The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-06-18
Moore Finishes for Defense and
Heney Argues for Rest
of the Day
Famous Prosecutor Reaches
Zenith of Career in Mas
terly Talk
To Finish Concluding Address
Today and Instructions viii
Then Be Given
Verdict Possible Before Mid
night or at Latest by
Next Day
By W. RUSSELL COLE

- OlLl OF not Rulllt
III Tonight, possibly. the world
may know the verdict Of the
Il men sworn TO answer that question
in the case of Patrick Calhoun.
charged with offering a bribe to
supervisor.
Francis ], Heney already has
plunged far into the rebuttal argu-
ment that will bring to an end the
greatest OF all graft trials in local
history. For five hours yesterday the
rugged prosecutor stood before the
jury, rounding into logical sequence
the mass of evidence on which the
people of the state Of California will
ask for the criminal conviction of a
man of great wealth and high posi-
ton
Will Conclude Today
Heney undoubtedly viii conclude
his argument today The courts
charge to the jury Is expected inn
mediately that Heney brings his sum
ming up to an end. regardless OF the
hour OF the day. By late afternoon or
early evening the last appeal should
be finished, the last Instructions given
and the jury sent into its conference
room for the performance of that
duty toward which every incidert OF
the q long weeks of trial has tended
Logical. forceful, eloquent, fighting
with every energy of body. soul and
brain for the principle for which the
graft prosecution has been waged for
three years. Francis J. Heney yester-
day touched the zenith of his career
as prosecutor. No incident of all the
chain of fact and circumstance bind
/ ing about the defendant was too trivial
or elusive to escape his mental grasp;
no man so powerful or unassaflable as
to escape the singing lash of his de-
nunciation where deRunciatIon was de-
served.
Heney Great Builder
Into the great, and seemingly mex
tricabIe tumble of bald fact and minor
detail which forms the body OF proof
against Patrick Calhoun. Heney
plunged with the assurance Of absolute
familiarity. Here or there he selected
some bit of testimony. seemingly in
consequential in itself. dragged it out
to dovetail with like units torn from
some other part of the record. nodded
it into them with master skill and
threw the whole before the 5ury-a
point established; factor complste in
the structure of incrimination toward
which he constantly built
From the very bottom of It's founda-
tion Heney began the rearing of his
case. Back into bygone years of mu-
nicipal history he plunged at the out
set, picturing the growth of conditions
which eventually led to the reign OF
Ruef and Schmitz. The old bosses OF
San Francisco were marshaled in re-
view-blind Chris Buckley. sam Rainsy.
PhiIly Crimmins. Martin Kelly. and
with them Tweed of New York and
Butler of ST. Louis. 1t was the expose
of system; system that has sapped
Kthe strength of the big cities Heney
did not nnger long. however. over the
substructure of his argument. He
drew the picture with a few bold
strokes, and then il faded and in its
place was the vision of Ruef ana
schmitz surrounded by the members OF
the boodling board OF supervisors in
Sunday night caucus.
''Not Born Bad"
Those supervisors were not born bad
men. said Heney. but they fell under
I the temptation offered them by the
devil in human guise. And then be-
/ gan the rape of the city Jointly. as
he described the activities of the Doodle
board during the months before and
/ Immediately after the fire. the speaker
told of the plans being laid by Patrick
/ Calhoun to convert the street railways
I of San Francisco into a uniform over
head trolley system. and OF how the
disaster presented the opportunity for
which the chief of the United Rail-
roads had Ionged.
Heney explained the beginnings OF
the graft prosecutions. the reasons
which forced it into life. it's motives
from first to last and the bitter fight
! which has marked its progress. Ths