The San Francisco call., 1906-10-30
Heney Has Task on Hands to Clean Out Ruef Jurors
Police Aid Roughs
to Pack Court
for Ruef.
Use Clubs in Clearing
Way for the Claque
of the Boss.

Toughs. professional bruisers and
divekeepers Joined hands with the
police eff San Francisco yesterday in
packing Judge Graham's courtroom
with shouters for Abe Ruef.
The police in many respects outdid
themselves in degrading their uniform.
Never before have they shown such a
readiness to league themselves with
the ruff and scruff of social bitches
in their aim to please a political boss.
They performed their service with
unparalleled success and devotion. it
was unanimously agreed by the Ruef-
ties. and will henceforth go down into
local political history with a name
emulating that of the Muscovite Black
Hundred.
1t was a day of days. No crook
was refused the hand of brotherhood,
providing he was known to be out for
Ruef. and past performances were
charitably forgotten in the zeal to COM
bat the popular outcry against graft
and civic pollution.
No attempt was made to screen what
the police were on hand for With
drawn clubs they formed a Gordon of
repression about the steps of the
Temple Sheriff. Israel, and no one but
an accredited friend of Ruef was al
lowed to pass them that could by any
inversion of authority be stopped.
GLEASON IN COMMAND.
Captain Gleason of the Park Station
was the Trepof of the day. For FORMS
sake Captain Mooney in whose precinct
the temple is located, was on hand to
assist him. There were forty bluecoats
under Gleasons immediate command,
and some twenty plainclothes men and
deputy sheriffs within and outside the
courtroom.
dragons for Ruef and helped in the
assaults made on units of the gather
ing suspected of being opposed to him
and in clearing the way for his claquers
to the courtroom. The discrimination
practiced was as pronounced as it was
unlawful.
Drunkards were allowed to openly
insult Prosecutor Heney, Rudolph
SpreckeIs and others associated with
the graft crusade, but the merest dem
onstration against Ruef was the signal
for the breaking loose of his burly
gendarmes and an indiscriminate use
of their sticks.
The police were on hand an hour be-
fore the time for court to open and be-
gan the work of asserting the crowd
at once. Divekeepers like Matt Tier
ney had open sesame to the court
while other were being driven back
before the hoofs of the police horses,
and in a short time the space in front
of the temple was cleared of every
one but gang of renderloin charac-
ters shouting for Ruef on the opposite
sidewalk.
WHELAN GETS BUSY.
Deputy Sheriff whelan. whose at
tempt to insult Prosecutor Heney in
court last week led to a protest to
Judge Graham, was samong the learly
arrivals, He busted himself getting the
other Ruef deputies Into line, but made
no attempt to become officious.
When District Attorney Langdon ar
rived with Heney two thugs instantly
fell in line after them and stayed close
by while they remained in court. Ru-
dolph Spreckels arrived shortly after,
when the same tactics were pursued.
The presence of these thugs and their
proximity to the three men in court
was generally commented upon, but the
police made no attempt to drive them
out, as they had other presons who
succeeded in getting into court All
three of the thugs have regulations as
mixed-ale bruisers, and their character
is well known to the police.
George Boyne, secretary of the Police
Commission, was among the other
Ruefites on hand lining up the gang
of shouters, but was considerably less
demonstrative in his tactics than he
was at the nearing ldSI WeSk
Swelling the ranks of the pugilists,
diyekeepers and ward heelers were a
half dozen or more keepers of cheap
gambling Joints from the Mission and
other districts.
When Ruef arrived in his green au-
| tomobile he was accompanied by his
| inseparable OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Tim
Riordan and Steve Bunner As he was
mounting the steps of the synagogue
! the crowd which had been driven back
only few minutes earlier, began to
hiss.
CAPTAIN Gleason was ready at once
with an exhibition of his devotion, and
at a signal from him the mounted cops
again charged, with the other bluecoats
bringing up support in the rear and
the crowd was scattered farther up the
street,
SOME QUEER JURORS"
Rueftes continued to slip into the
courtroom in the meantime, the Deputy
! Sheriffs stationed outside shouting
Juror" as each one appeared. The
door would be opened at once and
closed quickly.
Policeman William Monahan dis
tinguished himself by, assaulting a
well-dressed man who was on his way
to the court. The man protested that
he had a right to be present, where
/
club and fists and drove him down the
street.
Long before the nineteen jurors were
/ inside the court the henchmen of Ruef
| continued to fill the place with his
claquers by shouting Juror when
they came to the door. None of these
was refused admittance, and when the
proceedings began Ruefs friends had
possession of most of the available
space in the courtroom, and were the
only spectators allowed to line the
steps of the synagogue and crowd UP
close outside. All others were kept at
good distances up and down the street,
and would every once in a while be
broken UP and scattered by way of di-
version.
George Green, the prize fighter, was
among the privileged Ruef shouters
and appeared to be cognizant of the
advantages he enjoyed over the less
| favored herd outside the courtroom.
When the proceedings ended and
Ruef retired. defeated from fhe court