The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-25
HENEY GOES INTO CAMP OF DEFENSE Prosecutor In Calhoun GGase Is M6fciIess In Court DYNAMITE CASE IS PR0BED Attorney Huey Questions Detective About an Explosion and Learns
 Great Deal of Importance
 in the Case.
DYNAMITE CASE IS PROBED

San Francisco, May 24-Francis J. He- ney, proseeptgn of Patrick Calhoun, pres ident of the United Railroads, on bribe- " charge, went into the camp of the de- fense for several of it's witnesses today
 It appeared that the state was ap- preaching the end of it's long roll of wit nesses, and hopes were expressed that an- other fortnight would end the trial, which entered today on it's twentieth week This afternoons session was devoted to the examination of Thomas B. Gibson, de- tective Tn the employ of the United Rail- roads; of George R. Francis, secretary of the company's legal department, and Of Luther Brown, a Los Angeles attor- ney active in behalf of the defense.
 MT. Heney asked Gibson to explain his part in the investigation of the dynamite explosion that wrecked the Oakland home of James L. Gallagher, one of the chief witnesses of the prosecution and imper- He'd the lives of Gallagher and seven other inmates of the house.
 MT. Heneys questions carried many charges that Gibson denied, but the wit ness admitted that he had been directed to look into the affair by Thornwell Null laley, assistant to MT. Calhoun. When asked what he discovered, Gibson said:
 q found that two men were arrested and held in Oakland for couple of weeks, and that one had bought ID pounds of dynamite. His name was Will helm, and l suppose he was working for William J. Burns.'
 What report of the matter did you make to William M Abbott?" asked MT. Heney.
 T told him I thought Burns and Will helm had a hand in it, and that the sx- plosion was brought about to create a feeling against MT. Calhoun" said the witness.
 Did you think Burns wanted to kill Gallagher?' asked the prosecutor. T did not" replied Gibson. q had reason to believe the people who lived in the house were all in the back yard by arrangement when the explosion occur red"
 MT. Heney asked Gibson if he had not attempted to interfere with Burns when the latter returned from the east and be- gan an investigation of the dynamiting The defense objected. and Mir Heney de- clareds an attempt was made to silence Gallagher by assassinating him. and that the agents of the United Railroads were instrumental in the effort to suppress evidence of crime.
 Stanley Moore of the defense charac- terized the charges as "as false as he'll" declaring that the dynamiting was stock issue of the prosecution to be lugged in against every defendant
 Secretary Francis in his testimony ad- mltted having received from John Helms. formerly connected with the United Rail- roads detective bureau, a filing cabinet and a quantity of documents which helms alleges were reports on jurors and other matter abstracted from Burns office He testified that he had received money from Abbott to pay Helms and other men en- ! gagged in similar work.
 Luther G. Brown declared that he had never arranged for Alexander Latham once a chauffeur for Abraham Ruef, to enter the employ of his CBrown's s) father in-law, and that he never knew of such employment
 This statement was regarded as an is sue, because Latham is now awaiting trial on a charge of perjury alleged to have been committed in the Ruef trial.
 Brown admitted to certain activities as detective for the United Railroads.