The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-06-19
DIR. COFFEY IS NAMED FOR
MISCONDUCT BEFORE JURY
United Railroads Surgeon Demands Apology
For Outrage in Calhoun Trial
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sonably be drawn thereform. And so.
if your reason says to you, why, a gen.
tleman of the reputation of General
Ford would be only too glad to come
on the witness stand and clear up any
thing that there may be here that arises
as an Inference from this circumstan-
tial evidence, and if he does not come 1t
is because he can't clear 1t up; IL your
reason says that that is the logical and
natural inference to draw from his fall
ure to be put upon the stand and tes-
tify to you on that subject. then you
have the right to draw it. And not only
have you the right to draw 1t, but the
law says that that inference so drawn
is evidence And when they say TO you
that you can not convict man except
on the evidence in the case, that IS
part of the evidence to which the law
refers-that inference.
sILENCEs STANLEY MOORE
In effectively silencing the interrupt
tions of Stanley Moore by the accusa-
ton that the younger attorney had
carried from the office of Patrick Cal
houn in the Balboa building papers
stolen from the ONCE of William j.
Burns, Assistant District Attorney
Heney last evening brought out quick
ly and forcefully one of the strongest
points to show the guilty conscience of
the defendant, Patrick Calhoun Save
for minor discussion with counsel for
the defense and parting sally with
j. J. Barrett over his fight for the office
of district attorney, Heney confined
himself closely to his argument and the
facts of the case. The nub of his ex-
position of the case against the trolley
magnate came during the evening ses-.
sion. when he produced two large
graphic charts, showing in red and
black figures by comparison, the meth
DDS of business followed by the United
Railroads in handling the legitimate
sums of money secured from the United
States mint and the mysterious hand
ling of the 100000 in currency taken
from the mint and alleged by the prose-
cution to have been given Ruef and the
supervisors as the bribe to effect the
passage of the overhead trolley matter.
REVIEWS ACTOR sCHMTTZ
He first reviewed the act of former
Mayor Schmitz in granting after the
fire the temporary trolley permit as
subtle act to get the people accus-
toned to the trolleys.
"Schmitz knew human nature" said
Heney. and. when the cars would be
running he knew that it was human
nature for the people to want them to
continue. Most OF the people gave way
then, content to let the trolleys stand.
But not all the people did. Rudolph
SpreckeIs has been fighting for three
years and has put up s13S,00o because
he would not be content. I don't know
that Calhoun ever knew there was
man like Rudolph Spreckels in the
world who would fight for principle.
Rudolph Spreckels is making the same
kind of a fight that Washington made,
and is denounced just as Washington
was denounced. But Spreckels in time
will come to be recognized as the man
who was willing to- spend what Is
called a fortune for the purpose OF en-
forcing the law equally against the
Calhouns as against the Mike Cof-
feys."
fHeney also paid tribute to James
D. Phelan as a man who inherited his
money, but was one of the few worthy
to have control of what he inherited
He sketched the origin of the graft
prosecution, saying that In its incipi-
ency the plan was to destroy the
crooked administration of Ruef. He
told how Spreckels had met him in
Fillmore street and had urged him to
go In to the prosecution, and of his
own reluctance.
Then Heney turned suddenly to the
question OF the efforts of Abbott and
others to bride the employees of Special
Agent William ]. Burns.
.They can't even make Burns out as
bad as they admit Abbott was" Heney
pointed out.
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