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The San Francisco graft trials were a series of attempts from 1905 to 1908 to prosecute public officials in the city of San Francisco, California, for graft and other political corruption. Among those implicated were Mayor Eugene Schmitz , political boss Abe Ruef , and various members of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors , all of whom had ...
Francis Joseph Heney (March 17, 1859 – October 31, 1937) was an American lawyer, judge, and politician. Heney is known for killing an opposing plaintiff in self-defense and for being shot in the head by a prospective juror during the San Francisco graft trials.
Political boss Abe Ruef (left) on his way to San Quentin State Prison after he was convicted in the San Francisco Graft Trial of 1907–1908. In October 1906, Ruef ordered that District Attorney William Langdon be suspended, had himself named in Langdon's place, and as his first order, dismissed Langdon's deputy, Francis J. Heney. [7]
Schmitz' "Shoot to kill" order at the Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco; 1907 editorial cartoon from the San Francisco Examiner; Photographs related to the San Francisco graft trial, 1907–1908, The Bancroft Library "Schmitz, Eugene F." . Encyclopedia Americana. 1920. biography portal
The "Big Four" graft prosecutors (left to right) Frances J. Heney, William J. Burns, Fremont Older and Rudolph Spreckels. Original Bank of Pinole building Graft trials begin in San Francisco against mayor Eugene Schmitz , members of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors , and attorney and political boss Abe Ruef , who were receiving bribes ...
Graft trials begin in San Francisco against mayor Eugene Schmitz, members of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, and attorney and political boss Abe Ruef, who were receiving bribes, and business owners who were paying the bribes. (prosecutors pictured) Concord and Richmond are incorporated in Contra Costa County
Political boss Abe Ruef of San Francisco on his way to San Quentin State Prison after he was convicted in the San Francisco Graft Trial of 1907–1908 Mayor Eugene Schmitz , president of the Musician's Union, was chosen by political leader Abe Ruef to run for mayor as a front for the Union Labor Party in 1901.
Shortridge acted as Abe Ruef's attorney during the San Francisco graft trials. [1]Shortridge was a presidential elector in 1888, 1900, and 1908. [2] He lost the 1914 U.S. Senate Republican primary to veteran congressman Joseph R. Knowland, who was defeated in the general election by James D. Phelan.