Show RUEF JURY SPLIT VOTE STANDS SIX TO SIX san francisco may 21 after being out for forty three and a halt balf hours the jury in the trial of abraham ruef rue f tho the former political boss of san francisco and central figure in the th bribery graft prosecution against whom whole sale indictments were returned has failed to agree upon a verdict and was discharged at 5 this afternoon by judge maurice T dooling the specific charge against ruet ruef in the trial just closed was the offer of a bribe of 1000 to former supervisor jennings phillips to influence his vote favorably upon an electric railway franchise applied for by the parkside realty company the jury which went out at tuesday night stood 6 to 6 upon the first ballot and remained so without a change during the thirteen ballots taken it was learned that the question upon which the jury split spilt was the credibility of the witnesses fourteen members of the so called Bood lins 1 board of supervisors of ther schmidt administration testified to the offer of bribes their willingness to receive the same and their actual acceptance of money in some of the others cases against ruef six of the jurors it is said considered the supervisors as accomplices who had been gran granted teil immunity by prosecution the and contended throughout the deliberations of the jury that as such their uncorroborated I 1 testimony was not entitled to credence there still remain indictments pending against ruef |