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Show TRIAL IS NEARING END Calhoun Case May Go to Jury the Last of the Week San Francisco, May 4. With today's session, the trial of Patrick Calhoun, president of the United Railroads, encored en-cored upon its seventeenth week. Reports Re-ports of fresh testimony to be introduced intro-duced bv the prosecution has rendered render-ed it uncertain when the case will be j submitted to the jury, but it is possible pos-sible that, by the end of the week, the people will have presented all tho witnesses, wit-nesses, who figured in preceding i trials. Max Mamlock, the eleventh member ; of the Schmltz board of supervisors ' summoned in, the Calhoun trial, took tho stand at the opening of today's session and was subjected to a rou- j tine examination by prosecution and j dcfo.nse. The witness " said ho had been promised $4,000 for his vote ou the trolley permit by Jaruej L. Gallagher, Galla-gher, and he recalled that he had received re-ceived $2,000 from Gallagher in a safe deposit vault, but he could not recol- ' lect the circumstances under which second payment was made, although he was certain that Gallagher had given him the money. I Mamlock was followed bv Andrew M. Wilson, who acted as Gallagher's lieutenant on the board of supervisors. It was his first appearance as a witness wit-ness since the second trial of TIrey L. Ford. Upon this occasion, tho district attorney's office declared that he had refused to repeat important testimony j he had previously giycu. and he was subsequently indicted, hU immunity contract having been revoked. Al- ' though Wilson has uever been tried on the. indictment. It Is still In effect. Wilson's te6timonr was regarded as especially Important by the prosecution prosecu-tion because It furnished a second link directly connecting Abraham Ruel with a' member of the board.- Wilson told of soveral conversations regarding regard-ing the trolley permit with Gallagher. |