Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-03

to get Abe Ruef into Jail and we got
nothing but the French restaurant case
and little police case.
well, the supervisors became bood-
1ers In January, February, March and
April, 1906, but we let them remain in
office till we could try Ruef, as we
wanted to follow with the trial of
Schmitz.
"Had we forced them to resign
Schmitz could have appointed their
successors. He had done the same
thing before, when he had placed an
ex-convict from Minnesota in office.
"No man among them would accept
bribe unless it was Gallagher, and
then only If it came from Ruef. So we
let the board stay in office under the
big stick, but allowed it to pass nothing
unless we approved. That lasted from
March to June 13, when we convicted
Schnit8.
when Herrin saw that we would
control the city government, what hap
pened?
Select Committeeman
"Herrin had seven commercial bodies
select a man each for committee. He
wanted us to let the supervisors resign
IL we would let the committee name
their successors.
1T is needless to go down the line
with the members, but they had the
majority of the committee of seven, and
yet Herrin was to give US good gov
ernment!
when the time came to name "a
mayor, the Examiner tried to dictate
the man. When it couldn't, 1t abused
us, and has abused us from that time
onward.
1--WE kept our promise to the people.
1--WE put DR.. Taylor in, and when he
appointed the supervisors we did not
have a word of consultation with him
about it. He made every appointment
of his own choice.
AFTER the election of Taylor we had
nothing more to do with that. we
turned to our prosecution.
"Since the prosecutions have reached
the acute stage, the fight in San Fran
cisco to prevent anyone having over
$4,000 from being punished, and to
send every poor devil with only $100
over the road, this committee of bank
ers and business men is so stron that
Abe Ruef, with his ex-convicts from
the Tenderloin, is not a drop in the
bucket In the effect against that prose-
cution.
Ashamed of Citizenship
'If you go to the court house where
any of these trials is going on and see
the crowd of thugs there, showing SYM
pathy with the bribegivers, you would
ship.
"They mean assassination!
"I don't say this because am afraid
of it. / can afford to be assassinated.
But the people of the state of Califor-
MIA can't afford to have these things
happen!
"A great effort was made to kfdnap
Lonergan the night before he was to go
on the stand in the Ford trial.
with this in view a man was
brought from Chicago to prepare the
way for the job. With him was
woman who passed as his wife.
Took Dinners Together
Nightly they would take Lonergan
to the Poodle Dog and entertain him
at wine dinners.
Another woman was brought from
Los Angeles. 1t was all-important that
the continuity of the testimony be
broken and that could be accom-
plished only b. removing Lonergan.
at was a dastardly scheme. 1t in
volved getting Lonergan into road
house and carry out program that
would result in his being arrested for
criminal assault.
1.-THE plan provided next for the kid
naping of Euef.
"Think of it! They wanted Ruef to
submit to being kidnapped without his
own knowledge or consent.
but Ruef is cowardly and he asked
himself, What will they do with me
when they get me up there? and after
second thought decided that he would
not be kidnapped"
Mr. Heney then told in dramatic de-