Boss Abe Reuf In 1908 Abe Ruef, the political boss of San Francisco, was tried and convicted on charges of bribery and influence peddling. Ruef served four and a half years of a fourteen-year sentence at San Quentin. This photo captures a worried-looking Ruef listening to his attorney, Henry Ach, outside the courthouse during his trial.
Courtesy of the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, call no. BANC PIC 1905.02623-A