Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-11
SCH.NI7Z is RELEASED
ON $325, 900 BAIL
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pervisors and that he was instrumental
In drawing the affidavits In which Ruef
and the supervisors declared that they
were innocent of crime.
The following is a brief synopsis of
the allegations made by Heney:
That Ruef was never promised
complete immunity from punishment,
but was given to understand he must
accent sentence for eXtortion.
That 1t was expressly stipulated that
no request for leniency would be made
by the prosecution In the extortion case
unless Ruef's testimony proved to be
of as much benefit to the state as
Ruef represented it would be, and un-
less Ruef furnished corroboration for
it; that Supe' isors Wilson and CAL
lagher approached Ruef at the Little
st. Francis hotel and discussed i'm
munity with him without the knowl-
edge or authorization of District At
torney Langdon or Heney; that Rabbi
Nieto declared he believed Ruef should
receive some punishment for his
crimes and that he agreed with Heney
that the district attorney should re-
tain the power to sentence Ruef at any
time IL Ruef failed to keep his agree
ment; that the entrance of Rabbis
Nieto and Kaplan into the case was at
Refused to Consider
That Ruef himself prepared draft
of proposed immunity contract
which Heney absolutely refused to
consider; that Henry l-ch and Rabbis
Nieto and Kaplan held several secret
conferences with members of the pros
ecution In Heney's office; that Ach
freely admitted Ruef had no chance to
-t14f. S.. ne hn htatll
cry cases and urged his client to ac-
cept the best he could get from the
prosecution; that Ach declared to
Heney that Ruef would implicate GER
tain people in big deals of which the
prosecution had no knowledge and spe-
cfically mentioned the names OF
Schmitz Calhoun, Ford and Herrin;
that the habeas corpus proceedings to
determine the legality Of an elisorship
were dismissed because Ruef feared
he would be killed by hired assassins
of the "higher-ups" if placed In Gus
tody of Sheriff O'Neil and withdrew
his petition to avoid this .,ossibility.
That Ruef's first statement to Burns,
supposed to be part of his confession.
was false; that Ruef informed the
newspaper men, the day he confessed,
that he expected to serve a term in
prison; that Heney refused to have
anything further to do with Ruef
when convinced that the latter was ly-
ing, and Heney believed that George
Keane informed SchmitZ of Ruef's
agreement with the prosecution.
Burns to Reply
Heneys affidavit will be followed to-
morrow by the filing of one by Will
liam ]. Burns, the special agent for
the prosecution, who had charge of the
and gathering of evil
dence in the bribery-graft cases.
Burns affidavit will be general denial
of the aggegation made by Ruef and
corroborate Heney in all matters upon
which the latter made averments.
Burns' affidavit will contain about 4O,-
900 words.
Ruef will come up tomorrow morn
ing for trial on another of the United
Railroads trolley indictments. Whether
the court will proceed with this trial
pending decision upon the motion and
affidavits in support for the vacation of
his arraignment and withdrawal OF
plea of not guilty. enabling Ruef to
attack the validity of the indictments
by demurrer. is a matter which will
be determined by Judge Lawlor to-
morrow morning.