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Show "THAT'S THE IRISH IN MEJ Francis Heney- and Detective .Bijpw are responsible re-sponsible 'for "aTl Heney is the son of an. Irish Catholic ftather and a Lutheran mother. He professes no religion. Burns is of pure Irish descent. In the trialiof Mayor Schmitz the nationality question entereil into the closing argument. Attorney Barrett f :r Mayor Schmitz had made a sharp attack on He icy in his closing argument, to which the latter replied: "I fling back at these men the scurrilous, cowardly, cow-ardly, dirty attempts they have made to prejudice me and to prejudice this .case. That's the Irish in me. I'm half Irish, and I had to get it out of my system." Continuing, he said, addressing himself to J uror O'Meara: "Mr. Barrett knows that the Napoleon of crime, Buef, would never have consented to my appointment appoint-ment as police commissioner. That's the Irish part in me, gentlemen. I am half Irish and half Dutch. Unlike Mr. Barrett, these hands have been hardened hard-ened by work, hardened by a drill and by throwing calves and branding them. Fortunately, I have mixed with people who have earned their bread by the sweat of their brow. Therefore, Mr. O'Meara, that is why Mr. Barrett tried to prejudice you against me. Mr. O'Meara, I had a challenge left when you were first called to the jury, but I didn't use it on you, because I saw the honesty on your brow. That is the Irish in me. It is that which makes me want to fight every time a man like Barrett Bar-rett is around." |
