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Heney had but one assistant, John O'Gara, a deputy in Langdon's office. For five long months the Prosecution fought such odds. Heney lost his temper frequently in court. He was on the verge of a nerve prostration. Anti-prosecution papers hinted that his faculties were failing. Langdon more or less withdrew from the fight.
But before a jury was empanelled the November ballot gave the Prosecution its "coup de grace." P.H. McCarthy was elected Mayor. Charles Fickert defeated Heney for the district attorneyship. An anti-Prosecution government took office. "Big Jim" Gallagher, the Prosecution's leading witness, disappeared. Fickert sought dismissal of the Calhoun case and finally obtained it.
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