Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-29
DAY AN EXCITING ONE
Officers Continue Raids of
United Railroads
Headquarters
IGNORE COURT ORDER
Other Arrests Made and
More Expected - En-
tire City Aroused
IBy Associated Press. ]

~ 10y ASSottdteu iitSS'l
CY AN FRANCISCO, March 2S--Fol-
~ lowing the startling develop
~ ments yesterday in the bribery
graft cases, when five men, including
the private secretary of William j..
Burns and four officials of the United
Railroads, were arrested in connection
with the alleged purloining and copy
ing of documents from the offices of
Burhs and the district attorney and
the legal offices of the United Rail-
roads forcibly entered the private
safes of Patrick Calhoun and Thorn
wall Mullaly, his assistant, were
drilled open today and their contents
carefully examined
The forcing of the safes was con-
tinuation of the search last night,
when agents of the district attorney
made a dramatic raid of the offices of
the president of the United Railroads
and followed Calhoun's refusal today
to open them.
The examination OF the papers in the
safes was barren of results, according
to the searchers.
Injunction ignored
Just as the search was almost fin
ished, Stanley Moore, of counsel for
Calhoun, appeared with restraining
order, signed by Superior Judge Mu-
raskey enjoining the agents of Burns
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ceeding with their work.
~ Acting upon instructions from AS
sistant. District Attorney Hanley the
men refused to recognize the order or
the court, and continued their search.
Another development of the day was
the arrest of Frank ]. Murphy. asso-
ciate counsel for Abraham Ruef during
tried and acquitted of the charge of
attempting to bribe prospective
juror on the Ruef panel. Murphy was
taken into custody on warrant
charging him with receiving stolen
property. He was Immediately re-
leased upon $2500 bail. 1t is alleged
that Murphy received some of the re-
ports and data said to have been
stolen from Detective Burns office.
Scene Most Dramatic
The scene in the legal offices in the
Balboa building where the safes are
kept was dramatic in the extreme.
The rooms of the suite, which have
been guarded by the police since the
search warrant was presented last
night, were disarranged and clotted
with mud and dirt where dozens of
policemen, detectives and newspaper
men have crowded about since the
search began.
Detectives SCHNEIDER and Russell of
the Burns force and Police Sergeant
Mulcahey handled the papers. bending
over the doors of the safes. while
close beside them stood Patrick Cal
houn A. A. Moore, counsel for CAL
houn in the bribery trial now going
on, and a half dozen other attorneys
of the railroad staff. On every piece
of furniture in the room perched de-
tectives and newspaper men, all cram
ing their necks to see over the heads
of those at the safe and to get a
glimpse of the papers
Except for the steady stream of
protests and objections to the exami-
nation of documents which he said
were of a purely personal and private
nature. kept up by Calhoun in quiet,
unexcited tone, and the biting COM
ments offered by Moore at intervals,
the work was done quietly, but with
thoroughness that allowed the ma
ture of no document to escape the eye
of the detectives.
CaIhoun's Statement
Mr.. Calhoun gave out the following
statement to members of the press
tonight:
"You have been. gentlemen, wit
nesses of one of the most significant
outrages ever committed on the Ameri-
can continent. Under our constitution,
and as a part of the fundamental basis
cf American liberty, every man is pro-
tected against the unlawful search
and seizure of his papers:
Yesterday afternoon was a legal
holiday. l was absent from the city.
William j. Burns took this opportu
nifty, by swearing out bogus COM
plant. to seize upon the offices of the
United Railroads and make a search
n it's papers and records. Sent along
with the police officer was man
named SCHNEIDER, who has been proved
ir court to have circulated a bogus pe-
tition under my name among others,
which he sought to have signed under
the representation that he was friendly
to me.
1.-THE evident purpose of this petit
ton, presented to a number of citi-
zens OF San Francisco who were likely
10 be called for jury duty. was toI
prejudice me before the public and
disqualify jurors
"The other man was a Burns agent
named Russell. 1t was these two men
who searched among the papers of the
United Railroads, among my private
papers and among those of Mr.. Abbott
and Mr.. Mullaly."
Calling attention to the fact that hel
protested a number of times against
SCHNEIDER and Russell looking through
papers which from their headings bore
evidence that they could never haveI
been in possession of Burns, and that
one OF the searchers replied that they
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