Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-17
CALHOUN CASE
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Will BE UIVrN
TO JURY TODAY
COUNSEL FOR RAILWAY MAG
NATE NEARS END OF TALK
PROMISES TO SUBMIT SUIT TO
JURORS THIS MORNING
Interest Awakens as Last Hours of
Trial of President of United Rail-
roads for Bribery App
proaches End
CIV Assoelated Press.l

men ana MOlll6ll III eltiAAAAAhea N'l-N'
wrangling for standing room in the
courtroom, Patrick Calhoun's explana-
ton of the bribery indictment against
him was practically submitted to the
Jury tonight, when A. A. Moore, senior
counsel for the president of the united
Railroads, promised to submit his case
during the first hour of tomorrow
session.
AS the five months trial approaches
its climax, dormant public interest is
awakening to the point of eager demon
stration, and the behavior of the puollc
at Carpenters hall today sorely taxed
The patience of the dozen policemen
stationed at the entrance.
A still greater crush is looked for to-
morrow when Mr.. Moore concludes his
address and the last of the arguments
that have now occupied three full days
is begun by Assistant District Attorney
Heney
A. Moore's argument, which al
ready has lasted eight hours, was pro-
nounced tonight by adherents OF ooth
sides a mastery review of the case
His power of denunciation, his sarcasm
and his flights into classical realms
evoked frequent murmurs of apprecla-
tion or laughter from the audience. and
while the speaker openly confessed the
WEAKNESS his hearers felt at the close
of the long day the attendance had not
diminished when the hour of adjourn
ment arrived.
CaIhoun's Family Present
Patrick Calhoun, whose wife. daugh-
ters and sons were present throughout
Mr.. Moore's address, relaxed his solemn
department of the last few weeks and
laughed openly at some of the speak
er's metaphors. His friends business
associates, and the friends of his at
torneys pressed him into the fore
ground but throughout the day he
never ceased to observe the jurors and
take full note of the scene in the
crowded sections behind him.
Suppose, for the sake of argument,
that this money was shown to have
been paid by TREY L. Ford to Abraham
Ruef." said Mr.. Moore, when he made
one of his sudden shifts of base. could
anyone here called as witness say that
this payment was anything more than
a surety for peace? Ruef was known
to be the omnipotent power, not only
controlling the supervisors but also in
connection with the entire labor ele-
ment of the city
However. this is all mere Specula-
ton There is no evidence here that
Ruef ever receivd a dollar from Ford
for any purpose. Should we then be
forced to show what disposition was
made of any sum entering into the
transactions of the United Railroads?
= We are not here to account TO Mr..
Heney or anyone else how we legiti-
mately expend our money.
Mr.. Moore referred to the immunity
granted the supervisor witnesses as "a
strange and sad story. When we look
for a reason explaining the strange
artifeiality of this transaction" he con-
tinued. at seems that these men were
taken into the fold of Spreckels-under
the outstretched wings of the graft
osecution-whatever that grisly hor-
ror may be-"
Cards Necessary for Admission
Hundreds of persons clamored in vain
for admission to the courtroom where
A. A. Moore resumed his final argu-
ment in behalf of Calhoun. Cards of
admission, distributed by the attor-
neys and attaches of the court, We're
practically essential to entrance, and
those who failed to gain recognition
were obliged to linger expectant at a
prescribed distance from the doorway,
with its blue coated wardens.
Women, many of them of the fash
ionable set which numbers among its
members the wife and daughters of
the wealthy defendant, made UP fully
half of Mr.. Moore's audience. Seats
were added as those occupied were
filled, but no person was permitted to
stand and the spacious gallery, by
order of Judge William P. Lawlor, re-
manned as empty as during the tedious
days of jury examination.
Inside the rail, in addition to attor-
neys and newspaper men, We're the
privileged and the favored-distin-
guished lawyers and the intimate
friends of the principals-presse close
~ about the semicircle inclosing prose-
cution and defense.
Mr.. Moore began by replying to the
prosecutions challenge for a reason
why TREY L. Ford was not called as
a witness by the defense to clear his
chief.
Il invite your attention" said Mr..
Moore Ito the fact that the prosecu-
ton could have called General Ford as
they did Thornwell Mutually and Will
lam NJ Abbott, each of whom had the
same hateful indictments hanging over
them And if Ford had refused to tes-
tify on statutory grounds they could
have dismissed the indictments and
forced him to speak.
WAS not their failure to do this,
and to call Abraham Ruef, suggested
by their knowledge that if Ruef took
the stand and told the truth he would
eXonerate Ford and Calhoun?
with Ruef, who was for long time
in the camp of the prosecution, with
the supervisors and the rest of it, they
would have had both ends and the
middle"
Referring to the activities of "spies
and gum shoe men of whom there have
been 160," Mr. Moore said:
think of Mr.. Spreckels, supported
by a sturdy myrmidon, airing his eye
at hole in a transom. Think of all
the gimlet holes bored in walls and
the cracks in doors and peeking above
and under Yet no man, either
through crack in door or over tram
sim, saw Calhoun doing anything UNI
lawful that has been reported here"
Mr. Moore then took up the chief
points in the case of the prosecution,
denying at the outset that any witness
In the case laid made direct declaration
of guilt against the defendant
Denounces Gallagher
Mr.. Moore was particularly severe in
his denunciation of James L. Gallagher,
head of the supervisors.
1.-THE top of his head does not emerge
from the pit of corruption he has
digged for himself. If you knew a
man who had added perfidy to perjury,
had then turned informer and sworn
his cOnfederates into jail would you
return dog to the pound on his
testimony? or would you deprive a
man of his liberty and honor on the
same authority"
Mr.. Moore, declaring that hundreds
of innocent lives were taken in the