The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-04-03

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Avcn1e 3atMers Mwrdcv
BY WILL IRWIN.

A stirring bit of real life is recounted by VIII Irwin in his article in
sassmHon whch have marked the progress Of the San Francisco Graft Prose
eatn Te storyiis told N connection with a en-know nMr OF ffanAs
I'M r. HANDY. local physician Tor the Southern PACING ompan IN
Tuscon, va a violent and dangerous mn He had Abused and
deserted his wife. and she as suing him for divorce Handy
declared that he would Kill. any lawyer who took her. ase Heney did Ike IT,
I will shoot him with his own gum said Handy. When tn case was won
Handy. a mar much larger than Heney, net the young attorney. backed him
up against a wall. drew Heneys gun from tits holster and started to max good
the threat Eeney, lighting desperately, managed to turns the revolver against
Handy and to shoot him dead. Heney. at his own request ven through =
preliminary examination and "a discharged subsequently the gran 7ury,
during Heneys absence in another county, heard the evidence of a dozen or
more eye-witnesses and refused to indict
Mrs Handy died Tx months aferward, leaving 1--WE children. The eldest:
a boy was brought 10 b " Dr. Handys sister, a woman wo had something OF
her brothers temper and persistence, and h has always denounced Heney
rs a murderer. s. -
something OF his fathers mighty courag was in San Francisco running an
automobile for a city department Abe Ruef whom Heney was representing,
81 van yu to go down Ito Arizona no get mat heney nnoicH UIl ~
the murder OF you father, said Ruef; I'll send you down there. we Will take
cared IF you and prepare the way A a matter OF 1a. var naI 1ra.s sn
assistant city and county attorney, who had been appointed to office through
Ruefs influence. hd alreadys spent weeks in Arizona seeing what ouad b
zone to procure the indictment Of Heney. Since n bal Is gwen m Q
murder charge, this Indictment would nave put Heney out Of The way for
months At this time the supervisors had not yet confessed, Ruefw was
facing only the French restaurant extorton charges.
Handy heard him through and asked for line 20 CONSIDER.
"And he same day a v oce over the telephone said to Heney, I m M
sol of Dr. Handy If Arizona, whom you may remember. I wan to SCI o.
N particular business
'when, in the vest the on of a man whom o have killed sends word
that he wants 10 see you. it is a time for shifting the gun. Heney did
shift 1T. b ut he met Handy alone. And the young mar. sitting down peacea-
bly,, told quite simply the story of his offer from Ruef
!" I thank YOU said Heney when he had done But why do you tell this
to meg
kill you-that I was 10 man unless I did. But after grew up I went down
to Arizona I talked with old friends Of my father and old friends Of
And 1 concluded not only that vol were justified, u that l owe graft
tude for what you did for m mother I said then that If evers aw a
chance to help you out l would do 1t. Here where I make good. Shall l
go down to Arizona and find what they ire doing?
"Heney thanked him, but declined to accept such a sacrifice. Later when
derr,y young Handy gave a statement to the Call, in which he repeated what
he said to Heney. So that lin failed = 1'%