Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1906 — MAYOR OF FRISCO IS INDICTED. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

MAYOR OF FRISCO IS INDICTED.

Schmitz and Hnef Charged with the Extortion of Money. The San Francisco grand jury has indicted Mayor Schmitz and Abraham Rues for extorting money from certain French

restaurants. Warrants for the arrest of. both men were issued. Under the California law any person convicted of extortion shall ,be punished by imprisonment not exceeding five years. There is no escaping with a fine. A press dispatch says that everybody expected the indictment of Abe Rues. The action of the grand jury in including Mayor Schmitz took the

city by surprise. There were five counts in each indictment and all were for money extorted from French restaurant proprietors. Two were for extorting money from Antonio B. Blanco, proprietor of the new Poodle Dog restaurant, which before the fire was a blaze of light every night in the center of the Tenderloin at Eddy and Mason streets. The indicted men are alleged to have secured $1,175 from Blanco in January, 1905, and SI,OOO in February, 1906. The third and fourth counts were for obtaining the same amounts from Joseph Malfanti, proprietor of Deimonico’s restaurant in O’Farrell street, and from his partners, Charles Kelb and William La Frenz.

MAYOR SCHMITZ.