The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-04-02
RUEF'S WOES
FILL q PAGES
In His Appeal to Be Committed 10
Sheriff Instead Of EIiSOr, Graft
Master Grows Long Winded

San Francisco, April J. On lie
eve of his trial on the charge or eN-
torting $4,000 from French restau
rant keepers Of this city, which Is TO
be begun tomorrow morning before
Judge Dunno of the Superiof court
Abraham Ruef today asked The 5u.
preme court of California to free
him from the custody of Ellison Buggy
and order him into the ehar2 OF the
sheriff, whom Judge Dunno lisquali-
fed on the ground of personal inter
est.
Ruef. by his attorneys, hlel in the
higher court an application for 4
writ of habeas corpus, SO eNtensh {
allegations and arguments Of aujhot-
tiles that it occupies twenty-one
typewriter pages anl embraces
sixty-two subdivisions.
Ruef sets - that his imprison-
ment. detention and curfailment of
liberty by Elisor Buggy in the hoase
at 2S49 Fillmore street are Illegal;
that his case was in court for four
months prior to March 18th. ana that
on that date. being indisposed, he
concluded 10 visit the TTooadero. a
suburban resort and there recuper-
ate, believing on the advice Of his
counsel that his presenses in coart
was not required owing 10 an appeal
taken by him To the Supreme court
of the United States, by means o. Il
writ of error granted by Superior
Judge Hebbard; that he WAS there
arrested without legal right: that he
has applied to Judge Dunno FOR adj
mittance to bail and been refused
that he is II years old, and has lived
in San Francisco all his life has
been engaged i'll the practice of law
for twenty years and has large b1si-
ness interests at stake: that 20 is
constantly and infinitely watched hy
eight private guards and The cchIt
elisor, all of them bearing firearms,
all of them employed by Eudol III
Spreckes. Francis ]. IIener aad
William J. Burns and all of them
paid out of a private fund of $780,
600 raised and guaranteed by Spreck
jury was instigated and caused by
Spreckels. Heney and Burns: that
Spreckels. Heney and Judge Dunno
are his political enemies; that so
strict is the espionage maintained by
his guards over him that il is i'm
possible for him to have privacy even
in conversation with his attorneys
except by whispering softly: that he
has complained TO Judge Dunno and
through his counsel and been refused
more liberty; that persons who are
to be witnesses in his defense are not
permitted to visit and converse with
him in the preparation of MS de-
Tense; that he is compelled 20 sleep
in bedchamber occupied by guards
and wherein lights are kept burning
all night that he is practically in a
state of solitary confinement. not
even his attorneys being allowed 10
visit him, except at the discretion of
the elisor; that he is being punished,
imprisoned and Inundated before
trial, and that he can not properly
prepare his defense under existing
conditions OF confinement. that All
this is being done for the express pur-
pose of hindering and hamperine
himself and his counsel in the pfepa-
ration Of his defense; that he Is not
held by lawful authority; that he is
held without bail on the ground that
his trial has begun. under section
1929 Of the penal code which is I'M
constitutional and violative Of the
fifth and eighth amendments of the
constitution OF the United States and
of section Of article / of tho consti-
tuition of California referring 10 bail
that he is being cruelty and unusual
ly punished. He asks TO be discharg-
ed from the custody of the elisor un-
der reasonable bail, and to be then
ordered into the custody of the sher-
if and that pending the hearing of
this petition an order Of the court he
made directing the elisor to permit
any one person at a time to visit and
talk with him within reasonable !