The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-10
SCORE OF INDICTMENTS
 PENDING AGAINST RUFF
Trial Was Interrupted by Attempted Assassination of Prosecutor He ney, but 1t Was Resumed
 With New Counsel.

San Francisco, lgecemDeF 5.--A uc SosS ot Abraham Ruef charged with brib- cry of a former supervisor of this city went to the jury at 3:55 p. m today. At 5:45. after having been out two hours and ten minutes, the jury re- quested and was given permission to go to dinner, but was ordered to re- surne deliberations at o'clock.
 Hiram Johnson, one of the attor- neys for the prosecution, who yolun- teered his services after MT. Heney was shot, closed the argument at noon. He charged that Ruef had practical " admitted his guilt upon more than one occasion and maintained that the defense had never shaken the testi- naony of witnesses who charged Ruef with receiving s2oO, 900 from the United
 lways and with giving former Super visor James l.. Gallagher SS5,o00 to be distributed among the members of the board. The instruction of the court occupied but an hour in delivery. Dur ing the first hour of the jury's delib- sel for Ruef, whose efforts in behalf of down the aisle, occasionally stopping to speak to acquaintances and often sinking to his seat, where he appeared bowed in thought, his back turned to the spectators. Henry Ach, chief coun- gel for Ruel, whose efforts in behalf of his client have several times threat ened him with physical collapse, did not appear in court this afternoon, and it was reported that he had been strick en with pleurisy as a result of cold contracted last night after he had completed an address of six hours and 20 minutes.
 Remarkable Trial.
 The trial of Ruef is one of the most remarkable trials in the history of Call ifornia. Both in duration and by req son of the startling and unusual oc- currence that have attended its prog ress. the trial has attained position as the sNst important outgrow th of the exposures of the summer y<z4edenwveul a grand jury, afer hearing the confess sion of 16 members of the board of SUI pervisors returned scores of indict- ments charging bribery Against the pervisors, Mayor E. E. Schmitz and against Ruef and officials of the street railway system, the gas and electric company, two telephone companies, a TSalty COHpany anu u qudItct OA PiiEc- fight promoters.
 Ruef has thrice appeared to answer three of the score of indictments pending against him. In the first case, wherein he was charged with extorting money from the proprietor of a French restau- rant the defendant pleaded guilty. The case was afterward reversed by the high CT courts. In the second trial, upon a charge of having bribed supervisors in the orko Daa ha 1rVd diea ad after several hours of deliberation ''g.-srH Charged With Bribery.
 The pending trial was upon an indict- ment charging Ruef with bribing former Supervisor Furey. It was commenced progress 15o days, of which at least 70 were actual court days. The jury was not completed until November 16 when the trial was 72 days old.
 Shortly after the trial commenced Frank J. Murphy and Adolph Newberg, two of the attorneys engaged In the de- fense of Ruef, were indicted upon charges of attempting to bribe John M. Kelly, q talesman in one of the Ruef venires. E. A. s. Blake, a contractor, indicted upon the same charge, was con- victed by jury and afterward confessed. He Is still awaiting sen- tence and the trial of Murphy, in which Blake was the principal witness for the prosecution, is in progress in an- other department of the superior court.
 The attempted assassination of Francis J. Heney, who originally had charge of the case, was perhaps the most startling outcome of the third Ruef trial. Heney was shot in the court room on the aft ernoon of November 13 by Morris Haas, a liquor dealer who several months ago had qualified as juror and whose record as an ex-convict was exposed by MT. Heney. Haas on the night of November IS committed suicide in his cell by shoot ing himself with a small Derringer, which he is believed to have secreted in his shoe.