Heney, in an affidavit filed in the case of The People vs. Patrick Calhoun et al., No. 823, states that he finally said to Kaplan, “You only annoy and irritate me by coming here, Doctor, and I wish you would stay away. I don’t want to get mad at you, because I respect you and am satisfied that you are sincere, but Ruef is making a fool of you, and I have wasted more time than I can spare in talking with you about these things. You will do me a great favor if you will stay away from my office.”
In spite of this suggestion, Kaplan, a few days later, called Heney up on the telephone. Of the incident, Heney says in his affidavit: “A few days later, however, he called me on the telephone. I was at my office at the time, and do not know where he was. He said over the telephone in substance, ‘Mr. Heney, I don’t like to trouble you any more, but I had a talk with Mr. Burns and I have since had another talk with Mr. Ruef, and I am sure that Mr. Ruef’s testimony will now satisfy you. He says that when he is on the witness stand and you ask him’—I interrupted him at about this point and said in a very severe tone of voice, ‘Dr. Kaplan, I don’t want you talking such stuff to me over the phone, or anywhere else. I have asked you not to talk to me about this matter any more and not to come to my office, and I will now have to ask you not to call me any more on the telephone. I don’t want to hear anything more about Ruef’s testimony.’”
See affidavits filed by Rabbis Nieto and Kaplan in the case of The People vs. Patrick Calhoun et al.
See [Chapter XV].
See [Chapter XV].
A letter from W. H. Payson, a leader of the San Francisco bar, to Rabbi Nieto fairly expressed the public attitude on the Rabbi’s stand. Mr. Payson’s letter read: “Rabbi Jacob Nieto. Dear Sir:—As you have written a letter to the public explaining your connection with the Ruef case, it may not be out of place for one of the public to reply.