Show ABE RUEF WANTS SUPREME COURT TO FREE E HIM boss boas grafter files another application for writ of habeas cor PUB pur he says that his detention by bellso bagg biggy I 1 is a illegal and that he Is being Crul yand unusually punished qan san fran francisco cisco april I 1 on the e e of his trial on oil the tile charge of extorting from french runt rant keepers of this city which is te to be begun tOr tomorrow morning before buege dunne in ill the superior court I 1 abraham ruef today asked the supreme court of california to free hm lim from the custody of baisor biggy and order him into the charge of the sheriff whom judge dunne purine disqualified on n thu ground of personal interest ruef by hla his attorneys ach and A murphy h y bled in the higher court an a application e a for a writ of habeas corpus eo so extensive in allegations arguments and citations of authorities that it occupied twenty one typewritten papos s and embraces sixty two subdivisions sub divisions huet ruef sets hie his Imprison imprisonment me nt dc detention and court aliment of liberty by elliber baggy in the house no as 19 Fill fillmore moro street are illegal his case in court for four months prior to march 4 and that on that dale daie being indisposed he to visit the trocadero a suburban resort and arid there recuperate beblav ine ing on the advice of his counsel that hh his presence in court was not required owing to an appeal taken by um lim to the supreme court of the united e I 1 rates by means of a writ of error granted by superior judge hebbard that he was there arrested with nut legal right that he has applied to judge dunne for admittance to bill ball and been refused that he Is 42 yoaw years of age has lived in san francisco I 1 au 11 I 1 his life has been engaged in iho ho practice of law for twenty years int in t 1 has bua largo large business interests at stake that ho he jle s constantly and minutely watched by eight private guards ara the court elisor all of them be arliff arilis I 1 firc firearms arms all of them employed by rudolph spreckels francis J ellenp and arld wm 3 J burns and antl all of the paid out of a private fund of oot raised an and guaranteed by sarec kei kela that his indictment by the grand july was instigated and caused by spreckels Spi eckels echels honey and burns that sp eckels hency heney and judge dunne ere pre his political enemies that ao io blet Is the espionage maintained over him by his guards that it Is im T possible for him to have privacy even in conversation with his attorneys ex capt by whispering softly that he has lias complained to judge dunne through his counsel and been refused acro 11 liberty erty that persons who are are to be the fifth and eighth amendments to tho the constitution of the united ad aed of section six of article one of tile constitution of california reter refer rang to ball and to cruel and unusual punishment that he lie la is being cruelly and unusually punished he asks tn lc be discharged from the custody cc rf the elisor on reasonable ball and to tu be then ordered into the file custody tit if the tile sheriff and that lending the aleal hearing of this petition an order of 0 the chirt be made directing the elisor to permit any one person at a time to visit and talk to him within reasonable hours and to permit any person perso n to visit him upon written order orb oc hi is attorneys and to permit him to eon cn suit atilt freely and arid openly with bis his aubr outside of the hearing of eller birey and his guards the sti preme court took no acton upon the application today not evea ever issuing an alternative writ i edwin T earl owner of th the e lo 10 los a angeles evening express and dr 11 haynes president of the civil service commission of ios angeles and ct of the direst legislative league of california were among those who presented themselves today for inter rogation by the grand jury both had been without the knowledge of assistant district attorney her heney herey ey according to a statement b the prosecution and dr haynes had lid been subsequently excused by wiro but the telegram did not reach him mr earl and dr haynes came early in the day to tho office of mr leeney and an d had a private interview with him at its conclusion dr haynes was ex c ased from attendance on the grind jury and mr earl was requested to remain and testify inasmuch as he s a director of the western trust company the log los angeles corporation which was for the purpose of underwriting the bonds of tha ova home telephone company of san P lancisco mr heney said 1 I excused mr haynes because 1 was satisfied he knew nothing whit alyc r of the affairs under I 1 investigation n v I 1 asked mr earl farl to ap appear p ear bo cacao baese I 1 thought he be might be able t crift enlighten liten th the jury on certain home telephone company matters I 1 aver ward learned that mr earl had n no knowledge at all of wrong doing in connection with either the trust company or the home Tl ephone TIe company pany he answered anew ered readily tha the questions put to him in the jury room but he could add nothing to the investigation vesti gation because he knew know nothing the rist gist of mr air earls before the inquisitorial body was thit ho he bad had been advised by the adans adams phillips company