Show RUffS CASE IN I HANDS Of JURY Closing Argument for the State I Made by Hiram Johnson Serving Without Pay END OF REMARKABLE TRIAL HENEY IN COURT AS A WITNESS IN MURPHY CASE 44 44 I 44 4 44 r rr r 4 Francisco Dec 10 read San of at the three su 4 4 Ing ot of the was finished and the jury 4 I 4 mornIng mornIngto at this I Ito 4 or Ct take teke a 0 ballot to deliberate before retiring one ju jun Just the court to define the I n s bribe tribe between an offer to t tj d difference receiving of at a bribe the 4 9 and t t t M t M M t M t M i t Francisco Dec Dee case of off SJ 51 I I ith bribery of ot aham Ruef charged f to I of at this city elt went B II I hi former supervisor today toda At t 4 af after er I he jury jur at 3 p m in min minutes been out two hours and nine having baving the jury requested and was riven utes J Judge se il il l to dinner by permission mission to go ordered to re resume P Lawlor but tut was ham at S clock deliberation sum sume p ulal the last day dar of the Throughout has 10 da dayS s to bring crowded to toa toa the court room was wS a or of local and women with men taken after the I 1 It unusual precautions The rite Francis J 1 Heney hooting of oC and t today toda In full force were resumed subjected to close scrutiny the spectators surrounded b by a heavy en entrY Were ot Of the stage detail r f police pollee at ever every proceedings I Closing Argument attorneys I one of oC the Hiram his hs services after Mr lr who closed the argument at shot Heney Hene was M address of two hours and nd noon after an which time he reviewed a hal argUments during set forth by the defense man many others of his own man many and of the prosecution to the case seeking In the form of oC a the jurors tion before with connECted chain or of events defendant as center He charged that the had admitted his guilt than one occasion and he be more maintained upon that the defense had never neer I who Shaken of or witnesses the testimony farmed shaken Ruef with receiving S OOOO from United Railroads and with giving the former Supervisor or James L Gallagher the mem memer distributed among jj WO to be board of the er The Instructions of or the court were de vered Yr i after a slight delay dela and con contrary TW to expectations occupied but an hour hout hourIn houtIn In delivery Ruef Was War Nervous During the first hour that the ju jury re remained secluded d Ruef paced nervously up end and down don be the aisle occasionally stop stopping i 1 iDIng I and often ping DIng to acquaintances I sinking into li hi seat where he appeared bowed In thought his back turned to the spectators Henry Ach Ruef s chief counsel whoso host I efforts In behalf of or his client have several times threatened him with a penalty of oC collapse did not appear In court this afternoon and It was reported that he bad had been stricken with pleurisy during the noon recess as a result of ot a cold con contacted last night after he had completed ai a address of or six hours and twenty min minutes mm utes History of the Case One of ol the most remarkable trials In Inthe Inthe the history of or California will end with I the discharge of ot the jury that U Is tonight I the fate of ot Abraham Ruef arged with the bribery of at a former supervisor of or this city Both In duration and by reason of the startling and unusual occurrences that IRe have attended Its progress pro ess the trial has attained position as the most Important outgrowth of ot the exposures of the sum summer summer mer nier of ot 1906 when a grand Jury ju after atter hearing the confessions of ot sixteen mem members members bers of the board of or supervisors returned pores nores of oC Indictments charging bribery against the supervisors Mayor Eugene E and against Ruef then recognized recognized recognized as the political head of or the and against officials of or the street railway system the gas and elec electric company compan two telephone companies a realty company and a quartet of at prize prizefight prizefight fight tight promoters Former Trials In addition to several trials In which the alleged associates of or Ruef figured as defendants Ruef himself has twice ap appeared appeared to answer one of the scores of or In Indictments pending against him In the first case wherein herein Ruef Ruet was charged with extorting money mone from the proprietor tor of ot a French restaurant the defendant pleaded guilty at the same time pro protesting protesting testing his Innocence The case was aft afterwards afterwards reversed by the higher courts In n the second trial upon a charge of or hay hav having ha haIn log ing In bribed supervisors In tho the application of 0 the Parkside Realty company comp n for a trolley franchise the jury jur disagreed reed after afterman many man hours of o deliberation Th The pending trial was upon an Indict Indictment meat ment charging char n Ruef Rue with Hh bribing former Supervisor John J Furey Fure It was com commenced t on Aug 26 6 and therefore ther fore has I been in progress 10 days das of ot which at least seventy were actual court days The I jury Ju was not completed until Nov Xo C Ii when the trial was days da s old I The record now containing pages und and over words shows that 0 i were nere ere summoned of or whom i were actually examined As the jurors were passed over to the sheriff sheri as they i were selected six of or the men who com corn composed composed posed the jury ju have been deprived of or their liberty rt since Sept 26 a period of or days da Attorneys Indicted I Shortly after aft l the trial commenced Frank FrankJ J 1 Murphy and Adolph dolph Newburg two of or orthe the attorneys S engaged In the defense of ot Rue Ruef were Indicted upon a charge of ot at attempting attempting attempting tempting to bribe John M 1 Kelly a s tales man In one of or the Ruef Ruet venires E 8 S Blake a contractor indicted upon the I same charge was 1085 convicted by bys a Jury i and aud afterwards confessed He Is still awaiting sentence and the trial of ot Mur Murphy Murph Murphy phy ph In which Blake was the principal witness for the prosecution is in pro po progress gress ress in another department of the su au superior perlor court I Shooting of Heney The attempted assassination a of or Francis FrancisJ I IJ J Heney Hene who originally had charge of or orthe the case as assistant district attorney was perhaps the most startling outcome of or the third Ruef trial Heney was shot In the court courtroom room on the afternoon of Nov No 13 1 by Morris Haas a s liquor dealer who several weeks before in sec see second second ond trial had qualified to a seat In the I Iju Jury ju box and whose record e rd as os an ex er I 1 convict was exposed by b Mr Ir Heney Hene Haas Has Haason Hason I on th night of oc Nov 15 committed sul sut clde in his celt cell at the county count jail by b shooting himself with a small derringer I which he ne Is i believed to have secreted In his shoe i During a period of considerable excite excitement excitement I ment that followed the shooting hooting of ot Mr i Honey Heney Heno many man attorneys of or ability offered their service as substitutes In the trial i ifor for Mr Ir Heney Hene Of Ot these the services of Hiram Johnson Matt Iatt I Sullivan and J J 1 J Daly Dal were accepted and their services servIces services ices during the past four weeks have been without monetary compensation John J 3 J an assistant district at attorney attorney torney torne has hR been engaged In the trial since its Inception I On the side of or the defense Henry Hen Ach Aeh has been chief counsel of ot Ruef Ruet through throughout I out Thomas B Dozier Do er of Shasta has as assisted asI I slated him in the case ease since the retire retirement I mont ment of ot Frank J J Murphy Murph following th Indictment |