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Show RUEF'S APPEAL BREAKS RECORD FOR LENGTH SAN FRANCISCO, June 2S. Abraham Rtief tiled with the district court of appeals ap-peals today an appeal from his, conviction convic-tion and sentence for bribing former Supervisor Su-pervisor Furey to vote for a trolley franchise fran-chise for tho United Railroads, It Is one of the longest statements ever presents! to the court, containing 12.000 pases, included in-cluded In twenty-four volumes. The entire en-tire trial Is reviewed, and many alleged errors are pointed out as grounds for a reversal of judgment and a new trial. Ruef. who was sentenced to fourteen years' Imprisonment, now Is at liberty on ball. |