Salt Lake Tribune | 1908-12-10 | Page 1 | Ruef's Case is Now in Hands of Jury

RUEF'S CASE IS 101 III HANDS OF JURY Trial Which Uas Dragged for More Than Three Months Draws to Close. SAX FRANCISCO, Doc. 0. The case of Abraham llucf, charged with bribery of a former supervisor of this city, wont to tho jur' at 3;'6G p. m. today. At 5:45, after having been out two hours and nine minutes, tho jur3' requested re-quested and was given permission to go to dinner by Judge William P. Law-lor, Law-lor, but was ordered to resume deliberations delibera-tions at S o'clock. Throughout the last day of the tTial, which has required 105 days to bring to a conclusion, tho courtroom was crowded with men and women of local prominence. The unusual precautious taken after the shooting of Prosecutor Francis J. Hcncy wero resumed today in full force, and the spectators, subjected sub-jected to close serutinv before entry, wore surrounded by a licavy detail or police at every stage of tho proceedings. pro-ceedings. Hiram Johnson, ono of the attorneys who volunteered his services after Mr. Hcncy was shot, closed the argument at noon, after an address of two hours and a half, during which timo ho reviewed re-viewed inauy arguments sot forth by the defense and advanced others of his own,, seeking to put the caso of tho proscculion before tho jurors iu tho form of a closed' connected chain of events, with tho defcudaut as center. He charged- that Puof had practically admitted his guilt upon moro than ono occasion, and ho maintained that tho defouao had never shaken the testimony i of witnesses who charcrcd Jiuef with i receiving $200,000 from the United ! Itailroads and with givintr former Supervisor Su-pervisor James L. (Jalla"hor SSo.OOO to , be distributed anioug the members of tho board. Tlic instructions of the court worn ; delivered after a slight delay, aud, I'ontrary to expectations, occupied but j I an hour in delivery. I During tho first hour that the .piry f remained secluded. Unci paced nervous-! nervous-! Iv up and down tho aisle, occasionally ! stopping io speak to acquaintances, aud ! of I on sinking into his seat, whore ho 1 appeared bowed in thought, his back turned lo tho spectators. Ho'nrv Ach. Hnef's chief counsel, whoso efforts in behalf of his client havo several times threatened him with a penalty of physical collapso, did not appear in cour 'his afternoon, nnd it; whs reported Unit he bad been stricken with pleurisy during tho noon recess as a result of a cold contracted last night, after he had completed an- address of six hours and twenty minutes.