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Show Spreckels did not have his financial statement. When Spreckels had been excused, the prosecution called two officials of the Aetna Insurance company, who were asked to furnish the losses of the United Railroads in the' fire of 1906 and the amount of insurance allowed al-lowed the corporation by a committee of adjusters. the subject of money expended by him on the support of the graft prosecution, prose-cution, was deferred by his failure to produce the itemized statement of those payments and he was excused until tomorrow morning. Mr. Spreckels Spreck-els assured the court that he would be able to produce the desired figures fig-ures then. Spreckels, resuming the stand when the session opened,-was asked to ex-, plain portions of the testimony given by him, which Mr. Rogers declared to be inconsistent with sworn utterances utter-ances of three years ago. The witness wit-ness said his recollection was probably probab-ly at fault. I "Do you know that Mr. Calhoun and other officials of the United Railroads were called before the grand Jury contemporaneously with the calling oX a street car strike?" he was asked. It was then discovered that M,r. DISAPPOINTMENT IN COURTROOM San Francisco, May 19 To the disappointment of a crowded courtroom, court-room, Rudolph Spreckels, whose testimony tes-timony in the trial of Patrick Calhoun, Cal-houn, has been the most interesting feature of the long case, was excused from the witness stand today after the proceedings had lasted less than an hour. Ills cross-examination, on i |