CONTENTS

Chapter Page
I.The Union Labor Party Movement[11]
II.The Ruef Board of Supervisors[22]
III.The San Francisco Ruef Ruled[30]
IV.San Francisco After the Fire of 1906[49]
V.Graft Prosecution Opens[73]
VI.Ruef’s Fight to Take the District Attorney’s Office[87]
VII. Oliver Grand Jury Impaneled[96]
VIII.Ruef Loses Fight for District Attorney’s Office[107]
IX.Ruef and Schmitz Indicted[110]
X.Fight to Evade Trial[121]
XI.Ruef a Fugitive[130]
XII.The Trapping of the Supervisors[139]
XIII.Confessions of the Bribe-taking Supervisors[154]
XIV.The Source of the Bribe Money[168]
XV.Ruef Pleads Guilty to Extortion[186]
XVI.Schmitz Convicted of Extortion[208]
XVII.Schmitz Ousted from Office[215]
XVIII.The Real Fight Begins[240]
XIX.The Glass Trials and Conviction[269]
XX.The Ford Trials and Acquittals[279]
XXI.The San Francisco Election of 1907[300]
XXII.Higher Courts Free Schmitz and Ruef[320]
XXIII.The Defense Becomes Arrogant[335]
XXIV.Jury Fixing Uncovered[357]
XXV.The Shooting of Heney[370]
XXVI.The Calhoun Trial[388]
XXVII.The San Francisco Election of 1909[405]
XXVIII.Dismissal of the Graft Cases[425]
XXIX.Ruef’s Last Refuge Fails[440]
XXX.Conclusion[455]

APPENDIX.

Judge Lawlor’s Ruling in Motion to Dismiss Graft Cases[i]
How the Supervisors Were Bribed[vii]
Gallagher’s Order Removing Langdon from Office of District Attorney[xii]
The Ruef “Immunity Contract”[xix]
“Immunity Contract” Given Supervisors[xxi]
District Attorney Langdon’s Plan for Reorganizing the Municipal Government[xxii]
Roosevelt’s Letter to Spreckels on the Graft Situation[xxv]
Governor Johnson’s Statement Regarding Ruef’s Imprisonment[xxviii]
Schmitz’s Attempt to Control San Francisco’s Relief Funds[xxxiii]
Receipts and Disbursements of the Graft Prosecution[xxxiv]