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Show RUEF'S ATTORNEY IS FREED FROM JAIL SAN FRANCISCO, April 13. The District Court of Appeals has freed Attorney At-torney "Samuel M. Shortridge from the contempt order and jail sentence imposed im-posed by Superior Judge Dunne. Justice Jus-tice McFarland announced that the State Supreme court will not make known before next Monday its decision in Abraham's Ruef 's application for release re-lease by habeas corpus from the cus-today cus-today of Elisor Biggy. Judge Dunne reiterated his total lack of confidence in the Sheriff and the Coroner to honestly summon a fresh venire of talesmen to complete the Ruef trial panel, and adjourned ad-journed court until next Monday, to give the defense an opportunity to prepare pre-pare counter-affidavits in support of its objection to the disqualification of the Sheriff and the Coroner. . Attorney Shortridge of Ruef 's counsel, coun-sel, more than a month ago was declared de-clared guilty by Judge Dunne of contempt con-tempt of court, and ordered confined in the county jail twenty-four hours, because be-cause after repeated admonitions to sit down he persisted in objecting to a question asked of Coroner Walsh during dur-ing the examination of that official incident in-cident to bis sworn declaration that he the Sheriff having been disqualified, was unable to find and arrest Ruef, a fugitive from justice. |