The San Francisco call., 1909-05-07

time being and Abbott was temporarily
excused from the witness stand.
During the continuation of Abbott's
direct examination by Assistant Dis
trict Attorney O'Gara yesterday MORN
ing the witness admitted that Calhoun
had been engaged in preparing the bull
Wark of his defense even before any
formal charges were made against him
by the Oliver grand jury. AT the time
this grand Jury was impaneled Abbott
testified that together with the two
Moores, Garret w. McEnerney, CARRIER
and Cresswell and Tirey L. Ford he
had been retained as personal counsel
for Calhoun.
Abbott corroborated the testimony
of mint officials concerning his visit
with TREY L. Ford to the mint when
the payments of the bribery fund were
made Most damaging from the point
of view of circumstantial incrimination
was his declaration that from the time
the money was deposited in Ford's Of
fee he never saw il again and never
heard anything said as to what became
of it or the nature Of the use to which
it had been put
RUEF'S LAWYER on STAND
George Keane, former attorney for
Abe Ruef and clerk of the Ruef-Schnitz
bodIu VI SuR6ENlSOESs IOllOW6u ADDOIL
on the witness stand. He told of the
passage of the trolley permit and the
prosecution scored another point by
drawing from him the statement that
the permit was put through on the very
day of its Introduction, contrary to
every rule and precedent of the board
1t is argued by. the prosecution that
this was done for the sole purpose Of
avoiding storm Of popular protest
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Charles Hagerty clerk and former
Office boy for Abe Ruef. was one of the
most important witnesses of the day
He told of the visit made by Tirey L.
Ford and Thornwell Mullally to Ruefs
Office in Pine street when the former
boss was temporarily ensconeed in a
kitchen and a bathroom shortly after
the fire. He told of meeting them
in' the kitchen, which he termed the
reception room.'' and of their subse-
quently entering the bathroom, or con
sultation room" with Ruef. He did
not know what was said at this con-
ference and did not see how long the
visitors remained with Ruef.
The famous shirtbox, in which Ruef is
alleged to have carried the 5000 900
Doodle fund from Tirey L. Ford's Of
fee at Oak and Broderick streets to his
own office, came up for discussion
seeing the shirtbox, and said that he
had seen several of them, as Ruef used
them to keep papers in. but could not
remember the particular occasion re-
ferred to. On cross examination an
effort was made to show that Ruef held
many conversations with various per-
sons in the bathroom and that much of
his time was taken up with official
committee business growing out of the
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been used by the defense in argument
in other trials pointing to the
possibility that meetings between Ruef
and the United Railroads officials re-
lated to committee matters and not to
the bribery deal
RUFF RENTS DEPOSIT BOXES
James c. Sharp and Thomas c. Hinch,
respectively the manager and custodian
of the Western national safe deposit
company's vaults, told of the renting
by Ruef of three safe deposit boxes.
He secured the first one on April 26.
1906. the second one two days later,
and the third one on May 25, the day
on which the payment of money is al
legged to have been made to him by
Tirey L. Ford. Charles P. Gale, Charles
+. King, George Francis and Miss Celia
McDermott. clerks in the United Rail
roads law Offices, were called and testi-
fed concerning visits made by Ruef to
Ford's office at various times, both be-
fore and after the fire.
Former Supervisor L. A. Rea was
another witness examined during the
afternoon. He was chairman of the
street committee of the board of su-
pervisors, but his story was different
from that told, by his colleagues, for
the reason that the $500 paid him
from the Doodle fund was not given
in the form of direct bribe. Rea re-
ceived the money June Q 1906, from
Mrs Henrietta Sittenfeld. Ruefs sister.
and at once turned it over to a clerk of
Rudolph Spreckels as payment on a
lease. This was lease for some prop
erty purchased in the name of Kehr-
lein, Rea and Sullivan, and Rea testified
that for this $4,000 Ruef was given
quarter interest in the lease and later
advanced this 10 a third interest.
George Francis of the United Rail
roads legal department was still un-
der direct examination when adjourn
ment was taken yesterday afternoon
and will be recalled this morning.
LABoRER AsPHyxIATED-Joseph A. An
shetz. laborer. was found dead in a gas