Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-28
WANTED, BY
ABE RUFF AN
ATTORNEY
PRISONER TO ASK ANOTHER
DELAY
Calhoun Returns frop. New York and
Demands of Langdon That
His Case Be Set for
Trial
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 27.-Abra-
ham Ruef will plead for further time
when he comes UP before Superior
Judge Lawler at 10 o'clock tomorrow
at which time the date of his first trial
on one of the many indictments re-
turned against him by the grand jury
is to be SCI.
State Senator George B. Keane stated
tonight that arrangements for the ar
ray Of attorneys that will compose
Ruefs counsel have not yet been COM
pleted and that it would be necessary
to again ask the court to grant a rev
days more time to the defendant.
The absence of Henry Ach. retained
by Ruef as chief counsel, who Will not
return from Los Angeles until tomor-
row night or Wednesday, will be an
other reason given to the court by Huet
for asking for further delay.
It is said Ruef is experiencing much
difficulty in obtaining counsel or the
character, ability and reputation that
he desires to have for conducting MS
defense.
While Ruef is endeavoring to gain
more time Patrick Calhoun, president
of the United Railroads, who returned
from New York yesterday, is inslstent
in his demand for immediate trial and
is not agreeable to the new plan OF the
prosecution to try Ruef ahead OF nlrn'
Calhoun Demands Trial
When TREY l.. Ford, general counsel
of the United Railro Dads, was acquitted
in December on one of the fourteen In
dictments charging him with bribery,
Prosecutor Francis J. Heney announced
in court that 1t was the prosecution
intention to place Calhoun on trial next.
When the break occurred with Ruet
District Attorney Langdon decided 10
rush Ruef TO trial ahead of Calhoun.
but the latter declared today that now
that he has returned from New York
he will insist that the prosecution keep
its promises of placing him on trial at
once. District Attorney Langdon, how
ever, is equally determined that RueI
be tried first.
Counsel for Calhoun will again de-
mand that the prosecution fix the date
of the street railway magnate's trial
when the United Railroad cases come
up before Judge Lawlor tomorrow.
Francis ]. Heney, according to Dis
trict Attorney Langdon, is expected
here from Portland some time next
week. Langdon in an interview today
denied the statement attributed to him
that Heney would resign as special
assistant to the United States att lrney
general in the land fraud cases.
Lanedon Explains
'.what I did say" said Langdon,
was that Mr.. Heney at the conclusion
of the case in which he is now engaged
at Portland will devote his whole time
to the San Francisco bribery-graft
cases until they have all been dis
posed Of"
No trace has yet been found of Alec
Latham, the missing witness and former
chauffeur for Ruef, who for the second
time has mysteriously disappeared.
While the district attorney and Spe-
cial Agent Burns openly charge that
either Ruef or the United Railroads
defendants induced Latham to leave
Ruef ridicules the idea and intimates
that the prosecution knows where he
is but does not want him to testify IN
this trial. Ruef declares that Latham
was under the surveillance of three of
Burns detectives and said today that
it seemed preposterous to him that the
young chauffeur should have been able
to fee.