The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-03-09
PECULIAR TURN TAXES
 ON AT THE RUFF CASE
JUDGE DUNNE ORDERS CITIZEN TO FIND THE DE-
 PENDANT.

Latter's Hiding Place Supposed to be
 Within Few Miles of San Fran
 cisco--This the Only Development In
 Yesterdays Proceedings Attorney
 for Ruef Secures Severe Repremand
 From the Court.
 San Francisco, March S-Sheriff ONeil and Coroner Walsh having con fessed their inability to find, arrest and Ibring into court Abraham Ruef, the 'in- dicted lawyer and politician who has been declared by Judge Dunne to be a fugitive from justice, State Senator W. J. Biggy, a business man, to-day was ordered by Judge Dunne to discover the whereabouts of the defendant in hinding and take him in custody.
 The power conferred upon Biggy as elisor. authorizes him Ito take the body of Abraham Ruef, defendant 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 the court, when you are directed to bring said Ruef into the uresence of this court for trial as charged"
 Ruef's hiding place is supposed to be in or within few miles of San Fran cisco.
 If can find him." said Biggy, i'm mediately after he had been sworn in, q will bring him here. That much you can count on"
 This was not the only development in to-day's proceedings in the Ruef case. Samuel shortridge, attorney of record for Ruef, incurred a severe re- buke from Judge Dunne during an ex- animation by Assistant Attorney Hen ey into the incompetency of Coroner Walsh, appointed by the courst as sub stitute for the disqualified Sheriff O'Neill to arrest Ruef
 Shortridge persisted in an effort to enter nobjection to question put by Heney, and would not be silenced by the court, who finally adjudged him guilty of contempt and sentenced him to twenty-four hours Imprisonment in | the county jail.
 | Shortridge, however, escaped imme- diate 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 gred before Justices Cooper, Hall and Kerrigan Monday morning Tn the l meantime shortridge is at libety on his own recognizance.
 The ordering of Shortridge to jail caused excitement in San Francisco. JAS lawyer, Shortridge is well known throughout the state. The The Asso- ciated Press Mir. Shortridge said;
 "The action of Judge Dunne 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 Dunne took indig- nant exception was offered by men in the interests and behalf of Abraham 1 Ruef. my client
 My conduct, instead of being 'bols- terous and offense' as stigmatized by the court, was precisely opposite"
 Judge Dunne said:
 MT. Shortridge brought his punish ment upon himself. Tn the matter of examination of the coroner, he had no more standing in the court than the nerest spectator. The examination of the coroner was not part of the trial of Abraham Ruef. but judicial inquiry by the court to determine whether a public official had performed his duty. Mir. shortridge was in court as the legal representative of Ruef. not the coroner"