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Show ALEXANDER KING OPENS THE ARGUMENT IN HALF OF CALHOUN , Southern Lawyer Crosses the Continent to Assist Defense of Former Leal Associate He Denounces O'Gara for Enveloping Case in Atmosphere At-mosphere of Suspicion, and Appealing to Presupposed Prejudices of Jurors,, and Characterizes Him as Most Ungenerous San Francisco. .Tune 15. Alexander King, of Atlanta, (hi., who crossed the continent to assist in the defense of Patrick Calhoun, with whom he was once associated In legal practice, opened open-ed the argument in behalf of his client cli-ent today. With friends and business associates pressing alout him and his wife and daughters seated in full view of I lie jury, the president of tho United Unit-ed Railroads listened attentively to every word of the smooth-voiced Southern attorney, whose remark a could scarcely bedlstinguished at the further cud of the crowded courtroom. court-room. Realizing.after the seven-hour address ad-dress of Assistant District Attorney John O'Gara. that the battle of arguments argu-ments is to bp one of the most important import-ant ever waged In this city, an Increased Increas-ed throng of men and women sought admission to Carpenter's hall early In the morning, and under police supervision, super-vision, the court room was filled hair an hour before tho argument opened. "i warn you against tho atmosphero of suspicion with which the prosecution prosecu-tion has enveloped this case," said Mr King in hla opening. "You must try it on proof alone, and Ignore every hypothesis that has been commonly spread out for your Inspection. "Mi. O'Gara has presented his case, in a manner most ungenerous. He has appealed to your presupposed prejudices, preju-dices, else why does he continually rcler to Mr. Calhoun as an Eastern man, as a ninn of great wealth, and why does he refer to great corporations corpora-tions as 'pirates'?" Mr. King's address was quickly directed di-rected to a review of the testimony, end he began by attacking the prosecution's prose-cution's motive in commenting on Ti-rey Ti-rey L. Ford's failure to testify for the delendant. "Who alone has been calling the witnesses in this esse?" he, asked. "The prosecution. It Ford, as they fay, could have swept, away all thlR suspicion, why did they not call him here? The defendant has taken th position that ho did not have to call witnesses, and should ho discriminate, calling a witness on one issue, and failing to do so on another?" |