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Show I ASSOCIATE COUNSEL FOR ABRAj-I ABRAj-I HAM RUEF IS TAKEN ' INTO CUSTODY. ' Murphy and Abbott Charged With Having Received Stolen Goods, All Others With Grand Larceny Offices of Calhoun and Staff In Charge of Burns Men Safes Forced Open by ! Expert Raid on Officer Rendered t Dramatic by Refusal to Open Door j and Smashing of Gls Panel. - San Francisco, Mach 28. Follow Ing the sensational developments in the bribery graft cases yesterday, brought about by the arrest of three United Railroad officials and five other persona in connection with the alleged theft of jury districts data concerning veniremen and other papers pa-pers from the office of the district at-tornev at-tornev and that of William J. Burn, who heada the detective force of th prosecution,- Frank J. Murphy, asuo- elate counsel for Abraham Ruef. during dur-ing the trial of the former political boss, was taken luto cuBtoday today. The others arrested are William A. Abbott, assistant general counsel for the United Railroads; Joseph H. Hand-Ion, Hand-Ion, claims agent for the railroad companv; Luther Brown, hend of the railroad' detectives; Rex. N. Hamlin, private secretary of William J. Burns; (Continued on Page Eight) . associated in th defense of Calhoun, had refused th detectives admission and th glass door had been broken in. The work of looking over every papr found1 In tne rooms was finished tonight .after two sates filled with Calhoun's personal papers and another used by Thornwell Mullaly had boon forced upon by an expert called in by the officials. Tho search was watched by Calhoun Cal-houn in person today on his return from Gleen county, where he spent Saturday on a hunting trip. "This search Is being made under a bogus warrant and Is designed only to "permit them to look at our private papers." said Calhoun tonight, stAnd-ing stAnd-ing amii the disarranged furniture of his office while the detectives ransacked ran-sacked his safe. "Yon can see for yourself that they have found nothing and that they expected to find nothing. noth-ing. If they were abiding by Ideals of truo dealing and fair mindedness, why did they make this Bearch on Saturday night and Sunday when we cannot reach tho courts to question their "powers? They desire to look at my prlrat papers" and seized a time when they could do so without interruption, when I was away from the city." As tho officers turned from the last safe tonight A. A. Mooro of the Calhoun Cal-houn defense, asked: "Did you find anything, sergeant?" "No," answered Detective Sergeant Mulcahey, who, with the Burns men, conducted the search. "Did you expect to find anything?" asked Calhoun. Tho officers announced that he was through with his work and Calhoun said. "Well, officers, will you leave us now with the debris of this office?" The raid on the office was rendered dramatic enough through the refusal of Earl Rogers of Calhoun counsel to permit It. The glass panel of the office of-fice door was shattered with a policeman's police-man's club, and the detectives stepped in. In the meantime word had been received by Burns that a large number of railroad mon wero being gathered at on of the barns and he called on the police for help. Thirty uniformed patrolmon and a dozen or more detectives were rushed, to the office building and tho search made with these men at hand. According to the statement made by Burns, he had suspected that somo one in . his employ was receiving money from the defense in the Calhoun Cal-houn case and other cases arising out of the bribery charge In connection with the overhead trolley franchise. Burns said that he finally became convinced con-vinced that Hamlin, his secretary, had been approached in a round-about way and that lie was in receipt of $200 a month from these persons, for which he had been systematically betraying the secrets of the prosecution to tho defense. Having satisfied himself as to this, Burns placed Hamlin, McKlnley, Cor-bln. Cor-bln. Van Wormer.and Piatt under arrest ar-rest He states that Hamlin, Corbln and Piatt confessed and he secured search warrants bv virtue of which his men entered' the railroad offices and Luther ' Brown's offlco and went through all papers they found. Tho arrest of Abbott. Brown. Handlon nnd Murphy followed and they were balled out as soon as they arrived at tho police station. "Documents -found In Calhoun's office of-fice fully Justify our proceedings." said Detectivo Busn tonight. "Wo were looking for copies of our records and papers In connection with the various cases and found what we sought. Tho confessions and the papers we found are convincing proof of tho bribery of my men by the Cnlboun interests." The trial of Calhoun will enter on its twelfth week tomorrow with six sworn Jurors and five temporarily passed In tho box. It is oxpected that the work of completing the Jury will be rendered doubly difficult by the developments de-velopments of the last two days, i Mr. Calhoun made a statement to newspaper men tonight In which he said "You hare been, gentlemen, wir no6S03 of on of the most significant outrages ever committed on the American Amer-ican contient Under out constitution, and an a part of the fundamental basis of American liberty, every man is protected pro-tected against the unlawful search and seizure of his papers. "Yesterday afternoon was a legal holiday. I was absent from the city. William J. Burns took this opportunity by swearing out a bogus complaint to seize upon the offices of the United Railroads and make a search of Its papers and records." Calling attention .to the faBt that he had protested a number of times against the detectives looking at papers pa-pers which from. their headlugs bor evidence' that they could never have been in possession of Burns and that one of the searchers roplled that they were looking for a signature to a telegram, tele-gram, Calhoun continued: "Thl6 could not under any stretch of law have been within the purview of a search warrant mad avowedlly for the purpose of securing papers belonging to Burns The evident pur-Pobo pur-Pobo of this search warrant was not to obtain papers belonging to Burns. It was a fishing expedition for the purpose of looking into the private affairs af-fairs of the United Railroads and, if possible, gathering from the files evidence evi-dence to support their alleged charged of bribery againet mo. "This search and the manner of its conduct is a fitting climax to the course which the presocution has pursued pur-sued toward me." At G:30 o'clock an injunction was issued is-sued by Superior Judge Frank J. Mu-rasky, Mu-rasky, enjoining the district attorney and William J. Burns and their agents from continuing th search of the offices of-fices of the United Railroads. Th restraining re-straining order was served just as the examination of the papers in Calhoun's office was almost finished. Acting, it is said, upon the instructions instruc-tions of Assistant District Attorney James Hanloy, the Burns men refused to recognlre the Injunction and continued con-tinued the search. ASSOCIATE COUNSEL FOR ABRAHAM ABRA-HAM RUEF IS TAKEN INTO CUSTODY. (Continued from Pago One.) Al McKlnley. declared to be a confidential confi-dential employe of the railroad: William Wil-liam Corbln, said to be a former agent for Ruof; Jeremiah Van Wormer, a railroad detective, and E. A. Piatt, who is attached to the district attorney's attor-ney's office. Abbott and Murphy are charged with having received stolen goods and all the othors with grand larceny, llandlcn, JJrown, Abbott and .Murphy hav been released on ball provided by an agent of th railroad company. From late last night until early this evening the offices of Patrick Calhoun nnd his legal staff. In the Balboa building, build-ing, were in charge of Burnss men. who were armed with a search warrant war-rant issued by Police Judge Peasy. The search of the rooms was bepun alter their occupants, the attorneys |
