The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-17
Makes Closing Speech in CAL
h0un Case.
Rush for Seats Almost Causes
a Riot.
MIR. MOORE FINISHES.
Closes His Long Address by
Attacking Detectives.
District Attorney Works Him
self Into Frenzy.

San Francisco, Cal. June 17.-Attor-
ney Moore concluded his remarks in
the Calhoun case at 1O:40 a. m. There
was slight delay before Assistant
District Attorney Francis J. Heney be-
gan his closing argument for the prose-
cution.
Not all the diplomacy of a. score of
police officials sufficed to prevent an
unprecedented crush in Carpenters
Hall today, when the final argument in
behalf of Patrick Calhoun was closed
and Assistant District Attorney f. J.
Heney faced the jury to review the
case that has taken over five months to
try.
An hour before the doors of the court
room were opened a crowd stood in
Fulton street Women, many of them
unattended by escorts, made up half of
the throng and two mounted patrol
men 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.
When the bailiff raped for order and
A. A. Moore advanced to the jury box
for the last installment Of his long
address, even the space reserved for
counsel and press was tightly packed
with privileged spectators.
The speaker declared his intention to
demonstrate that neither the president
of the United Railways nor any of his
attorneys or agents had in any man
ner INSTRUCTED the course of justice.
OF John H. Helms, the detective at one
time i'll the employ of the defense and
prosecution he said:
Helms, by his own statement, went
to the wilds of northern California to
put up trap for brother Mason at
the behest of his imported chief, w. J.
Burns. 1t was brutal perfdy, one of
the inhuman things that appear in this
record
Mr.. Moore defended the process
whereby agents of the defense send
copies of report on jurors. He de-
nounced William J. Burns for inaugur-
ating 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, they
men who had preconceived opinions
hostile to this defendant.
eff the miserable wretches who pro-
cured these jury reports had copies
Calhoun to be blamed if he took any
means to protect himself"
! In closing Mr.. Moore said:
Every man is master of his owr
| soul No faint can come except by
his own act. But faint may come to
his honor by aploquy. through the pain
and degradation of punishment for an
Uncommitted crime, worse than any
death a man can die.
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.
Heney Begins.
Mr.. Heneys address which was COM
menced within 10 minutes had scarce-
ly started when his voice was raised to
a pitch that carried his words to the
street through the open windows. The
vigor that has characterized many of
his less important battles during the
trial was applied in delivery of his
opening words; his face grew scarlet
with the vehemence of his utteranee
and his arms swung forcibly in the
gestures that usually he employs.