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Show JURY DISAGREES II CALHOUN CASE Futile End of Trial Lasting Over Five Months, Ten Jurors Voting for Acquittal of Accused. Calhoun Declares That He Will Bring Bribery Charges Against Heney, Spreckels and Phelan Was Disappointed at Failure of Jury to Acquit. San Francisco. Terminating in a disagreement of the jury, with ten men determined on acquittal and two steadfastly resolved upon conviction, the trial of President Patrick Calhoun Cal-houn of the United Railroads came to an end at noon Sunday. Five months and a week had transpired since the wealthy street car magnate, a descendant de-scendant of Patrick Henry, made his first appearance in court to answer to the charge of offering a bribe of $4,-000 $4,-000 to a corporation to obtain a privilege priv-ilege for his corporation, and a period pe-riod of twenty-four hours had M)een consumed in fruitless deliberation. Not until each juror had pronounced as hopeless the prospect of a verdict was the order for their liberation made by Judge William P. Lawlor. Prosecutkm and defense gave assent to the discharge, and the proceedings ended within a period of fifteen minutes. min-utes. The trial, which will stand on record rec-ord in the history of western litigation litiga-tion for many a year, ended quietly and without demonstration. In a long statement issued by Mr. Calihoun Sunday night, he saifl. "Of course, I am disappointed at the failure of the jury to acquit me of the unjust charges which have been brought against me. I should have liked my vindication by the jury to have been absolute. And yet, when all circumstances are considered, from the fact that ten members of the jury were in favor of acquittal, it must be recognized that I have won a substantial victory. The record of the case demonstrates that my trial was most unfair unprallelel in the annals of American jurisprudence. The judge was hostile, the assistant district dis-trict attorney bribed and the administration admin-istration of the criminal law of this state disgraced. I propose at the proper time and In a proper manner to submit formal charges against Assistant As-sistant District Attorney Francis J. Heney for receiving bribes as a public pub-lic officer, and against Rudolph Spreckels and James D. Phelan, who financed the prosecution, for having paid them." |