The Calhoun Trial

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jul 7, 1909

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 36, No. 26.

The Calhoun Trial.

After a long trial including weeks, and even months, the jury in the Calhoun bribery case of San Francisco failed to agree on a verdict, and so were discharged June 20. It is now five months or over since Mr. Calhoun, president of the United Railroads, made his first appearance in court to answer to the charge of offering a bribe of $4,000 to a supervisor to obtain a privilege for his corporation. Mr. Heney proposes to make another attempt for conviction. The jurors who voted not guilty, give, as their reason for doing so, the alleged fact that they had no confidence in the testimony of the supervisors, detectives, and some others of the paid witnesses of the prosecution.