The System
- Subtitle
- As Uncovered by the San Francisco Graft Prosecution
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1. Front matter2. PREFACE.3. CHAPTER I. The Union Labor Party Movement.4. CHAPTER II. The Ruef Board of Supervisors.5. CHAPTER III. The San Francisco Ruef Ruled.6. CHAPTER IV. San Francisco After the Fire.7. CHAPTER V. Graft Prosecution Opens.8. CHAPTER VI. Ruef’s Fight to Take the District Attorney’s Office.9. CHAPTER VII. Oliver Grand Jury Impaneled.10. CHAPTER VIII. Ruef Loses the District Attorney’s Office.11. CHAPTER IX. Ruef and Schmitz Indicted.12. CHAPTER X. Fight to Evade Trial.13. CHAPTER XI. Ruef a Fugitive.14. CHAPTER XII. Trapping of the Supervisors.15. CHAPTER XIII. Confessions of the Supervisors.16. CHAPTER XIV. The Source of the Bribe Money.17. CHAPTER XV. Ruef Pleads Guilty to Extortion.[207]18. CHAPTER XVI. Schmitz Convicted of Extortion.19. CHAPTER XVII. Schmitz Ousted From Office.20. CHAPTER XVIII. The Real Fight Begins.21. CHAPTER XIX. The Glass Trials and Conviction.22. CHAPTER XX. The Ford Trials and Acquittals.23. CHAPTER XXI. The San Francisco Election of 1907.24. CHAPTER XXII. Higher Courts Free Schmitz and Ruef.25. CHAPTER XXIII. The Defense Becomes Arrogant.26. CHAPTER XXIV. Jury-Fixing Uncovered.27. CHAPTER XXV. The Shooting of Heney.28. CHAPTER XXVI. The Calhoun Trial.29. CHAPTER XXVII. The San Francisco Election of 1909.30. CHAPTER XXVIII. Dismissal of the Graft Cases.31. CHAPTER XXIX. Ruef’s Last Refuge Fails.32. CHAPTER XXX. Conclusion.33. APPENDIX34. APPENDIX (continued 2)