The San Francisco call., 1908-03-15

was endeavoring to put US in a false
! light.
URGED USE OF RUFF
Finally. when Ruef was placed on
the witness stand. we urged Heney to
use Ruef in rebuttal, notwithstanding
the fact that we had learned that Ach
made the assertion ltuef-s testimony
would not hurt Schmitz and that Ruef
would save him. Mr.. Heney then gave
me a number of questions and re-
quested me to call on Ruef and have
him write his answers to these ques-
tions in his own handwriting. / did
SO and returned them to Mr.. Heney-
When Ruef was brought to court on
that occasion. he requested an inter-
view with Mr.. Heney. but the latter
declined to have anything to do with
| him and placed him on the witness
stand without talking to him. Ruef
was very much frightened while on
/ the witness stand He subsequently,
stated that he was afraid some person
! in the gallery might hurl brick at
| him. I continued to urge Ruef to tell
1 the truth in the other cases. especially
/ the United Railroads case, but we
were unable to make any headway
whatever. DR.. Kaplan worked night
and day with Ruef in an effort TO have
! him tell the truth.
In the meantime, / learned that
George Keane was acting as a spy and
go between, as was also Cert, and ]
insisted that Cert be denied admission
/ to 2S49 Fillmore street, and this was
done. ] also endeayored to have
Keane excluded, but could not do so,
/ because of the claim that he was act
ing as Ruefs attorney. l learned posi-
4 lively that Keane was a spy and go be-
4 tween for Ruef and the United Rail-
roads through the office of Louis Hoef-
Ter. / never informed Ruef, however.
just how Keane was communicating
with the United Railroads until jan
/ uarv 19, 1908. l was at the Temple
Israel with District Attorney William
| H. Langdon. and Ruef was there also
and was about to enter Department No.
6 of the superior court for the purpose
of moving the withdrawal of his plea
of guilty. Mr.. Langdon and myself
stopped TO talk with Ruef for a. few
| minutes, when I again upbraided Ruef
| and repeated that Keane was a go
between for him and the United Rail-
| roads. Ruef again denied it and 1 then
4 told him that he was communicating
with the United Railroads through the
| office of Louis Hoefier. Ruef said he
| was going to see Keane at once TO have
him deny 1t, but as he did not return
to where he left me standing. follow
ed him into the courtroom and found
/ him sitting with heane, but he said
nothing more about the matter.
NIETo LACKS INTEREST
Some time during August. after, DIR.
| Nieto returned from Europe, 1 saw
him at the Temple Israel. We had a
conversation about Ruef in which /
stated Ruef was not telling the truth,
that I was satisfied we would never be
able to get him to tell 1t. DR.. Nieto
at this time did not seem TO take much
interest in Ruef and seemed to agree
with me in everything l said. and
stated he had done everything he
! could; that if Ruef failed to carry out
his agreement he had nothing more TO
say in the matter.
! Some time later. however DR.. Nieto
| seemed to have his interest in Ruef re-
| awakened.
Finally. on about September 20.
Henry Ach, Rabbis Kaplan and Nfeto,
4 called at the onice of Mr. Heney to
E ascertain what Ruefs status was with
the prosecution. / have read that por-
tion of Mr.. Heney's at.davit commenc-
ing on page los and ending on page 17s
and know the same to be true as there
in stated.
i l had fully made up my mind that ii
would be impossible to get thes truth
from Ruef and knew positively that he
was deceiving US and was dealing with
:. the United Railroads and discontinued
my visits to him altogether after the
i first Ford trial and Informed Mr.. Lang
dom and Mr.. Heney of the situation,
and stated I thought it was useless TO
bother any further with him.
Just prior to the first trial of Tirey
l.. Ford. Ruef informed me that he
would refuse to testify in that cause
unless the eytortion case 305, and also
the bribery cases were dismissed prior
to his taking the witness stand. l Inn
mediately conveyed this information to
Mr.. Heney. who requested me TO go
back and tell Ruef ito go to hell and
to tell him some other things the Ian
guage of which / do not now recollect
but which were to the effect that Heney
would rather lose the case and all the
other cases than give Ruef complete
immunity and that he did not trust
Ruef and would not be bulldozed by
him.
PLOT TO kIDNAP RUFF
About July. 1907, l learned that Lu-
ther Brown. the chief of the Calhoun
detectives. had entered into a con-
spiracy to kidnap Ruef their purpose
being to take him into one of the
mountain counties and there keep him
until the United Railroads cases were
resident of Newman. California. and
former deputy sheriff. man who was
noted throughout that section of the
state for his bravery, was selected by
one of the cohspirators, Jim Mcdonald
to assist. Mcdonald had been in the
employ of Luther Brown and the United
Railroads from the inception of the
streetcar strike and pretended to be
in deep sympathy with the carmens un-
r. hpi a ha~ ~
their union. We have evidence that
Mcdonald is the man who melted all
the depredations that were committed
against the United Railroads. and
that he suggested. the dynamiting OF
the United Railroads property in order