Show RUH RUEF F ESCAPES PEN AT PRESENT I Judge Dunne Expresses Express s His I i Opinion of the Former t V Boss San Francisco March ch 14 Pale and agitated Abraham braham Thief Ruef RU t former poUt political political ical boss of San Francisco for a few brief moments today apparently stood in the shadow of ot the tile penitentiary heard himself denounced from the bench as the greatest criminal who had ever appeared app ared before th bar in that court two Jewish rabbis who nho tho had interested themselves in lila his case edse c se designated ted willful vicious falsifiers expected expect d that the following t words would pass sentence upon him and nd the next moment had liberty almost with ih iti It his ls grasp Judge Dunne reluctantly regretfully granting a motion to arrest Judgment on his plea of at guilty to the charge of ot extorting money from the French restaurants Only the ban ball on the other indictments about which he declares he can promptly fur tur furnish furnish nish now stands between Ruef and his release from the county jail Dramatic Scene In Court The scene in department six of the Superior court today was wa W intensely dra dramatic dramatic dramatic matic Assistant District Attorney J Heney I eneY the tho special prosecutor tor in the cases had asked for a weeks time timO to see eee if good indictments could be carved out of the extortion dortlon Indictments declared by the appellate court count in the case of former Mayor M or who bo was w S convicted on the same charge to be fatally detec defee defective detective tive which decision de was unanimously sustained by the supreme court Judge Dunne however dismissed four of ot the five indictments j at the same time di directing directing directing the th district attorney to re resubmit resubmit resubmit submit the facts to another grand Jury Motion Finally Granted r When indictment to which Ruef had pleaded guilty came up Attorney Frank J T Murphy associate counsel for tor Ruef Ruet asked that the defendant d be al allowed allowed lowed to withdraw his plea having haing h ving Pled filed a lengthy affidavit several days ago as a foundation for this r Judge Dunne denied this motion bu finally granted a motion for tor an a arres of judgment t Strong Language of the thc Court CourtIn In granting the motion for tor arrest of rot f judgment jud Judge said lid The defendant would bit bC soni seni son to Fo F Fern pom oin for the maximum ma mum tern permitted by law lit if the supreme a preme court had not net pome cOlI to his relief r on ott Monday But at this thra time I see tee no other alternative V than to grant the motion I 1 want iv nt to say here both as a ritt citi zon on and qs ts a judicial office that in n my opinion it is H R matter much to tf b hi regretted that the thO appellate court did not reach a conclusion equally open opet to them which would bring as a much muri comfort and encouragement to th the forces of or good as the conclusion which they did reach will bring to the forces of evil throughout the he state 1 Y |