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Updated: June 3, 2025
"There are strong political forces on each side ... but the story goes that Colonel 'Montezuma' Burns is jealous of Ruef's overtures to workingmen. So he's ordered the Governor to make a grandstand play." Stanley looked at his son in astonishment. He was not yet nineteen and he talked like a veteran of forty.
Tears were streaming down his face. He began to read in sobbing, broken accents. The crowd was so thick that Frank could not get close enough to hear Ruef's words. It seemed a confession or condonation. Scattered fragments reached Frank's ears. Then the judge's question, clearly heard, "What is your plea?" "Guilty!" Ruef returned.
Ruef's trial went on with renewed vigor three days after the attempted killing, though the defendant's attorneys exhausted every expedient for delay. It was a case so thorough and complete that nothing could save the prisoner. He was found guilty of bribing a Supervisor in the overhead trolley transaction and sentenced to serve fourteen years in San Quentin penitentiary.
Famous lawyers found themselves in high demand. From New York, where he had fought a winning fight for Harry Thaw, came Delphin Delmas. T.C. Coogan, another famous pleader, entered the lists against Heney in defense of Glass. Meanwhile the drawing of jurors for Ruef's trial progressed, inexorably. Several weeks passed. Politics were in a hectic state, and people grumbled.
There was a dauntless quality about the man, a rugged double-fisted force which made him feared by his opponents. Frank Stanley looked in at the second Ruef trial. He found it a kaleidoscope of dramatic and tragic events. Heney, who had been the target for a volley of insinuations from Ruef's attorneys, was nervous and distraught.
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