The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1909-06-18
Tehemently Announ-
ces Chief Counsellor
United .RaiZways
DRAMATIC SCENE
Erratic Prosecution in Presence of
Large COncourse, Recites History of
Political Bossism From Tweed TO
Ruef.-Case May Go to the Jury
Some Time Tonight.
e AN FRANCISCO. June Il

AN hANOISCO, June IT,
Francis J. Heney, famous
throughout the country as a
prosecutor before he came to this
city four years ago, laid down his
half-completed argument in the
case of Patrick Calhoun tonight,
after relating his ambition to be-
come district attorney of the new
administration in San Francisco.
and after outlining, with all the
vehemence of his fiery disposition,
the theory of the prosecution that
tends to connect the president of
the United Railroads with the
charge of bribery that has served
as the basis of five-months' trial
MIR. Heney expects to conclude nv
tomorrow afternoon at the hour ar
adjournment, and it is hoped that
Judge VIM. P. Lawler, after submis-
sion or the argument, will elect to
give his instructions which will. II ia
believed, require about three hours to
oellVer and give the case to the jury
IN night session. Otherwise as is
admitted, the instructions will be de-
ferred until Saturday morning.
Mr.. Heney exploited the history of
several political bosses with whose
records he manifested an acauaint-
ance.
Go down the line" said the speak
er. Remember Boss Tweed of New
York, Butler of Missouri, Blind Chris
Buckley, Sam Bainey and Phil Grim
Minis of San Francisco. Can you re-
call whether they divided with their
subordinates? Do you suppose they
prospered without the cooperation Of
the men they put in Officer"
He attempted to demonstrate to the
jury that the prosecution had no
course open save to grant immunity
to the supervisors who gave the most
direct testimony against the defend
ant, and he related in every detail the
history of Abraham Ruef Eugene e.
Schmitz and the other men charged
with completely in the briberies of the
labor union administration. One of
the several dramatic features of the
day was when Mr.. Heney, reaching
discussion of the activities of William
F. Abbott of the legal force of the
United Railroads, walked to a point
opposite Mr.. Calhoun and, shaking his
finger at the subject of his discourse,
said:
Il am talking about William M Abb
bott, than whom no milder villain ere
cut throat or scuttled a ship. In
appearance a school superintendent,
he is yet one of the men who were
responsible for this record of black
iniquity."
Mr.. Heney spoke in a courtroom
packed to the doors and crowded be-
yond the doors into the lobby of Car
penters' hall to the sidewalk Judge
Frank H. Dunno before whom several
of the graft defendants have been
tried, shared the bench with Judge
LaWler and the large audience in
cluded several prominent clergymen.
On the subject of bossism, Mr..
Heney said:
What a spectacle is this for Amer
ican citizens. The history of the
country shows that the menace to our
existence as republic lies in our
great cities where we foster the
bosses. Bosses are not created-they
merely take advantage of conditions.
They are supported by two classes:
they were at the time of the second
election of Eugene E. Schmitz. One
holds forth in the tenderloin, where
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