The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-11-16

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= oUer4ted. The bullet was .
= n&arithe surface. .
- Mrs. Heney has not left =
. the hospitai since her hus- .
- hxnd was taken there. .
- The removal Of the bullet .
- capsed a general feeling of y
- releE .
- District Attorney Langdon .
Il had 1 long conference with .
- He6sN today. .
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Alie2fng that, the life of Ruef is
unsafe in San Francisco and that
"iercd burning prejudice and bias
exists and which makes it impos-
sible b secure a fair trial in this
city" the defendants attorneys
asked flor a change Of venue when
the TRIAL resumed this morning un-
der a heavy guard. They ask the
discharge of the jury also, which it
took tbur months to secure.
The prosecutors have asked time
to file afidavits in opposition.
Court adjourned until tomorrow
morrihg.
Ma defense's affidavits say that
some Of the jurors heard the shot
that blurred Heney, making it inn
possible for. them to give Ruef a
fair bal.
Thdke twas great rush when
Ruiz &nd his attorneys. entered to-
day. Vef looked straight ahead.
ThA court. room was rallied off
from. The spectators by a stout
fence
The attorneys for the defense
also declared they were threatened
with lynching over the telephone.
Ruef was returned to Jail, nine de-
tectives guarding him.
Immense crowd was in the street
wheH the trial resumed. Detectives
mingled with them, both in the
street and in the courtroom.
Ruef was brought to the court
room in the patrol wagon. His face
seemed to show that he had aged
since the sensational scene in the
courtroom last Friday.
Everybody entering the court
room was searched.
Assistant District Attorney
O'Gara sat in Heney'sp chair, as
sisted by Attorneys Matthew Sulli-
van, Hiram Johnson and Joseph
Dwyer. who volunteered to assist
the state.
Henry Aeh, Ruefs chief counsel,
motioped for a change of venue
and read his affidavits. If the mo-
ton be denied he will ask for
continuance of 80 days, and for a
reorganization of all the jurors.
Attorney ~. b. Cook. who was
taking notes in the courtroom as to
the feelings OF the spectators, was
elected
The prosecutors are comforting
this afternoon to decide how to
combat the latest move of the de-
fense.f q
Detective Burns is preparing to
stir 4 hornets nest by filing
charges against Guards Kelley and
Attridge. who failed to closely
watch Assassin Haas and to pre-
vent his suicide Saturday night.
Buns hassintimated the outcome
viii be charges against Chief of
Police Bigsy, who will be asked
whysah gave a statement declaring
the attempt to assassinate Heney
was Hbt the result of a conspiracy.
BugAs thinks Mrs. Haas passed
the Mvolver with which Haas
killed himself.
Big& insists Haas carried the
gun when he -entered the jail, and
says that Captain Duke failed to
closely search the assassin.
Captain Duke says that it is not
true.
From what l can learn" said
Burns Il am satisfied that Mrs.
Haas passed the. weapon to her hus
band.
.In view of the fact that he kill
ed himself under a guard of men
detailed to watch him every mo-
ment. and after | was denied ad-
mittance by the same men, and
later secured from Haas a confes-
sion directly contradictory to their
reports, the case assumes bad
phase, which demands sweeping
Investigation,
we obtained Haas confession
after the police reported him crazy
That would have ended the case II
the wishes OF the police depart
meM had been carried out
Haas took his life by shooting
himself in his cell in the county
ja!l a few minutes after his ex-