The San Francisco call., 1908-03-17
ASKS BAIL FROM
APPELLATE COURT
Ruef Turns to Best Friend to
Petition for Freedom on
Bonds

Defeated in his repeated efforts to
have his bail reduced in Judge Law
lor's and Judge Dunnes courts, Abe
Ruef yesterday turned to his best
friend. the appellate court, and through
his counsel applied for writ of ha-
beas corpus permitting his release from
custody on bail reduced to what he
termed a reasonable sum-" The ap-
plication for a writ of habeas corpus
was filed by Attorney Frank J. Muir
ply, but the court of appeal took no
action yesterday. 1t is probable that
the court will make an order today or
tomorrow citing Judges Dunno and
Lawlor and the district attorney to ap-
pear and show cause why such writ
should not issue.
Ruefs latest wall is born of the fact
that he has been unable to secure a
dismissal of bail in all duplicate in
dictments on file against him. or at
least a release on his own recognizance
on the duplicate charges. His bail, as
it now stands, without the French res
taurant cases reaches the total of ST.
100000, and there would have to be a
total justification by sureties of So
230, 600 to secure his release. Included
in the total number of indictments
however, are 81 duplicates which charge
the same crime charged in other cases
These include 9 fight trust cases, ID gas
bribery cases and II United Railroads
bribery cases. and the total duplicate
bail thus amounts to $325,000 With
bail in the duplicate cases removed
Ruef would still have to furnish $685.
600 bail and sureties would have to
qualify for $1,670.000.
DEMANDS BAIL REMOVAL
1t is the removal of bail in these du-
plicate cases that Ruef demands, but
he does not stop there. He asks for
reasonable bail. without specifying
any amount as fulfilling his idea of
reasonableness. This minor detail he
is presumably willing to leave to the
determination of the court of appeal.
Ruef admits in his petition that he is
unable to secure the excessive and un-
reasonable bail now demanded, but
declares that he is ready and able to at
once furnish a reasonable amount
He also admits that he has not exhaust
ed the means of securing such a reduc-
ton by the superior court. as he has
made mo application to Judge Dunno.
but he says that this is because Judge
Dunno denounced him from the. bench
Saturday as the greatest criminal who
had ever come before the court and
because he believes that Judge Dunno
is prejudiced and is his personal enemy.
In his affidavit Ruef tells of his re-
cent endeavors to have the duplicate
cases dismissed outright by Judge
Dunno. He explains that the court re-
fused to act on a request for dismiss
sal last Saturday and that when an ef-
fort was made to renew the request
Monday Judge Dunno paid no attention
TO it. but hurried from the bench to mis-
chambers without formally adjourning
court, merely answering "Oh, pshaw y
to the protests of Ruef's attorneys
HIDDEN sLUR TO DUNNE
There is hidden attempt in Ruefs
petition to attract the attention of the
court of appeal to references by Heney
and Judge Dunno to the recent supreme
court decision brought into this appli-
cation with the very evident intention
of giving the appellate court an excuse
on which contempt citations or some