Arizona republican., 1908-12-09
THE STATES
 WITNESSES Bitterly Attacked by ACh RuGRS Chief Counsel THE WHITE SOULED RUFF
The Victim of a "Dastardly Plot" by Men Who Would Ride to Power Over His Ruin. The Case May Reach the Jury Today.

San Francisco, Dec. S.-A merciless arraignment of James L. Gallagher and Andrew NJ. Wilson. chief witness es for the prosecution in the trial of Abraham Ruef on the indictment for bribery. characterized the opening portion of Henry Ach's address for the defense today Acting under orders of the court, the police confined the number of spectators to the capacity of the courtroom. The indications are that the case, which has now lasted over 100 days, will go to the jury late tomorrow afternoon.
 MT Ach was vehement in delivery and eloquent in his address. After speaking for two hours, he became so exhausted as to be obliged to ask the court for an announcement of the us- ual recess.
 In the course of his remarks. MT. Ach Said: "I do not know that the eyes of the people of the United States or California, or San Francisco. are upon your verdict, nor for the pur- poses of this case, do you? If you were to be handed a petition of 50OO0 people demanding that you return a verdict within twenty-four hours or have your home and your little ones burned. you would be able to appre- ciate the position of counsel for the defense. You owe the people nothing more than obedience to law"
 The speaker charged that the pros ecution was actuated by the personal ambitions of Francis J. Heney and Ru- dOlph Spreckels, whom, he said. were willing ito ride into power over the dead body of Abraham Ruef.' He ad- vised the jury strongly against the in- fluence of public clamor.
 Mir Ach repeatedly accused Gala gher and Wilson of perjury. and it was evident that his appeal would be made on this ground rather than upon a dissection of all the testimony in the case. Of Gallagher. he said: MT Heney was too able an advocate to permit an extensive cross examination of Gallagher, and he was wise not to permit the defense to uncover the souls of such men as Gallagher and Wilson. Gallagher. a master mind, TO- tund well fed. we'll educated. aspiring to a place on the bench where he could review the decisions of men like Judge Lawlor. was nothing more than a limb of the prosecution-why, a parrot could do as well after the ten lessons that Gallagher has had in public. to say nothing of the coaching he has had from Burns and Spreckels.
 And Wilson. after he had testified five times, when he had found that .l.r gl sion and snare. when his testimony did not meet with the views of Heney and the district attorney when he had been three times indicted, when he hal a term of forty-two years in the peni- tentiary hanging over him, when he found that the lions maw could not be filled with what he knew, then he changed his testimony; then he fell in line.
 "Ruef is a victim of a dastardly plot. supported by the debauched and per jured testimony of Gallagher and Will son. After your verdict is rendered. and after you jourymen are discharged, I am going to ask you whether or not you believed these witnesses of the prosecution
 MI Atu uttldlth that NTttlldf lltl anu Wilson still enjoyed the fruits of their briberies in which they admitted be- ing engaged, and he said the only req son they had not refunded the thou sands of dollars they had taken was that nobody had asked them to do so.
 You have spoken six hours and twenty minutes, MT. Ach l congratu- late you upon your achievement
 Your honor. I could talk for six hours and twenty minutes more"
 This comment of Judge Lawlor and the reply of the chief counsel for Abraham Ruef ended a remarkable test of endurance on the, part of Mir. Ach, who. beginning this morning, stood all day before the jury that will tomorrow night receive for considera- tion the evidence and argument for and against Ruef on the charge of bribing former Supervisor John J. Furey in the award of the overhead trolley franchise to the United Rail roads.
 Ach's attack on the testimony of former Supervisors James L. Galla- gher and Andrew NJ Wilson constitut- ed the most vehement portion of the address.
 In this connection, he said: What Gallagher said on the stand is willful, deliberate perjury. Where is the dog, the common old mongrel cur, whose life you would take on the testimony of such men as Gallagher, Wilson and Furey? There has been more misery engendered, there have been more in tl,r a-ff mony of such accOmplices than I could recite or enumerate to you in the time allotted me"
 Of Special Agent William J. Burns, whom he charged with procuring the evidence of Aleck Latham, MT. Ach said: Away with detectives who come to the community and cause murders and suicides. Away with detectives who assassinate character; who build up reputation with the blood and lib-