Show mUff SENTENCED TO JAIL fOR FOR- 14 YEARS r SA SAX FRANC FRANCISCO Dec Dee 30 Four Four Four- teen seen years in the penitentiary the maxi maxi maxi- mum sentence pr provided for bribery of i ii a supervisor was the penalty met meted d out but night to Abraham who for four our y years ars directed the political ll d des des- S. S of San Francisco as adviser iser of fhe th administration of Eugeno E. E I former mayor of the city cit Judgment was pronounced at tho the close if tf f a da day ofed de to legal battle battle whore whore- rn n the tho defense sought to introduce many Reasons for a now trial When Jud Judge o William P. P Lawlor I had denied this ind ind other motions involving delays delay the Defendant i ant arose at the tho co courts court's rt's command j- j rADd nd stood unmoved through tho the recital V lf if judgment There was no demonstration tion ion on oil the tho part S of the spectators during I the Ithe proceedings in m n tho the court room nor later later when Ruef having haying entered tl the e 1 prison van in the custody of a deputy sheriff st started in on onI n his n r rI I j ride ide to tb the county jaiL county jaiL Before the adjournment of court noI no- no i I ilca ice of appeal had been filed on behalf of the defendant and tho the court had 1 signed ned a writ of probable cause which will vill act as is a a. stay of execution in the case In tho trial that was prolonged prolong d. d Ti a period of nearly four months mon Ruef wa was con convicted on December 10 of bribing John J J. J Furoy ro- ro roa a former supervisor supervisor supervisor super super- visor to favor the award o of an over over- overhead lead head h trolley franchise to the tho United This Thi was WM one ono of indict- indict meritS returned against Ruef by bv tho the Oliver grand jury which heard tho the confessions con- con sessions of ot sixteen supervisors who admitted tho the acceptance of bribes in several overal matters involving in public service ice corporations One of the many incidents that tended tend tend- i ed to make the trial of Ruef remark remark- i able ablo was J the tho shooting of Assistant District District Dis- Dis Attorney Francis J. J H ney by byI I t Morris Morns Haas Hans an convict ex-convict whose pastI past I I record ecord was exposed b by the prosecutor I after tho the be would slayer er h had d been accepted aei ac- ac j i as a a. member of the jury in int t a second trial Haas Haag subs subsequently l suicide in in the tho county nail Jail I |