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Show GREAT CROWDS GATlEREflO DEAR 'CONCLUSION -OF BBNBY'S ARGUMENT Dramatic Tenseness in Court Room as Assistant District Attorney Resumes . His Speech Ridicules Theory of Defense That While Ford and Ruef Are Guilty, Calhoun Is Innocent He Is Interrupted Three Times During First Thirty Minutes By Lawyers For Defense. permits me to live." "They say wo want political preferment," prefer-ment," he declared, "and that we might split it over the office of United States senatorship. Anyone who wants I that office may have it so far as I am concerned.'1 1 On the subject of bossism Mr. Heney said: "What a spectacle is this for American Amer-ican citizens The history or the country coun-try shows that the menace to our existence ex-istence as a republic lies in our great cities, where we foster the bosses. Bosses are not created, thoy merely : fake advantage of conditions. They ; are supported by two rlases. as they I ere at the time of the second elr- ! tion of Eugene E. Schmltz. One holds J forth in the tenderloin, where they j want a permit to commit crime, to j run opium joints, dance halls, and to j rob drunken men, hoping to arrange I it that the police may be blind. The i other class preys from alove. They i are the people who live on Pacific avenue av-enue and in the so-called fashionable . neighborhoods. They want higher '. dividends from their investments In their gns and railway and telephone prlvlliges. "But you don't mean that they join i hands with the" tenderloin to aeconi- j pllsh these ends? Yes, that's exactly j what I do mean. And that is what ' makes the boss possible. I "By sending the Ruefs and that ilk I to the penitentiary you do not chauce conditions; you merely create a va- j cancy for another boss." Mr. Heney said he was willing to devote his life to a principle; that be had been forced by conditions to accept ac-cept a nomination for district attorney of San Francisco, nnd ho bitterly scored tlio attorneys for the defeusc on account of their criticism of his acceptance ac-ceptance of funds from Rudolph Sprekels. San Francisco. June IS. Long before be-fore the doors of Carpenter's hall, where the trial of Patrick Calhoun is ( being held, were opened this morning, a throng of people gathered to hear the conclusion of the final urgnme:', which Francis J. Heney, tho assistant district attorney, is making. The police po-lice were on hand, and had some difficulty diffi-culty in keeping the crowd moing, but there was little disorder. Inside the court rooms, the spectators wero packed into the limited space, until there was no standing room left. Promptly, as usual, the street ear magnate mag-nate and his attorneys arrived in automobiles, au-tomobiles, and entered the court room through a lane cleared by the police. The members of the prosecution also arrhed in automobiles, and hurried into the court room. There was a dramatic tenseness la the air of the court room, and the spectators spec-tators listened with strained attention to the speech, which Mr. Heney resumed re-sumed at the point where he ceased yesterday, when court adjourned. While court was In session, the croud lingered outside, but was kept on tho opposite side of the street by the mounted police, who were continually contin-ually busy keeping a way. clear for traffic. The famous case. Which has been on trial for five months, was the absorbing topic among those who could not get into the court room. Mr. Heney will probably conclude his argument late this afternoon, and the case will bo given to the jury tonight, to-night, or the twelve men will be permitted per-mitted to retire for a good night's rest and receive the courfs charge early tomorrow. It Is understood that Ihe instructions will take some three hours tn deliver. In the first thirty minutes of today's proceedings, Mr. Heney was three times interrupted by attorneys for the j defense, who charged him with refer- j ring to subjects outside of the case, ( and assigned his remarks as error and ; misconduct. Strictest vigilance was exercised by the twenty policemen, who handled the crowds of the early session, and few persons, lacking credentials, gained admission to the hall. Half a J dozen special agents of the district attorney's office crowded their way through the court room, and a dozen armed retainers of the prosecution surrounded the jury box, and forced the crowd across the dividing rails. i Mr. Heney was In good voice, and I plunged directly Into his reply to the 1 arguments of the defense. He ridiculed ridicul-ed the theory of the defense that Tirey L. Ford, of the United Railroads, had paid a fee to Abraham Ruef, and that the supervisors had extorted the money they received from the former boss, and not from the defendant, 'It Is fabricated evidence," said Heney. "It shows the guile of the defendanl, even to hypothetically admit ad-mit as much as that." As-Mr. Heney proceeded, the high tension attendant upon the hearing close of the case was manifested In i frequent interruptions from counsel j for the defense, and the quick retorts I of the prosecutor. There was a wrangle when he went ( into the matter of class prejudice, which Mr. Moore had asked the jury to ignore, "Is there anything here." sail Heney, "that leads to a belief that Rudolph Spreckels was perjuring himself, him-self, when he told you of the time that Patrick Calhoun offered to move a ! railroad off Pacific avenue, where . Spreckcls lived? Well, this was an appeal to the class prejudice of Sprcckels by the defendant. I "It did not take three months to get a jury to try Michael Coffey, the supervisor, su-pervisor, nor did it take two months more to convict him of accepting a bribe, In this very trolley matter. "Coffey did not have money enough to obstruct justice, he was convicted on the same testimony offered here, Including In-cluding the testimony of James L. Gal- ; lagher " j There was a chorus of protest from the defendant's attorneys, who charged charg-ed that Mr. Heney was again guilty of error In making such reference, and Jmlge Lawlor instructed the jury to disregard the remark. Yesterday's Proceedings. One of the most dramatic incidents of Mr. Hency's address occurred when I he made reference to tho relations bo- . tween Abraham Rue and Tirey L. j Ford, general counsel for the United j railroads, who is alleged to have J bribed the political boss. "They have defied us to produce a witness who witnessed this bribery," j said the prosecutor. "They have said 'Show us tho man who saw Ford hand i this money to Ruef.' "Well," said Mr. Heney, walking toward the defense's side of the room, sciutinlzing the faces before him. "I will show you the man who saw Ford give this money, If he is here. He was i here yesterday, but he Is not here to- day. His name Is Tirey L. Ford and he- is the man who saw his own hand J pass this bribe money to Ruef." The assistant district attorney made avowal to the jury of his candidacy for district attorney. "I acknowledge that this is true," he said. "I have an ambition to freo my city from jury Oxers and wltnesR . bribers, aud an ambition to elnr out the filth that infests our public nffleps. And l will lumil that ambltiva If God ' |