| Show I TEMPERS WORKED TO THIN EDGES San May Mar 22 Adjourn Adjournment mont aloft of court last night nigh l ended tho the most Important week eek In lu tho thu long Ions drawn out trial of Patrick Calhoun president of the tIe United Railroads now well into the fifth firth month of duration Judge and Jury and princE principals pals Indicated their relief at nt tempo lempo temporary escape from tho the strain of the Iho past few days da g when every Gor step for forward ward has luts been b Jen characterized by skir skirmishes legal anti and persona that hourly Increase In bitterness Tempers on both bolh sides KIles wore were ere worked to thin edges while Rudolph cIa ela millionaire banker who financed tho the prosecution and John Helms ai al alternated on ott tho the witness stand yester yesterday yesterday yesterday day and anti It was evident from the In Intense intense I tense tongo Interest displayed by bj rival coun counsel aol sel that a crisis In the case had been heen I reached but bul not passed Interest was I sustained until a n late lale hour in the af nf afternoon when assistant District Attorney ney ner Francis l J Honey Heney Ignoring two restraining orders Issued hy by b a n court of similar Jurisdiction announced that thaL he Ito would ask Judge permission permissIon sion slon to open sealed packages es seized in the thc raid mid upon tho the of William WilliamM M Abbott and alleged to contain doc doe stolen from the of or Wil Vil William liam Ham J Burns Durns head of the prosecutions prosecutions corps of special detectives Arguments upon this Issue were vie lc fored until Monday Monda when the Chic prose prosecution cution cullon according to announcement made yesterday will attempt to sup support support port the tho charges made by b Detective Helms against Abbott under whoso whose direction he ho claims to have One of the lines of probable Inquiry was indicated today tola when Helms af at after after atter ter testifying that thol ho lie knew Luther Drown Brown former format f partner of Earl Rogers orS orSsa said sa I d Brown Drown met me mo at nt the steamer land landing Ing ng on the day da I left lett tho the city after aCter quitting the service of oC the tho United Railroads He lie asked me rae what I know about tho the dynamiting What dynamiting Inquired Mr hone The Tho dynamiting of home lome said tho the witness referring to he tho blowing up In Oakland last spring of tho the home homo of former Supervisor James L TJ Gallagher The Tho defense objected to this line of Inquiry and It was wis not pursued pursue fur furher further thor her Another opening op wedge was wa ns Insert Inserted ed Cd when Helms declared that several efforts had been made to prevent his appearance us liS a n witness In the tho Cal Calhoun Calhoun Calhoun houn trial Mention was made of oC two men man who wont went to his homo home in Trin Trinty ty Ity it count county several weeks ago and nail Helms charged that since Ills lIIs hil arrival In n this city elt n a plot hail had been laid In Inthe Inthe the he of W TI H Metson a prominent ent attorney of this city elt to trap him himI himIn I In n a conversation over ever the telephone Tho The testimony followed an Inquiry by b Mr Rogers Ropers who asked tho the If he ic know knew that a hall hail been attached to tho the telephone nc while he ho heWLIS was speaking from the Iho other end of oC the tho ho line It was ns while Helms Thelma was 33 on the stand that hat the most dramatic outburst of the CIte theda day da occurred Helms charged that Abbott had hall once expressed to him a n 1 that sonic somo one ono would shoot lIen oy cr 0 nail and that Stanley Moore foore had con congratulate him on his performance In following allowing Burns Usually deliberate In lila his manner Stanley SUmler Moore loore arose In his place at atho atthe atthe the ho counsel table tahle and In a voice olce trem hung ding with passion told Helms that ho 10 was lying like a dog and per perjurIng jurIng himself The face of or tho witness paled at athe he tho Insult instill and anti he ho stopped stepped In front of Judge Lawlor I with his arm extended In iii n a threatening threaten In gesture as he defied the young attorney to make his charge Charles W Cobb law partner of or ofIr Mr Ir lionel Hency who sho ho was credited with a payment of by b Rudolph Spreckels els cIa for services In the prosecution was tho the third witness of tho the day Mr purpose evident IrrO tram from 1 tho the questions and replies rephie was to support its his claims that Clint he ho had engaged In Inthe bo the work of oC the tho prosecution without compensation and anti a great personal sacrifice The Tho Inquiry had nad not proceeded far I when Alexander King iCing objected that I It t sorrel served no purpose other than the tho of the Tho court permitted Mr Honey to continue how however over ever and Mr Cobb said ho lie knew lenew that lie his associate had thrown up tip hIs bitt rep representation of the government In the land fraud cases cunes anti and the finger mn er Hermann case CISO and that Clint lie hc had refused President enL offer to direct the tho prosecution of Senator Bor llor Borah Borah au ah of Idaho Mr Cobb affirmed that Mr Honey Hono had haul lost lest his law practice since entering upon lila hla duties as mu municipal prosecutor |
