Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-05-28
SAYS DETECTIVE
ASKED FOR COIN
WITNESS MAKES DISCLOSURE
IN CALHOUN TRIAL
RAILROAD EMPLoYE ACCUSED OF
SEEKING BRIDE
Character OF Prosecution Testimony
Indicates That the Case for the
State Is Drawing to a
Close

SAN FRANCISCO, May 27.-1ssues
disconnected but relating to important
incidents in the graft prosecution were
presented today for the consideration
of the patient jury in the case OF Pat
rick Calhoun, president of the United
Railroads.
Two packages sealed by order of a
superior Judge, and alleged by the pros
ecution to contain documents stolen
from the office of an agent of the dis
trict attorney, were opened by dreclloli
of Judge william P. Lawlor, and in
troduced in evidence, although the
character of the documents was not
made known.
Alonzo J. Monroe, a former district
attorney of Eureka, Humboldt county,
and now an attorney of that city, was
questioned as to his relations with John
H. Helms, a detective employed by the
United Railroads who recently ap-
peared in the trial as witness for the
prosecution. Munroe gave sensa-
tional turn to the proceedings in the
late afternoon by declaring that Helms.
through Henry Lamb, a rancher OF
Northern California, had invited an
offer of $4,000 to prevent him giving tes-
timony favorable to the prosecution.
The dynamiting of former Supervisor
James L. Gallagher's home in Oakland
was another subject exploited during
the day, and Joseph H. Handlon, claim
agent of the United Railroads, was
called as a witness to tell of the en-
ployment of Felix Paudeveris, a Greek.
who has been vainly sought by the
prosecution as an alleged accessory in
the crime for which John Claudianes
is serving life sentence.
Payment to PaudeVeris
Handlon said that he employed and
directed Paudeveris on his own re-
sponsibility, and that he had last seen
him on July IA, 1908, three months after
the dynamiting.
Paudeveris, he said, had come to him
with an explanation that he had been
on a vacation, and was insistent that
he be paid $240 due him. He succeeded
in getting $40, and then departed.
Handlon declared that he had never
since heard anything from his former
subordinate.
mony presented at today's session of
the trial encouraged a belief that the
case to be submitted by the state was
drawing to a close.
For the purpose of contradicting the
testimony of witnesses who have adj
vanced a theory that the explosion
which wrecked the home of former SUI
pervisor James L. Gallagher was not
unexpected, DR.. Guy Brown, an Oak
land dentist, and Thomas ]. Warner,
whose home adjoined the residence oc-
cupied by Gallagher in April, 1908, were
Intercepted at length by Assistant
District Attorney Francis j. Heney and
Stanley Moore of the defense.
Brown testified that six persons, in
Guiding Gallagher, two women, a man
and three children, together with the
witness, were actually in the house
when it was partially wrecked by the
explosion. Nearly all the inmates were
thrown down by the shock, he said.
Warner denied he had seen any mem
Der of the Gallagher household In the
yard before the explosion occurred, and
declared he had never told any person
anything to the contrary.
This, on the whole, was directly con-
Trajectory to the testimony given by
Luther Brown. who said his informa-
tion led him to believe that the ex-
plosion was arranged to create SYM
pathy for Gallagher
Mr.. Heney then undertook to lay a
foundation for the introduction of doc
uments alleged to have been distracted
from the office of w. J. Burns by agents
of the United Railroads.
William M. Abbott of the corpora