Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-17
FOR
CALHOUN'S JURY
EXPOSE SECRETS
DETECTlVESARE SUBSTITUTED
TALESMEN
METHODS OF PROSECUTION SUB
JEcT OF CLASH
Former United Railroads Officers,
Later Hired by Burns, Question
Jurors Before Summons
Is Issued

q AN FRANCISCO, March 16.-With
~ detectives substituted for pros
~ pective jurors and subjected to
questionings, the opposing attorneys In
the trial of Patrick Calhoun engaged
today in a verbal duel that extended
over a period of four hours. during
which time the methods of approach
ing veniremen i'll the case was more
thoroughly exploited than on any pre-
vious occasion in the history OF the
graft prosecutions.
Especial interest attached to the dis
closure that Nicholas Korngold,s for
merly employed by detective bureau
that rendered services for the united
Railroads, had more recently been at
tached to the staff of w. j. Burns,
head of the bureau of special agents
associated with the prosecution.
Several times during the afternoon
the exchanges between Assistant DIS
trict Attorney Heney and STANLEY
Moore of the defense became somewhat
heated in character and upon occasion
Mr.. Heney charged that Mr.. Moore had
n1isrepresented some matter to the
court.
But with half dozen ,talesmen ex-
amined during the day there was no
addition to the jurors accepted to try
the case.
er, was made the medium for introduce
ton of the detectives.
Challenged by Heney
He was challenged by the prosecu-
ton after he had professed his lnabll-
ity to remember various opinions TO
which he was alleged to have given eX-
preston, and Mr.. Heney finally intro
duced as a witness Ray c. SCHNEIDER,
detective in the employ of the prosecu-
ton, who testified that he had sounded
the talesman as to his views in June,
1907.
on this occasion, according to the
witness. Duchien expressed a belief
that the prosecution was going too far,
that ii was hurting business and that
Mr. Calhoun was held up
SCHNEIDER declared that Duchien had
stated that if he were ever called as a
juror he would never vote to convict
the defendant.
Under cross-examination by Stanley
Moore, SCHNEIDER said he was employed
by Mr.. Burns to investigate the atti-
tude of prospective jurors, and that ne
had called upon hundreds of citizens,
endeavoring to gain their confidence on
one pretext or another.
Moore Denies Charges
Mr.. Heney introduced as a witness
Nicholas Korngold. With Stanley
Moore denying every assertion, Mr.. He
ney declared that Korngold had been
employed by a detective bureau which
the United Railroads had retained; that
he had approached the talesman under
examination, and that he had reported
to w. H. Abbott, counsel for the United
Railroads, and subsequently had been
employed directly by Abbott. ,
Korngold testified he had approached
Duchien under the disguise of a maya
zine writer, and that Duchien had eX-
pressed sentiments similar to those pre-
viously described by SCHNEIDER.
Korngold was subjected to severe
cross-eXamination by the defense, dur
ing which it developed that he had kept
duplicates of the reports he returned
to the detective bureau and was still
preserving such information tor his own
use.
Before Judge Lawlor finally termin-
ated the proceedings of the day by al
lowing the challenge against Duehlen.
Korngold was permitted to testify that
few days ago, while investigating a
talesman, he had seen the latter in con-
versation with a man known as Hayes,
who is under indictment on charge
of having interfered with the investi-
cation of a dyhamitine outrage. The
witness declared Hayes was in the en-
ploy of the the United Railroads as
detective