The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-03-09
THIRD MAN SENT
OUT AFTER RUFF
Judge Dunno lnStructS EIisor to
Bring the Body of Accused
Into Court.
LAWYER ORDERED TO JAIL
SAM sHoRTRIDGE WOULD NOT
KEEP STILL.

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| ham Ruef. the local political boss, \
= who for three days had been in hid y
J Y ing to evade order of arrest is y
= sued by Superior Judge Dunno, was y
= taken into custody tonight at Tro-
| y caderO. a secluded suburban resort =
= near the Ocean Beach. The arrest \
= was made by William ]. Buggy. \
| y eliSor Of Judge DUNES court. and y
= Detective Burns, who is aiding AS y
/ y ststant District Attorney Heney in y
the work of prosecuting alleged mu-- 4
= as gracefully as possible to arrest \
/ = and was brought to the city in an y
= automobile. His custodians stopped \
| = for an hour at the office of Mr.. He !
| = ney while Ruef was left in the au-
y tCmobile under guard. He was later y
] = taken to a hotel and will probably \
= be detained there over night 1t is =
I = said that his captcrs declined to take 3
/ = him to Jail on account of the init l.
! = mate political and friendly relations \
y existing between the sheriff and the +
= prisoner. Ruef will be taken to \
y Judge DUNES court in the morning J.
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San Francisco, March S.-Sheriff
O'Neil and Coroner Walsh having con-
tessed their inability to find, arrest and
bring into court Abraham Ruef, the
I indicted lawyer and political boss who
has been declared by Judge Dunno to
be fugitive from justice. il has de-
volved upon State Senator W. J. Buggy,
local business man and formerly chief
Of police of San Francisco by appoint
ment during the interim between the
administrations of Chiefs Lees and Sui
Ivan, 10 discover the whereabouts of
the defendant in hiding and take him
into custody.
An order to this effect was made by
Superior Judge Dunno late this after
noon. and Mr.. Buggy was appointed
eiisor and sworn in. The power con-
fArTed a.
take the body of Abraham Ruef. de-
PENDANT in the case of the People
against Abraham Ruef for extortion.
and TO arrest and hold in custody said
Ruef until the next session of this
court. when you are directed to bring
said Ruef into the presence of this court
for trial as charged" As elisor Mr..
Biggy has, also. full authority to depu-
tie as many other persons as he may
require to help him prosecute the
search for the missing lawyer, and as
the charge is a felony charge he may
use "all force necessary to effect
Ruef's arrest. RUef's hiding place is
supposed TO be In. or within a few
miles of, San Francisco.
IF can find him. said Buggy, in
mediately after he had been sworn in,
Il will bring him here. That much
you may count on"
Lawyer OFoefeo TO JAIL
This was not the only sensational de-
Nelopment in today's proceedings in the
Ruef case. Samuel NJ. Shortridge, at
torney of record for Ruef, incurred a
severe rebuke from Judge Dunno dur
ing an examination by Assistant Dis
trict Attorney Heney into the incom-
potency of Coroner Walsh-appointed
by the court as substitute for the dis
qualified Sheriff O'Neil-to locate and
arrest the indicted politician. Short
ridge persisted in an effort to enter OBJ
lection TO question put by Heney, and
would not be siienced by the court who
finally adjudged him guilty of con-
tempt and sentenced him to twenty
four hours Imprisonment in the county
Jail.
Shortridge. however. escaped immedi-
ate Incarceration by applying to the
district court of appeals for a writ of
habeas corpus. on the ground that no
contempt had been committed. The
merits of this controversy will be ar
gued before Justices Cooper, Hall and
Kerrigan Monday morning. In the in
term ShOrtridge is at liberty on his
own recognizance.
The ordering of Shortridge to Jail
created a sensation in the city. AS a
lawyer he is well known throughout
the state. To the Associated Press Mr.
Shortridge said:
The action of Judge Dunno is an
outrage, committed not so much upon
myself as upon the legal profession and
the citizens of California. The law ex-
pressly provides that "a defendant has
the right to be heard by COUNSEL and
the objection sought to be made by me
and to which Judge Dunno took such
indignant exception, was offered by me
in the interests and behalf of Abe
Ruef my client. My conduct. instead
of being 'boisterous and offensive as
stigmatized by the court. was precisely
the opposite. was acting wholly with
in my rights as attorney of record for
Ruef."
Judge Dunno said:
'Mr. Shortridge brought his punish
ment upon himself. In the matter of
the examination of the coroner he had
no more standing in the court than the
merest spectator. The examination of
the coroner was not part of the trial
of Abe Ruef, but was a judicial inquiry
by the court to determine whether a
public official had performed his duty.
Mr. Shortridge was in court as legal
representative of Ruef, not of the cor
oner BY his insistent and gratuitous
interruption of that proceeding and his
refusal to observe the silence enjoined
uT,on him by the court, he was guilty of |
conduct both boisterous and offensive, |
ard l ordered him to Jail for contempt"