Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-06-18
HENEY EXPLOITS
HOW BOSSES AID
THEIR HENCHMEN
PROSECUTOR ABOUT THROUGH
IN CALHOUN TRIAL
SHOWS AMBITION TO BECOME
DISTRICT ATTORNEY
Declares State Had No Alternative but
to Grant Immunity to Super
visors Who Gave Most
Direct Testimony
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! been heaped on him and his colleagues
| by the attorneys for the defense during
| the five long months, and dramatically
gave notice that never again would he
| stand such villifcation from any man
| in a courtroom.
Not all the diplomacy of score OF
police officials sufficed to prevent an
unprecedented crush in Carpenters
hall today when the final argument in
behalf of Calhoun was closed and At
torney Heney faced the jury to review
the case that has taken over five
months to try.
Street Is Crowded
An hour before the doors of the
courtroom were opened a crowd of 800
persons stood in Fulton street. Women,
many of them unattended by escorts,
made up half of the throng and two
| mounted patrolmen, assisting a dozen
| policemen on the sidewalk, were
obliged to clear way to the hall time
after time by squirting their horses
into the groups on either side of the
entrance. From Berkeley, across the
bay, came a delegation of 100 women,
and these, with others, were formed in
long line, while a majority of the
men were driven across the street
Half an hour before A. A. Moore re-
| sumed the argument began last Tues
| day afternoon the last available seat
| in the courtroom was occupied. When
the bailiff raped for order and Mr..
Moore advanced to the jury box for the
last installment of his long address
the space reserved for counsel and
press was so tightly packed with priv
LEGGED spectators that it was almost
impossible to leave or enter the rail-
enclosed arena.
'I deplore, as you must" said Mr..
Moore in the course of his remarks,
that San Francisco has been put back
and kept back indefinitely by warning
factions, whether they war for revenge
only or purely for political purposes"
The speaker then declared his inten-
ton to demonstrate that neither the
president of the United Railroads nor
any of his attorneys or agents had in
any manner INSTRUCTED the course OF
justice,
Scores Detective Helms
OF John H. Helms, the detective, at
one time in the employ of the defense
and prosecution, he said: Helms by
! his own statement went to the wilds of
! Northern California to put a trap for
brother Mason at the behest of his
imported chief, w. ]. Burns. 1t was
brutal perfidy one of the hard inhuman
things that appear in this record"
Mr.. Moore defended the process
whereby attorneys of the defense Sc
cured copies of reports on jurors. He
denounced William ]. Burns for estab-
fishing what he termed a spy system
on men called to the high offices of
| the jury"
"If this thing had been feasible from
the standpoint of the prosecution" he
said, they would have stock this
jury of twelve men who had precon-
ceived opinions hostile to this defen-
dant. Is it to be wondered at that we
did not submit to jurors selected by
this man Burns, imported for a devilish
purpose, even though we were told
that the prosecution vas working for
| the honor and glory of God.
IF the miserable wretches who pro-
| cured these jury reports had copies of
their product for sale is Patrick Cal
houn to be blamed if he took any
means to protect himself?"
Mr.. Moores closing words were as
| follows:
"In moment more / shall leave with
you the honor of Patrick Calhoun.
Every man is master of his own
soul % faint can come except by his
own act. But faint may come to his
honor by obloquy, through the pain and
degradation of punishment for an I'M
committed crime worse than any death
a man can die.
Must Keep His Own Honor
Life is not ours to keep. Each one
of us knows that he nightly pitches his
tent a days march nearer his last
home. But his honor is his to keep
and life is nothing in comparison with
honor. A man lies down with the in
| Vulnerable caravan, but his honor goes
down to his children and their chill
dren.
1.-THE mother whose son is brought
home to her on his shield is comforted
in her sorrow by the knowledge that
his honor is unstained. The shipmas-
ter who sends away his crew in life
boats and stands on the slippery deck
until the seas engulf him goes down
with the knowledge that his honor and
the honor of his deed will ring for
ever.
so we want you to leave Patrick
Calhoun's honor unstained. This has
been long war. We must end it, and
we end it gladly. We leave with you
the honor of Patrick Calhoun, per-
| suaded that Justice will be done and
ulates the course of the universe and
watches the fall of the sparrow will
| give the victory to Patrick Calhoun
Mr.. Heney's address, which was
commenced within ten minutes, had
scarcely started when his voice was
~ a pitCH liidl NtiiIItu his WORDS
to the street through the open win
dows The vigor that has character
| lied many of his less important bat
ties during the trial was applied in de-
livery of his opening words; his face
grew scarlet with the Vehemence of
his utterance and his arms swung for
chilly in the gestures that usually he
employs.
Criticises Counsel
you know now how much force
there was in Mr.. Moore's offer to sub
nit this case to you without argu-
ment," said Mr.. Heney. HE came be-
fore you with well prepared address,
and he talked for a day and a half.
He has asked you to presume Patrick
Calhoun innocent He has asked you
to presume that every man, woman
and child in this community who has
raised hand i'm defense of justice are
scoundrels of the deepest dye. He has
asked you to presume that Spreckels,
Phelan and Heney are STEPPED in vii
lainy, but that Patrick Calhound is in
recent.
Isn't there enough here Of evidence