The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-10-27
.LANGDON HOLDS
THE FORT SO FAR
Injunction Saves San Francisco
District Attorney From
Acting Mayor.
SAN FRANCISCO EXCITED
BOSS RUFF IN DESPERATE SIT
UATlON.

! San Francisco, Oct. 26.-After a day
torney Langdon. who was last night
suspended from office by acting Mayor
| Gallagher was apparently in a vic
torious position, and had gained tenn
| pOrary advantage over the city officials
and politicians, whom he has announced
he intended to have indicted for felonieS
and misdemeanors.
Almost at daybreak this morning at
| torneyS representing Langdon appeared
at the residence of Superior Judge Sea-
we'll and obtained an order temporarily
/ restraining Political Leader Abraham
/ Ruef, whom the acting mayor appoint
ed to succeed LangdOn, from interfering
with the officials or affairs of the dis
| trict attorneys Office.
Judge Seawell set the case for hear
| ing one week from today. The restrain
! ing order was served on Ruef and the
| board of supervisors at an early hour
and LangdOn. with his assistant, Fran
els J. Heney, were not disturbed in
their official capacity.
Tried to Search Heney.
The excitement OF the day came with
/ the proceedings this afternoon in the
court of Superior Judge Thomas F.
/ Graham, where the nineteenth and final
/ member of the-new grand jury was
/ chosen, and where il was expected that
| the court would settle the question of
recognition of either LangdOn or Ruef
as district attorney. When the desired
! juror had been accepted, Heney arose
and made objection to the actions of
deputy sheriff who had several times
attempted to search him. Ruef said
that the deputy was acting under his
! instructions, it being Ruef's belief that
/ Heney was armed The court warned
the deputy to cease annoying Mr..
! Heney. Then came the question of rec
! ognition. Ruef attempted to address
| the judge as IAN officer of the court"
but Heney objected to Ruef assuming
such right.
Neither Attorney Recognized.
The silence of the court room intensi-
! fled. for here, it was expected that the
fate of Heney or Ruef was to be de-
cided, but Judge Graham declined to
pass upon the issue saving that he
would not at that time settle the dis
pute, nor recognize any one as an Off
Ger of the court. He refused to hear
any further argument on the subject
Ruef, however. succeeded in obtaining
| permission to speak as an attorney at
the bar. and declared that he wished to
proceed with an examination into the
! qualifications of certain grand Jury
men. Heney interrupted, saying that
the first thing he intended to present
to the grand jury was evidence sup
porting charges of felony and INSIDE
meanOr against Ruef.
Attorney General Appears.
At this juncture another objection
came from L. 5. Webb. attorney gen.
eral for the state, who declared that
/ the court should not permit such state
ments to be made before the grand Jury.
which was present, as it might dis
qualify them, and he aveTred that there
was possibility that they had already
been disqualified. Webb then asserted
that he intended to assume charge of
the matters now before the court. Judge
Graham ordered the jury dismissed
until Monday morning, and Heney
strongly protested against the order.
saying that Mr.. Langdon knew what
matters would be presented to the Jury
in its first hour, and that time would
now be given to bribe certain witnesses
and get them out of the country
Henry Ach, acting as attorney for
Ruef, offered to meet the attorney
general and Heney so that the matter
might be prepared for submission to the
supreme court, but Heney refused. saw
ing that it was his rule never to confer
with men about to be accused. or their
attorneys. Court then adjourned 20
Monday.
Citizens Thrown Out
During all these proceedings and for
an hour earlier a crowd of about 5000
people were assembled. Before court
opened the crowd had packed the court
room and corridors. and big SQUAD of
police was summoned TO eject them
The police did not use the most gentle
methods in performing this task. and
several prominent citizens were rough
ly thrown out into the street in dam
aged condition. Later certain peoDle
were admitted TO the court room until
il was filed, and it was then noticeable
that large percentage of the gather
ing inside consisted of policemen i'm
plain clothes.
thrOng of 1000 citizens remained
on the streets outside patiently. and i'm
an orderly manner. awaiting the result
of the hearing within. When I.angdon
and Heney emerged they were heartily
cheered. A few minutes later Ruef
appeared and was hooted and hisse1
AS he was making his way to mis- anti
mobile, man who had been elected
from the court room attempted to strike
the political leader, but the police seized
him. Ruef was attended in court and
afterward by two detectives from the
Story in Detail
The session of court had been set for .
O'Clock. but long before that hour tho
corridors of the Sheriff Israel. a Jewish
synagogue now occupied as a court house
were crowded almost to SuffOcation and
the building was surrounded by crowd
of citizens. Inside were half a hundred
policemen and detectives. all i'm Main
clothes Their efforts were at first CON
fined to keeping the corridors clear hut
after time they elected from the bailG
ing everyone except attorneys, reporters
and members of the panel Summoned 10
complete the grand jury
The latter were shifted four times. each
time being led into a different court room
The orders for their removal were given
by the police. although the latter would
not state the reason for the freuuent
transfers. Meanwhile the hour for the
converting of court had passed, and it was
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