The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-06-20
t Instructs Jurors on Legal Points


ment, fidelity to duty, to honor and to
justice should not permit US to be
blinded by sophistry. that sophistry
winch is the willing paid prostitute OF
/ crime, and would invoke charity for the
! debaucher of civil morals and pubic
offices, while the debaucher is still en-
Joying the Illicit fruits of his crime
/ we are told by men of reputable stand
ing that Christ forgave the thief on the
cross, and we should do likewise; but
mark you, this thief was not only cruci-
!, ned and repentant, but naked when our
Savior forgave him.
DEBAUCHERY OF OFFICE
/ But this debaucher of our public
officials has not been crucifed and is
not repentant, but sits here defiant of
! your laws, committing more crimes to
break down the effectiveness of your
courts of justice as shown by this evil
dence.
We would not have been allowed to
go back under the rules of evidence
but for the fact that they claimed that
Nicholas had changed his testimony
because of the fact that Mike Coffey
had been indicted And when they
claimed he changed his testimony on
the Glass trial. having taken place
before Mike Coffey's indictment, and
the testimony in the first Ford trial.
which they claim was changed. and
which they claimed had taken place
AFTER Mike Coffey had been on the
stand, and they believed that Mike
Coffey was going to be indicted, and it
was the Big Stick of the prosecution
that was threatening Nicholas if he
didn't commit perjury, as the prosecu-
ton wanted it. that he too would be
indicted. that gave us the right. that
imputation of bad motive and of bad
influence on the part of the prosecu-
tion over him, and that only gave him
the right to bring out that testimony.
II they stood upon the bare fact that
he had once made a different statement
in the Glass case we would have been
shut out from showing the true state
of affairs. But they were not satisfied
with that Their evil minds carried
them on because they wanted to put
this slime of their insinuations upon
the prosecution, and we gave them all
the rope they wanted because l was
satisfied they would hang themselves
if we gave them enough. And they did.
1t is the irrationality of the criminal
mind; they always go too far in cover
ing up crime and in making counter
charges And so we were allowed TO
go back and show when Nicholas was
up at the Gladstone apartments. when
he could not have been prompted. when
he was answering all the questions
that were put to him, he said that
Gallagher had told him in advance of
voting upon the passage of the ordi-
nance to print, that there would be
$4,000 in it. That was March 16, on
Saturday, at the Gladstone
RUFF SENDS FOR WILSON
Now, what followed the making of
the Gladstone statement? On Sunday
morning Wilson was telephoned for by
Abe Ruef Frank Murphy had been
employed by Nicholas as his attorney
and Nicholas told him what they were
going to do and what they had done
And Frank Murphy. as it appears by
the record, was Ruefs attorney at the
trying Ruef. selecting a jury in the
extortion case. And Ruef sent for
Wilson and Gallagher to have them
confirm the statement as to whether
the statement that the supervisors had
made full confession was true. And
Ruef. relying on the fact that prac-
tically in all the Instances he did this
proposition through Gallagher, and that
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