
living a good life, to renew it to the
public and the community in which he
lived, disgracing himself and family.
did not intend to murder Heney, but
would have been satisfied with Grip
pling or soaring him that it may serve
as a warning to others.
In the past six months, when I
would walk on the streets, nobody
would recognize me; the sheriff closed
me out of business, and could not get
any credit, and now I feel better since
the shooting. Now, If I walk in the
streets, If I ever do again, people will
hold their heads up and look at me now
as a man having done something in
stead of being an ex-convict. This
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to me at ALL but it will to others to
let people who serve terms in the
prison alone when they are doing good
During the week that / sat in the jury
box I knew Heney carried a pistol.
While sitting in the box Heney put
his foot upon the chair and I could see
Heney's pistol
NAMES OF WITNESSES
witnesses to the shooting: Richard
Belcher Marysville Cal; Charles Oil
yer, 212s Fillmore street; Ereta Camp
bell, 1852 Post street; L. E. Kirk, 1900
Metropolis bank building; Joseph Cor
don, 114S Webster street; c. H Gish
1882 San Jose avenue; Marion Reeves
2S14 Jackson street; c. c. Cowgirl, 5
Buena Vista avenue; g. w. Bunnell
1906 Telegraph avenue, Oakland; c. R
Insley, Cadillac hotel; DR.. w f. Franck
Z Buena Vista avenue: T. L. Richmond
100 Cole street; Deputy Sheriff F. J.
Coyle; d. L. Fitzgerald, $50 Clement
street; Al McCabe. district attorney
Office; James L. Gallagher, 1868 Nc
Allister street; Louis Levy. newspaper
man; J. S. Wiskotchell, 1112 Fell street;
n. T. Welsh, 1926 Pierce street; Charles
r. Gagan, clerk of Judge Lawlors
court; Platt Elderkin; Carl Won VIE
gand, 256 Montgomery street; Harvey
Wickham, newspaperman. Respect
fully submitted,
IT. T. BURKE, Detective Sergeant"
In addition to this report and the
statement which accompanied it'll Biggy
gave out another and even more posi-
tive interview earlier in the day, as did
also Captain Kelly. Biggy said:
4 am satisfied from the investiga-
tions that have been made by the no.
lice that this is absolutely a one man
or man to man affair. There is no
plot. I am perfectly satisfied of that.
The shooting was the outcome of a
personal grudge.
IF Haas had confided in his wife.
with whom I had heart rending and
heart breaking scene this morning. he
would never have done what he did.
Evidently he forgot her and the chill
dren."
Captain Kelly's interview was of the
same tenor He said:
From Investigations made by myself
and this department, am satisfied that
the shooting of Heney was not the
outcome of any plot or conspiracy.
Haas, after his exposure in the former
Ruef case, kept his troubles to him
SELF He worked himself UP so that he
was actually insane at the time he
fired the shot He blamed his r,,ir
financially and socially, upon Mr.. He
ney."
ATTITUDE FAvORs GRAFTERs
The statements. coming from such a
source, were eagerly seized unon bv +ba
prograft press and were the feature of
an edition of the notoriously rotten
Globe, issued yesterday afternoon. and
of an extra edition Of the Examiner
put upon the streets last night. But