of los angeles to sube subscribe cribe as a first class investment to the of san francisco home rome telephone company bonds under written by the western company that he did so and was elected a director of the latter corporation that ho together with dr haynes lucille cochran stenographer ste 4 grapher to ge G es hatton atton II stuart gayness a local news z 1 ew pare par erman and mr stice stace assistant general manager of the pa cefic status telephone Te ephone company iho trial of 0 libet ruet on the extortion charges cli arges Is unless the program be ab raptly changed at the last moment to begin in judge dunnes depart department departie me to lt of ot the superior court at 10 to iatrow morning it is estimated oy us co conniel kinsel that ten days or even tv beeks will be taken up in getting a jury J dry attorneys ann anh fairall farrall and murphy will appear fur for ruef ach being authora authority ty for the statement made tonight that no ad optional olt dl ional counsel will be engaged tho tt leemen will be by auh ach of these there are nineteen from tin oie 60 drawn by judge dunnes order the other having haying been disqualified or excused judge dunne can either draw additional panels from the hundreds of uncalled names on tho the register jury list or he can order tho the elisor to bring in a special venire from the county at large DI birlat Ai AL torney langdon and special prosecutor hiram hirani L johnson it Is understood will appear for the people As session one of the notebooks of hal akl former stenographer and a type written transcript ot of its contents he would not discuss tho the matters contained or give any information as to their importance to the grosu pr osea tion witnesses in his defense are not permitted to visit and converse wah wl 1 him hini in the preparation ot of bis his defense defeno that he lie ig Is compelled to sleep steep in a bedchamber occupied by guards and wherein lights ar are kept burning all night right that he lie is practically in a staw of solitary confinement not evon his ills attorneys being allowed allame d to visit him hial at the discretion or 0 the elisor that mit he be Is being punk punished hed imprisoned and humiliated before trial tria 1 and that h hf cannot properly prepare his defense defens under existing conditions of confinement ul ent that all this is being done lor for be ie express purpose of hindering and hampering himself and his counsel in ia the preparation or of bis his defense that he Is fr not held by lawful authority TI arldt at he Is held without ball on the ground that his trial has as begun tin under der w ebion 1129 of the penal code which vlola tive of aj is unconstitutional aud and arid forty one other stockholders has thiis far paid on demand thirty per cent of his subscriptions in two ill installments stall ments of 15 per cent each ono one in april and the other la in december 1907 the total thirty per cent payment of all the forty three stockholders being that ho he attended only wily oab directors we geeting weeting etIng which was held iq may of and that he lie ie is wholly ignorant of 0 the wrongful nae lise of funds in any of 0 the matters mattero under investigation or to be investigated before mr earl left the witness ss ntina this unusual dialogue happeney hap penel between betwee nEarl earl and heney mr earl mr air heney Is it not a fact that you have told me more about this affair of the home tecc teio phone company than I 1 know before I 1 came into this room mr heney that is correct air bir eail are you satisfied that I 1 know nothing of df the affairs you havn havi questioned mo me about mr heney herley entirely 11 mr earl will you so state to the press mr heney 1 I will air sir ilta pleasure othor other witnesses examined by the branti jury today were hartley patr an attorney with george botlon general counsel for the homa r telephone campit company py of 0 oakland kland elsi e district 1 attorney heney ro with the grand jury c sessions are not to be suspended during the progress of trials ig irom indictments returned talt juede chal aks is entitled to ton peremptory y challenge 11 s jhb Prose prosecution culon to acs five ilal kither either side aa can allonge tale sillen t tor r c cause juse without limitation th abe a alar y buco or denial dil of 0 the challenge rest ing with the court SPID special CIal agent burns for the prose announced toa today the receipt of f 0 V a cablegram sta stating ting that theodia Theod iQ halsey indicted on ten counts 1 I bribing supervisors in behalf of he pacific states telephone compa company ily wl wt start for san francisco f turn rayj manila april apr 11 9 on the steamship china ina in charge of captain trow trony the illse bridge chief of the secret service for philippines he lie Is due to b he early in may alay the trials of supervisor nicholas nichola janitor dufty duffy and nathan adler he the antler I 1 aher the proprietor of a french restaurant tau tou caurant rant charged with DOUY DO UY conspiracy al artt t extortion on have been contin by 1 judge budge will dunne for two weeks chrt follow t the he ruet ruef and mucea on the calendar mr heney the started a sen satir a after newspaper men unlined immediately late b by grand jur jury Y ressia aking that he had fr in his |