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ment resulted, and in two subsequent
trials Ford was acquitted

| ulals ford was acquitted.
Ruefs trial upon one of the 50
called trolley indictments was com
menced on August 27 1905 Ther,
was an Interruption of several day.
subsequent to November 13, whel
Francis j. Hency was shot down ii
the court room by an ex-convict VIII,
subsequently committed suicide IN
the county Jail. and three volunteer
prosecutors took up the case. which
ended on December 10. 1908, when q
jury returned verdict of guilty. or
| December 30, Ruef was sentenced
| fourteen years in San Quentin peni-
| tentiary and sine then has been con
| fined in the county jail, awaiting ac-
tion ON an appeal to higher court.
| The prosecution. during the several
! trolley trials, has attempted to prove
| that Calhoun, on the day following
| the final passage of the permit, sent
from New York to the mint in this
city. 100000, which he previousl,' !
authorized the mint officials to pay
to Trey L. Ford The money, as Is
admitted, was withdrawn in three in
stallments by Ford, who presented
orders signed by Calhoun. 1t was al
legged by the prosecution that within
a few days after each of Ford's visits
to the mint, he received a call frola
Ruef.
Following this theory. James l..
Gallagher. chairman OF the supcrvs-
ors, testified that Ruef had paid him
over $4,000 in July and an equal
amount in the following month. CAT
lagher declared that he had retained
$4,000 for himself. had paid $4,000
to Andrew NJ. Wilson. one of his lieu
tenants, and had given $4,000 to each
of the other supervisors. 1t was af-
firmed by the prosecution that Rucf
and Schmitz divided the balance of
the fund amounting to about $1l5,-
900
The specific Indictment upon which
Calhoun was tried was the offer of a
bribe of $4,000 to Supervisor Fred j.
Nicholas, to influence his action upon
the trolley permit. Nicholas, called
as the first witness, admitted accept
ance Of the money for that purpose !
Since the trial commenced great !
number Of rev issues more or less
important, have been presented for |
the jury's consideration.
In March, when the trial was nearly
.wo months old, warrants were issued
ior the arrest of several men charged
With stealing documents from the Of
lee of William j. Burns, special agent
II the district attorneys office. The
ist of defendants. headed by M. NJ.
Abbott and Luther G. Brown, included
Rex Hamlin, secretary to Burns, and
hree other of Burns assistants who
confessed that they had given pr:-
ate reports. letters and kilograms tot
Tohn II. Helms and the agents of the
Jnited Railroads.
on Saturday ana SUNDAY, March 26
nd q. the offices of Abbot Brown,
"a houn and Mullaly We're raided by
he police upon a search warrant Sc
ured by Burns, who professed to have
that the men named were
n possession Of the stolen papers.
afes and desks were forcibly opened
4 the presence of protesting attorneys
nd officials and documents to the
umber of 1000 were seized and de-
evred into the custody of the pole
Idge who granted the warrant. Be- !
IRE the raiders had completed their ]
Isk, attorneys for the United Rail :
Dads. secured and served an injunc- +
on forbidding further search. !
Another order was secured to for -
id the police judge opening the seal n
packages, and after two days of y
rgument, Superior Judge j. f Muir a
sky took under advisement an appll a
ttion for an order adjudging Assis Y
mt District Attorney Francis j. He
~ and two detectives who partici- n
lted in the raid. guilty of contempt r.
court. f,
No end of complication has been 81
eated through the activity of private S,
,tectives several of whom are ad- "
itted to have been privately in the p
nploy of one side while secretly fur al
shing information to the other. cl
A fortnight was added to the length w
the proceedings by the testimony of II
hn H. Helms, once a detective in the | 50
1ploy of the United Railroads, who
rs later secretly added to the force ID
Burns to obtain evidence of alleged
egal activity on the part of United hi
Ailibhu d5NllNs &c
Helms testified that he had paid Sc
att and other Burns men TO secure III
pers and had turned them over to by
lbott Prior to his appearance as a dc
tness. he charged, several attempts
re made to prevent his testifying for We
2 prosecution. Another Burns agent 70
oduced in court sums aggregating G'
so, which he alleged had been paid tn
II by Luther G.. Brown to betray at
'rets of the district attorneys Of NJ
e. one of the witnesses called dur Vi
the trial was Rudolph Spreckels.
'sident of the First National bank, tel
o instituted the graft prosecution ly IN
dertaking to pay the expenses in lol
we'd. The testimony presented an
WED that fund of S2S4.000 had IN
m raised and expended. and Mr.. ou
'eckels' accounts, voluntarily pro- sh
,ed in court, showed that he had ne
approximately $4,000 of I'M
total. so'
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