Show IS CALLED A PERJURER BY ABE RUEF 1 ex politic political so boss denounces san Francis cos mayor as a sharer in the boodle doodle san francisco francisca itric june 12 this was an in car burning day lay for mayor seated at the counsel table before the altar in the jewish synagogue on bush street he heard abe buet hia ills former political friedl frie nl philosophical guide gulde practically call him a perjurer to the jury and with that same jarv i he lie listened to a scathing denunciation of himself from the lips of prosecutor hiram johnston f and if there was balm for scourged urged feelings in the speech that closed the day the speech of his own attorney barrett he lie took no open heed andee indeed during most af f the to hours a and nd twenty five minutes mr barrett was speaking the mayor wag was cither either glancing in k over the newspapers or buried leop in typewritten pages of testimony mona but no word of the pr prossen prose oseen cn tors address escaped his sensitive ears ruef was pf af course the sensation of the day lay to hear him do one ot two things denounce the mayor asa as a sharer of his french restaurant fees and therefore a perjurer or fall down iown on oil the prosecution bv by ie refusing fusing to testify to anything of the sort more than a thousand people flocked to the bush street temple in tho tile morning and at noon and found seats or standing room in the auditorium that Is judge dunnes temporary court room not a few of thorn were women among them sirs mrs frances sicney wife of the prosecutor she occupied a front row sent in the gallery policemen gereon on guard upstairs and down s stairs to ao preserve order and keep the aisles clear it was their first appearance too once in the forenoon session and lonco again in the afternoon judco dunno dunne threatened to adjourn court to give the bailiff a chance to drive all the spectators out of tho the synagogue it if disturbance by laughter were repeated that eliat was when ruef under cross examina tion said he lie had lad mot met elisor biggy his months long jailer and again when some other bit of drollery appealed to the crowd little enough there was to laugh at all ad day ruef whose appearance on the stand as a witness in rebul tal for jhb prosecution is s now ikc accredited redsted to the tactical enor en or of the defense in ili letting the mayor testify tor for etwas to refute the mayors denials under oath that he lie hal lial participated in reefs fee that the prisoner ex boss bass was called ruef told the jury that thai he went to Sch former residence on fill more street now used by biggy as a jail for ruet and there handed to the tile mayor at stated intervals one half of the fees of and paid him by tile proprietors of the live five foremost of the french restaurants of san francisco before the fire 1 I said gald substantially this mayor I 1 have received the from the french restaurant men and I 1 would be glad to hand you half then I 1 handed him 2500 in currency is the way ruet ruef put it to the tile lury jury this was after defense had exhausted its best efforts to shut both questions and answers out on the ground that the former was not properly rebuttal because in his direct examination no such matters had been broached to the mayor judge dunne decided that the of the question could not be doubted 0 the opening address for the prosecution by hiram IV johnson son of former congressman grove L johnson and one of the foremost criminal lawyers of the state occupied ono one hour and fifteen minutes it was masterly in argument anil and in clo quence mr johnson avoided anything like an attempted resume of tho the evidence in all its voluminous detail he ile selected rather tho the main peaks and steering by them labored to pilot the jury over a short course to conviction I 1 mr johnson was fol followed loved by J J barrett who spoke for two hours and one halt half in behalf of the Jef defense ense making much of the argument that had the court court permitted ruef to tell the whole story he would have testified that the restaurant men came to ruef and besought his services as an attorney and that no s statements tate ments made to or held over them that they would lose their licenses if they did not pay him money and nd that ruefo contention would have been that he lie did not exercise any control over the license board barrett told the tile jury that under the testimony adduced the most that might night be proved was that money was extorted by ruef from tho the fience restaurant men by throat threat to close the bedrooms on their upper floors the indictment commented the mayors mayor Rt attorney torney charges this defendant with extortion of this money by th eat to take away their licenses to sell liquor you cannot gentlemen accuse a defendant of one crime and convict him hirn on another remember that when barrett concluded tho the court adjourned for the day the closing arguments will be made toni tomorrow orrow and the case will probable 3 reach the jury before night |