The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-05-22
ONE OF CALHOUN'S ATTORNEYS
DECLARES DETECTIVE is "LY-
ING LIKE A DOG"
FIGHT NARROWLY AvERTED
Assertion That Moore Had Coneratu-
lated Him on His Work in Following
Burns Causes Lawyer to Denounce
Witness as Liar-Helms Dares
Moore to Make Good His Charge.

| San Francisco, May 2t.--Adjourn-
ment of court tonight ended the most
important week in The long drawn out
trial of Patrick Calhoun, president of
the United Railroads, hoW well into the
fifth month of duration. Judge and
jury, attorneys and principals, indi
Gated their relief at temporary escape
from the strain of the past few days.
when every step forward has been
characterized by skirlnshes, legal and
personal, that hourly increase in bit
terness. The attorneys on both sides
were worked thin edged, while Ru
dolph Spreckels,~ millionaire banker,
who financed the prosecution, and John
Helms, alternated on the witness stand
today, and it was evident from the
intense interest displayed by rival
counsel, that a crisis in the case had
been reached, but not passed. Inter-
est was sustained until late hour in
the afternoon, when Assistant District
Attorney Heney, ignoring two restrain
ing orders issued by a court of similar
jurisdiction, announced that he would
ask Judge LaWlor's permission to
open sealed packages seized in the
Abbott and alleged to contain docu-
ments stolen from the office of Will
liam J. Burns, head of the prosecu-
tion's corps of special detectives e.
Argument Deftsrred.
Arguments upon this issue were de-
ferred until Monday, when the prose-
cution, according to announcement
Wi nt ~ ~ NJ
the charges made by Detective Helms
against Abbott. under whose direction,
he claims to have operated One of
the lines of probable injury was indi-
Gated today when Helms, after testify
ing that he knew Luther Brown, for
mer partner of Earl Rogers, said:
"Abbott and Brown met me at the
steamer landing on the day / left the
city, after quitting the service of the
United Railroads. Abbott asked me
what | knew about the dynamitlng"
What dynamitng?" inquired Mr..
Heney.
THE dynamiting of Gallagher's
home said the witness, referring to
the blowing up in Oakland last spring
of the home of former Supervisor
James L. Gallagher
THE defense objected to this line of
inquiry and it was not pursued further.
Dramatic outburst.
1t was While Helms was on the stand
that the most dramatic outburst Of
the day occurred. Helms charged Alb
bott once had expressed to him a wish
that someone would shoot Heney,"
and that Stanley Moore had congratu-
lated him on his performance in fol-
lowing Burns.
Usually deliberate in his manner,
Stanley Moore arose in his place at
the counsel table and in a voice trem-
bling with passion, told Helms that
he was lying like a dog and perjur-
ing himself
The face of the witness paled at the
insult and he stepped in front Of Judge
LaWlor with his arm extended in a
threatening gesture as he defied the
young attorney to make good his
charge.
Charles w. Cobb, law partner of
Mr. Heney who was credited with a |
payment of $4,000 by Rudolph |
Spreckels for services in the prosecu-
ton, was the third witness of the day.
Mr. Heney's purpose, it was evident
from the questions and replies, was to
support his claims that he had en-
gagged in the work of the prosecution
without compensation and at great
personal sacrifice.
King Objects.
The inquiry had not proceeded far
when Alexander King of Georgia OBJ
jected on the ground that it served
no purpose save the laudation of the
interrogation. The court permitted Mr..
Heney to continue, however, and Mr. I
Cobb said he knew that his associate
had thrown up his representation of
the government in the Hyde Benson
and fraud cases and the Binger Herr
mann case, and that he had refused
President Roosevelt's offer to direct
The prosecution of Senator Borah of
Idaho. Mr.. Cobb affirmed that Mr..
Heney had lost his law practice since
on his duties as municipal
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