Note 105 — Chapter VII · Oliver Grand Jury Impaneled.
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While the crowd was pressing into the room, a deputy sheriff undertook to search Heney for concealed weapons. Heney complained of the officer’s conduct, protested vigorously. “That is the man standing there,” cried Heney, “he did so at the request of Abe Ruef.”
“Who was informed that Mr. Heney was armed,” responded Ruef.
It developed that Heney was not armed, and the incident went no further. But it indicated the sharpness of the division between the two factions.