Show I STRIPES FOR RUH RUEF I LAST HOPE OF FREEDOM FREEDOM FOR FORMER POLITICAL BOSS OFSAN OF OFSAN OFSAN SAN FRANCISCO GONE Must Serve Fourteen Years In Penitentiary Penitentiary for His Part In the Looting of the City Funds as Supreme Court Refuses Rehearing San Francisco What What appears to tobe tobe tobe be the last hope of Abraham Ruef political political po po- po- po i boss bass of oC San Francisco during the regime of Mayor Eugene of escaping his sentence of fourteen years in San Quentin was dissipated late Tuesday when the state supreme court vacated its recent ord r grantIng granting granting grant grant- ing Ruef a rehearing It was this order which resulted in inthe the introduction in the state legislature legislature legisla legisla- ture at Sacramento Sacramento of a resolution providing for for- foran an investigation of the methods of the the supreme court In in granting Ruef was convicted on one of the seventy odd i indictments charging bribery of supervisors returned during during during dur dur- ing the bribery graft investigation in 1907 financed by Rudolph and conducted by Francis J. J Heney Honey and William Villiam J J. J Burns During Ruef's trial Special Prosecutor tor Heney Honey was shot and dangerously wounded by Morris Haas an con ex vict whom Heney had exposed wh when n nhe he was drawn on the jury panel A Afew Afew Afew few days later Haas Hans committed sui suicide suicide sui- sui cide in the county jail Heney's place was taken by Hiram W. W Johnson now gover governor or of California Califor Califor- nia and after a delay of several weeks the trial was resumed with Ruef's conviction as the outcome After spending many months in the county comity jail Ru Ruef f w was was' admitted to bail aggregating nearly a quarter of a million mil mu- lion dollars Ruef Rue was taken to the county jail at midnight |