Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1908-11-14
HENEY VICTIM
Of ASSASSIN
Famous s Brib cry
Prosecutor Is Sc
riouslyW Wounded
San FRANCISCO STARTLED
Assailant Was Juror Whom
Attorney Had Exposed
Few Weeks Ago.

San Francisco, Nov. 14.-Frequent-
ly since the disaster of 1908, have the
people of San Francisco been startled
and aroused by the revelations and
developments of the tangled mass of
prosecution for bribery and corruption
that followed the sudden overthrow of
Abraham Rueff and the boodling SUI
pervisors of the regime of Mayor
Schmitz, but never has the city been
more profoundly stirred than by the
attempted assassination of Francis J.
Heney. special assistant in the district
attorneys Office, who was shot and
seriously wounded in the court room
by Morris Haas, an ex-convict, whose
past record, Heney exposed a few
weeks ago after Haas had qualified as
juror in the third trial of Ruef for
bribery now in progress.
Early today Heney was sleeping in
the Lane hospital, where he was taken
after his preliminary treatment in the
city hospital. The last statement is
sued by the physicians, declares that
the patient "has good chance to re-
cover" The greatest danger appear
ing to be from blood poisoning and
today an effort will be made to locate
the bullet and probe the exact course
Of the wound. Heney was shot in the
right side of the head as he leaned
forward over a table. The bullet ent
cred half an inch in front4of the right
ear and lodged in the left side of the
heck
Haas, who did the shooting, was
| last night confined in the county Jail
at Cngleside, several miles from the
| center of the city, Abe Kuef was also
| iocFe' I'D fo~ the right, for fear he
might meet with violence from some
excited quarter.
Mass Meeting OF Citizens.
After a meeting of prominent citi.
zens and attorneys last night, a call
| for a mass meeting tonight "to lend
their aid to the cause of justice" All
arrangements were made to continue
the prosecution of Ruef without in
terruption.
District Attorney Langden, who ar
rived this morning from Fresno, an
nounced that he would accept the ser
vices of Matt |. Sullivan, Hiram John
son and j. j. Dwyer, prooffered by
them in the prosecution of Ruef and
| other proceedings connected with the
bribery graft prosecution.
A Vindicive Assassin.
In a statement to the police, Hass
declared that "Heney pronounced his
own death sentence the moment he
] denounced me in court"
| Heney Will Recover.
/ There was no signs of violence to-
wards the prisoners in Jail during the
night.
| At II o'clock, Heney's condition was
favorable to the physicians who are
attending him.
At late hour this afternoon the
attending physicians stated that Pros
ecutOr Heney would recover. He slept
long and well and there has been M
recurrence of the nausea that follow
ed the shock and pain last night aftel
the shooting.
4 Morris Haas, the former liquor deal
er, who shot Heney, spent restles:
night in the cell at the county jai
which was guarded against possible
mob violence by thirty policemen, al
of whom were armed with Winchest
ers.
Abraham Ruef spent the night il
Jail also, having been incarcerated i'm
mediately after the shooting by orde
of Judge Lawler as a precautiol
against further mob violence.
President Roosevelt Sends His Symps
thy to Mrs. Heney.
Washington, ID. c., Nov. 14-Presi
!, dent Roosevelt today sent a Telegram
.. to Mrs. Francis j. Heney, at Sal
Francisco, expressing his deep sympa
thy, horror and detestation of the al
tempted assassination Of her husban
last night.