Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-04
COURT SENTENCES
CALHOUN LAWYERS
TO PRISON CELLS
Counsel in Bribery Case at San
Francisco May Go
to Jail
ACCUSATION CAUSES UPROAR
Refusal to Dismiss Indictments
Against United RyS. Presi- D..
dent Starts TumuIt
ACCUSATION CAUSES UPROAR
ASSOCIATED Press)

SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 3-An echo
of the so-called bribery-graft cases,
which occupied the courts of San
Francisco for nearly two years, was
heard today and so loudly and amid
so much disorder in the court room
that two attorneys were each sem
fenced to five days in Jail and one to
ten days for contempt of court by Su-
perior Judge w. Z. Lawlor.
Following the denial by Judge Law
lor of the motion made several weeks
ago to dismiss the indictments still
pending against Patrick Calhoun,
president of the United Railroads,
charged with having attempted to
bribe supervisors, the court made a
lengthy statement setting forth the
reasons for the denial.
1t was in replying to this statement
and resenting what the attorneys for
the defendant declared to be Jasper
sions and false insinuations reflecting
upon the defendant and his counsel
that A. A. Moore, his son, Stanley
Moore, and John j. Barrett were ad-
Judged in contempt of court. Judge
Lawlor, however, of his own motion,
allowed the three lawyers to be free
until Monday in order to give them
time to institute proceedings to test
his right to punish Them
CREATES UPRoAR
Not since the time that Francis j,
Heney was shot has Judge Lawlors
court room been the scene of so much
confusion and disorder as today, when
half a dozen attorneys were on their
feet, talking at the same time and
disregarding the courts order to take
their seats.
Judge Lawlor's declaration that Dis
mi 1,,,1 fnI1 ya1
The lead of the defendant" in seeking
% have the cases dismissed also
brought that official to his feet with
vigorous denial and threat that
ne would bring you (the judge be-
'ore the grand jury"
The court held that the language of
counsel in replying to the courts
statement was wilfully and inten-
tionally contemptuous.
When the Calhoun case was called
Stanley Moore moved that the indict-
ments against the street railway pres
ident be dismissed.
A similar motion having been made
several times recently, Judge Lawlor
had prepared a long statement giving
his reasons for refusing to dismiss the
charges against the defendant. When
the court finished the reading STAN
ley Moore arose and denounced Judge
Lawlor's actions in refusing the dis
missal as an effort to "do politics"
from the bench. His refusal to re-
sumo his seat at the command of the
court caused Judge Lawlor to order
him into immediate custody.
ACCUSES JUDGE LAwLOR
When the bailiff removed Moore to
a seat beside the bench his father, A.
A. Moore, arose and, stating that he
agreed with the remarks of his son,
biq haliaf afh1f
Judge Lawlor was a bitter partisan
and had been doing dirty politics even
before the indictments were returned" .
With this charge the court room was
in an uproar, with attorneys and court
officials shouting at each other. When
order was restored two sentences of
five days each, running concurrently,
had been imposed on A. A. Moore
Stanley Moore had been sentenced to
five days and similar sentence had
been meted out to j. ]. Barrett.
District Attorney Fickert was sew
eral times threatened with arrest for
contempt for criticising the statement
of the court, but he escaped the pun
ishment inflicted on the defendants
attorneys. Each of the sentences was
suspended un'il next Monday.
GALLAGHER AGAIN IN CASE
The statement of the court which
precipitated the trouble was devoted
chiefly to a decision of the probable
causes for the absence from this state
of James L. Gallagher, chief witness
for the prosecution in the former trial
of Patrick Calhoun. Concerning the
charge made before him by District
Attorney Fickert that Gallagher had
been sent away by the preceding ad-
ministration, Judge Lawlor said:
"I found no evidence in the showing
tending to support so grave a charge,
and upon sound reasoning it would
seem to be opposed to every reason
able probability"
The case was continued until Au-
gust 20.