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Died. Abraham ("Abe") Ruef, 71, onetime (1901-07) "Curly Boss" of San Francisco; in San Francisco. From police court lawyer, he rose to head the Union Labor Party, secured the election of a popular musician as mayor, established headquarters in a French restaurant, "The Pup," where he blandly collected huge honoraria from those wanting special privilege. Confronted by evidence, Ruef fled, was caught, finally convicted of bribery. Paroled in 1915 from San Quentin, where he taught Bible classes, he entered real estate, piled up a comfortable legal fortune...
Died. Fremont Older, 78, crusading editor of the San Francisco Call-Bulletin; of heart disease while driving his automobile; near Stockton, Calif. Campaigning against graft in the city government, Editor Older of the Bulletin in 1906 piled up enough evidence to send Grafter Abraham Ruef to jail. Then, believing him scapegoat of a corrupt system, he fought long to get Ruef freed. Older in 1916 started a vehement crusade for Thomas Mooney and Warren K. Billings, during which he accused District Attorney Charles M. Fickert of "framing" the pair and was assaulted by Fickert in a hotel lobby. Refused support...
...John Ruef, a salesman for Peoples Gas Light & Coke Co., sounded an A on his oboe. During the noisy tuning up several of the amateurs nervously knocked the music off their racks. But once under way they traversed bravely the technical difficulties of a Bach Chorale and Fugue, of Brahms's great Fourth Symphony. Violinist Amy Neill, wife of Lawyer Avern Scolnik who fiddled in the orchestra, soloed so expertly that critics complained sincerely about her playing so seldom in public. Wives and families of the players applauded so persistently that portly Conductor Clarence Evans got some real exercise...
...office he was admitted to the bar in 1888, moved to San Francisco 14 years later where he has since made his home. As a young assistant to Francis Joseph Heney, famed prosecutor, he helped drive out San Francisco's ''boodlers" and convicted notorious Abe Ruef of bribery after Heney had been shot in the courtroom. A born crusader, he turned on the Southern Pacific to break its political hold on the State. As a result he and his father were not on speaking terms for over ten years. On the railroad issue he stumped the State...
...Ohio, police commissioner, he gained fame as an amateur detective on local cases, joined the Secret Service as a counterfeiting investigator. But it was Detective Burns's exposures of the Department of Interior's Oregon land & lumber frauds during the Rooseveltian muckraking era, and of Boss Abe Ruef's corruption of San Francisco, that brought him to fame. With a handful of sawdust as his only clew he trapped the Brothers McNamara, later convicted for dynamiting the Los Angeles Times' Building. Convicted of complicity in contempt of court for jury-shadowing in the Sinclair-Fall trial...