Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 74, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1909 — HENEY SAYS NO SHOT FROM BEHIND AGAIN [ARTICLE]

HENEY SAYS NO SHOT FROM BEHIND AGAIN

Tells Witness He Is an American Before a Prosecutor. San Francisco, Feb. 16. —In the trial of Patrick Calhoun, the street railway magnate accused of bribery, Samuel Leake, formerly a newspaper manager, was on the stdnd. He was summoned on account of a charge that he had attempted to buy out a business conducted by a brother of one of the jurors. . Leake was being questioned concerning his visits to a certain resort when he said: “I think it improper for you to refer to these things, Mr. Heney. I could tell of places I saw you— ’’ “I want you to stop right now,” Interrupted Prosecutor Francis J. Heney. “I don’t propose that you shall make any more threats. You are there to answer questions.” “There is one conversation you don’t dare to refer to,” retorted the witness. “There was one when you went up the back way into the Call office—” “That’s all there will be of that,” said Heney. “I took this sort of thing from Henry Ach for months, until it led to an attempt at assassination and after this I want it understood that I won’t take It from any man living. If I am going to be shot again I’ll be shot in front, not from behind, nor from the side. Before lam a district attorney I am an American citizen and in that capacity I want to say right here and now I draw the line over which no living man may step. For months I took all the vinification that could be heaped on me merely because I dared to do my duty, but I am through with It now, and I want this thoroughly understood.”