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Show 'SUEF MUST GO 10 SAN QHENTIN SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 28. What .appears to be the Inst hope of Abraham Abra-ham Ruef, political boBC of San Francisco Fran-cisco during the regime of Mayor Eugene Eu-gene Schmitz, of escaping his sentence sen-tence of 14 years in San Qucntln, was dissipated late today when the state Gupromc court vacated its recent re-cent order granting Ruef a rc-henr-Ing. It was this order which resulted in the Introduction In the state logis lature at Sacramento of a resolution providing for an investigation of the methods of the supreme court in grartting re-hearlngB. The order granting Ruef a rc-hearlng had been tgned by four of the Justices, but at different times and not while sitting as a court. Justice Henshaw signed It first and then left the state, the other justlcec placing their signatures to the order later. The vacation was made on the ground that the absence of Justice W F. Henshaw, one of the Justices who signed it, from the state at the time the order granting the rehearing re-hearing became effective, made the action null and void. In the decision granting the motion to vacate the oider of rc-hearlng, the court explained explain-ed that the point on which it had been granted had never before been brought to the attention of the supreme su-preme tribunal of this state. Ruef was convicted on ono of the seventy odd indictments charging bn'bery of supervisors, returned during the bribery brib-ery graft investigation in 1907, financed fin-anced by Rudolph Sprockets and conducted con-ducted by Francis J. Hency nnd Wil-Ham Wil-Ham J. Burns. |