The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-06-19
CALHOUN FATE
IN HANDS Of JURY
CONTINUED from rage oneJ

August %, 1908. There was an inter.
ruption of several days subsequent to
November 10, when Francis j. Heney
was shot down in the courtroom by an
eX-convict, who subsequently commit
ted suicide in the county Jail, and three
volunteer prosecutors took up the case.
which ended on December 10. 1908.
when a jury returned verdict OF
guilty On December %. Ruef was
sentenced TO fourteen years i'm San
Quentin penitentiary and since then
has been confined in the county Jail.
awaiting action on an appeal to a high
err court.
/ The prosecution during The several
trolley trials, has attempted to. prove
. that Calhoun on the day following
the final passage of his companys troll
/ ley permit sent from New York to the
/ Mint i'm this city, 100000. which he
previously authorized the mint officials
/ to pay to TREY L. Ford. The money,
as is admitted, was withdrawn in three
iinstallments by Ford, who presented
orders signed by Calhoun. it was al
legged by the prosecution that within
few days after each of lFords visits
/ to the mint, he received a call from
Ruef. Following this theory James
l.. Gallagher, chairman of the super
yisors, testified that Ruef had paid him
| over $4,000 in July and an equal
amount in the following month. Gal
| lagher declared that he had retained
SIS, 900 for himself, had paid SIC, 700 to
Andrew NJ. Wilson, one of his lieu
tenants, and had given $4,000 to each of
the other supervisors 1t was affirmed
by the prosecution that Ruef and
Schmitz divided the balance of the fund
amounting to about $4,000.
The specific Indictment upon which
| Calhoun was tried was the offer of
| bride of $4,000 to Supervisor Fred P.
! Nicholas, to influence his action upon
the trolley permit. Nicholas, called
as the first witness, admitted accept
ance of the money for that purpose.
Since the trial commenced, a great
number of new issues more or less i'm
portant, have been presented for the
jury's consideration.
In March, when the trial was nearly
two months old, warrants were issued
for the arrest of several men charged
with stealing documents from the office
/ of William j. Burns, special agent of
the District Attorneys Office The
list of defendants, headed by NJ. NJ.
Abbott and Luther c. Brown, includ-
ed Rex Hamlin, secretary to Burns
and three other of Burns assistants
who confessed that they had given
private reports, letters and kilograms
to John H. Helas and the agents of the
| United Railroads.
On Saturday and Sunday, March %
and 81, the offices of Abbott, Brown
Calhoun and Mulaly were raided by
the police upon a search warrant Sc
cured by Burns, who protested to have
information that the men named were
in possession of his stolen papers.
Safes and desks were forcibly opened in
the presence of protesting attorneys
: and officials and documents to the num-
Der of 1000 were seized and delivered
into the custody of the police judge who
granted the warrant. Before the raid
ers had completed their task, attorneys
for the United Railroads secured and
served an injunction forbidding further
search.
Another order was secured to forbid
the police judge opening the sealed
packages, and after days of argument,
Superior Judge f. J. Murasky took I'M
der advisement an application for an
order adjudging Assistant District Al
torney f. j. Heney and two detectives,
who participated in the raids, guilty
of contempt of court.
No end of complication has been
caused through the activity of private
detectives, several Of whom are admit
ted to have been privately in the EN-
ploy Of one side while secretly furnish
ing information to the other.
A fortnight was added to the length
of the proceedings by the testimony Of
John II. Helas, once a detective il
the employ of the United Railroads
who was later secretly added to the
force of Burns to obtain evidence Of
alleged illegal activity on the part o.
United Railroad agents.
Helas testified that he had paid Plat
and other Burns men to secure papers
and had turned them over to Abbott
Prior to his appearance as a witness
, he charged several attempts were mad,
to prevent his testifying for the pro
, secution. Another Burns agent pro
, duced in court sums aggregating $3.50
which he alleged had been paid him b.
Luther c. Brown to betray secrets o
the district attorneys Office, One o
the witnesses called during the tria
was Rudolph Spreckels, president o
the First National bank, who instituted
J the graft prosecution by undertaking
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