The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-06-16

legal STAFF were on the firing line IN
the verbal battle waged yesterday in
. Judge Lawlor's court in behalf Of the
defense King. The personal friend and
former law partner OF his client, held
the door from early morning until the
afternoon recess Moore finished out
/ he day. and is scheduled 10 renew
hostilitfes this morning
IN point OF direction and manner OF
summing I'D the case the two ad-
dresses were as dfssimilar as the eli
mates OF the frigid and torrid zones
King was comparatively dispessionate
and deliberate. He sought 10 build q
defense for his client within the record,
though handicapped IN the very ioun-
datiOn OF his argument by the absolute
lack OF testimony with which 20 refute
the charges sustained by the mass OF
prosecution evidence
MOORE BITTER IN ATTACKS
When Moore succeeded him the
already fetid atmosphere OF the crowd
81 courtroom became heavy with the
bitterness Of invective and vitupera-
ton II took Moore the greater part
OF his hour and 4 half 10 dispose OF
q preliminary attack upon individual
members OF TIE prosecution, and ne
had hardly begun his discussion OF the
dered for the day
The CAPACITY OF che courtroom was
taxed even more severely than on Mon
CAV and possibly 100 more spectators
were TANNED into seats in the poorly
ventilated hzlL outside a still larger
crowd sought 20 pass the police guard
at the doorway. and failing. waited all
DAY bout the building. District Attor-
ney Langdon spent most OF the day at
the prosecution counsel table with
Heney and O'Gara- and during por-
ton OF the morning session District
ATTORNEY DonOhue Of Alameda county
also occupied q seat at the table
new FACES BESIDE CALHOUN'S
several new faces appeared within
The raII on the defendants side OF the
courtroom. notable among them being
former Police Commissioner Harry
t-reswelI. Attorney William NJ Cannon
ana Rudolph HerOId. Mrs. Calhoun and
two OF her daughters were in I've cen
Ter q a ErOup OF society women oc-
cupying seats IN the front rows, while
two OF the defendants sons were
seated Immediately back OF his atSor-
neys
Moore did not content himself with
merely uncorkiug few ordinary walls
CT sarcasm when ne began his address
He turned loose a seething food that
left no member OF the prosecution IN
touched He ridiculed the evidence
heaued I'd against the defendant;
charged witnesses right and left with
perjury: pictured Heney as a "perse-
cutting prosecutor working for greed,
gain. glory and ambition; slapped
savsgely al District Attorney Lang
don Rudolph Spreckels and others;
called the prosecutions detectives
.-creatures"- referred 10 O'Gara as an
unworthy prosecutor: and character
lied mem bers Of the League Of Justice
in the courtroom as an organization
OF good but deIunded women per-
suaded 10 wear buttons showing their
sympathy for a persecution.
RECTTES DELAY IN TRIALS
Mr.. Calhoun was indicted in May,
1907 declared Moore That was
more than two years ago Dynasties
have been uprOoted. history has been
made. good men have finished their
lies work and died. and children have
been born and have learned 10 talk
since those indictments were returned
And during all the time since he was
indicted Mr. Calhoun has been striv-
ing for a trial
Think OF that, you men OF the jury.
Think OF it, Think what IL would
have meant 10 you and TO your wife
and children II you had been be-
Iesguered for two years while striving
for trial on a charge for which you
were indicted two years ago and for
z crime which was alleged 10 have
been committed stu another year be-
fore that
Time and again these causes have
been set for trial and every time the
defendant has answered Ready Once.
il December. 1907. il seemed that at
q st he was 70 get q trial A ca sc
- r-f~
attorneys were here. the court was
waiting on the bench-and then what?
REFERS TOE FEUDAL TIMES
II turned out that James L Cal
1aEher. whom / consider 10 be one
OF the active members OF the prose-
cution. was absent Either with the
connivance. or at least with the knowl-
edge and consent OF the chief prose-
cutor who works here for fame or
man was absent
The defendant. q nonresident. was
here. and counsel were here. and Yet
the trial must wait upon the pleasure
Of these prosecutors. who demanded de-
lay because this man Gala CHER was
on a pleasure trip in the east"
Moore turned 10 an oratorical de-
ssription OF the foundation OF the jury
system. quoting copiously from fiction
as weA as history. He described the
faults Of the feudaI system and as
serted that they had been unearthed
and brought down 10 the twentieth
century for use in the prosecution OF
lis client. only he doubted. he said. IL
they had Helmses and Otis and Korn-
colds and such gumshoe brigands" in
the DAYS OF the feudal lords.
CALHOUN DEMANDING RIGHTS
The Jury system is the Outgrowth
OF civilization continued Moore. 1T
is founded upon the theory that the
people are 10 be represented in the
trial OF an Individual upon charge OF
crime. and 70 better can the people be
represented than BY a jury, for the
1aRen who compose jury are drawn
IRON the body Of the people under the
broad just principle that the people
shau Judge the facts when man is
erarged with crime
Patrick Calhoun stands before you
now after all these years OF weary
waiting. after all these long months Of