The San Francisco call., 1908-08-07
EXPOSE GREED OF
WOULD BE JURORS
ThOrOughness of Burns Men Is
Shown in Contempt
Proceedings
Abe Ruef's Lawyer Is Startled
by Methods of Graft
Prosecution

The innermost wheels of the detee-
tive machinery of the graft prosecution
revolved in plain sight for a time dur
ing the Burns contempt hearing before
Judge Lawlor yesterday. Startled at
the thOroughness of the methods Of
the Burns men, Ruefs attorney, Henry
Ach, eagerly sought to delve deeper
into the secrets of the prosecution, but
he was brought up with round turn
by the court who refused TO order
witnesses to produce private reports
demanded by Ach.
Baffied and disheartened at the close
or the day after the disclosure of such
appalling rottenness on the jury panel
AS TO more than justify the measures
undertaken, Ach was about TO give up
the fight. But he finally took courage
for one last effort and ordered batch
OF subpenas issued for all the Venire-
men who had been approached with
the anti-prosecution petition which is
the issue OF the case. These number
score or more, and probably all day to-
day viii be taken UP in their examina-
tion.
Secret reports by Burns detectives on
l6 citizens whose names were in the
great jury box were introduced in evi-
dence after vociferous demand by Ach,
but without order of the court In
nearly every instance these reports
quoted conversations Of the prospective
jurymen in which they condemned and
cursed the graft prosecution and lauded
RUef Schmitz, Calhoun and the higher
ups"
Here is one of them, quoted YER
batim:
Sidney Kahn. florist in Ellis street near Fill
more. Tried 70 qualify In the Ford trial, and
owing 10 his contradictions Mr.. Heney threat
ened TO have him up for perjury. / talked to a
Mr. Jones In kahn's store this morning while
Kahn was being examined on the stand Jones
only the night before kahn had told him what
q wad he could make if ne got on the jury.
R. c. S.
The rest of the reports were equally
enlightening. The names of the men on
the jury rolls who had denounced the
graft prosecution in a similar manner
included the names OF some who served
in the Ford and Ruef trials. They were
as follows.
W. ,. swift 1890 sew Newton G. Cohn. 1861
entl avenue 0ctaFia street
Henry Ranke, 1925 Sidney Kahn, Ellis and
tennessee street Fillmore streets
". q. Blecher, 220 Charles A. Dumont
Hale street 1909 Powell street
Marks Christensen. 35o James Guilfoy. 952 Cspp
william i.eyerone. l2O4 Harry Berg. 2so4 Bush
Railroad street
Morris klein. lbs Ken H. G. Gordon. 443 Cali
lucky street fornia street
Nathan Edlin, 5S2 Cas- Cornelius Rodden, 721
iro street NatOma street
Alexis J. Ehrman. 260i Antonio FigOne. 1926
Jackson street Stockton street
The witnesses on the stand yesterday
were j. G. Lawler, r. c. Schindler and
James Foley, Burns men, and Jacob
Goodman. who testified to signing one
Of the petitions circulated by Lawler
Ach and Heney clashed repeatedly
during the day, with Burns occasional
ly putting in a word. Both Burns and
Heney dared Ach to place them on the
stand, threatening to reveal evidence of
jury fixing and an incident of at
tempted bribery involving Ruefs law
yer and former Police Commissioner
Poheim. Ach retorted by calling Heney
names
The regular Ruef trial went over to
Wednesday to be finally set for trial.