Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-10-30
Donegan vs.. Hazard.

grew suddenly tired on seeing trans
parency with the words, "vote for Honest
Harry Hazard" l was Disguised, left the
/, procession. went home and wrote an article
for publication exposing this fellow and
showing how he beat the poor laboring men
and others out of ten per cent. of their earn
ings on the l.. A. & s. G. V. r. r. two years
ago.
Before publishing It l Ieconsidered the
matter, and as have been Republican all
my life l concluded to let it drop, as 1t
might hurt some good men on the ticket
whom l helped to nominate. but when L
read his two columns of trash and lies ia the
Times and Tribune (for which he paid the
regular advertising rates, 10 cents line,
or about S75 each) propose to yentilate the
subject for the benefit of the laboring eie-
ment tnaE they may vote this would be Sen.
ator to stay at home, or return to his former
profession of brllwhacking, business 1
think him well fitted for. judging from the
language he used to me in the kepnpi can
Poll e Davis. District Attorney Holton and
about fiftv others, when he tried to bully
and bluff me by offering to bet 300 that he
mac my written agreement 70 pay from r tea tna
railroad company, but dared him to put II
up. About Two years ago =. M. Darcy, q.
McNally aid myself were the three CON
tractors who graded the L. A. ) q. X.
My portion amounted to about $1,000. paid
my labor with railroad time checks, and
Stner creditors, among a whom ovd wsre e Scho c,H
Bros, with orders on Mr. Crank. the Rail-
! road President, but the money was not
! forthcoming aud hundreds of the poor
consequences. We called a meeting to
k,devise means to get our money. There
was great diversity OF opinion as to
the best way. the majority favored
nh In nfIfn In n
proposition from the late Col. ]. F. Godfrey
offering his services to these poor dear la
boring men for nothing. / objected-said
that Was too cheap, and that If we needed
lawyers we would pay them, but so far as
was concerned would not go to law. | al
ready bad reliable legal advice and was
satisfied thai Mr.. Crank was good TO us for
the money, and st that time there was
gentleman here, Mr.. Garland, negotiating
with Mr.. Crank to build the road, and we
were liable to get our money any day.
mentioned this fact to the meeting and sng
gested as the best thing to do WAS To Sc ect
committee to see what could be done and
report the next Saturday night; this was
done, and the three contractor, were Sc ect
ed as that committee. was in favor of go
ing to Brunson, Wells & Lee for advice, as
had been there already about 1t. AT this
time IL. T. Hazard eutered the room and az
pearef greatly Interested in the welfare OF
him to his office and told him all about the
matter. He wanted time to look up the law
told him that so far as was concerned
would not go to law; that was satisfied it
ed that he go and see Mr.. Crank aud get us
our money If he couid. He agreed with me
and said he would go at once. Iasked him
what ne would charge to go. and also to
look up the law that we might be able to re-
port to the next meeting. His answer was
tnat he would not charge us anything; tnat
IL ne could get us our money without law
suit 1t would be pleasure for him to do 1t
you do It for nothing; so II you act you must
\ set price. as we Il meant the contractors)
are not charity. He then said, well, how
}isssGY said so was satisfactory to me, and
that would pay it,.
hThe following afidavits speak for them
STATE OF CALIFORNIA CO
County OF Los Angeles.I 90
D. F. Donegan, after first being duly
swOrn, on his oath deposes and Gays:
ing the Los Angeles and San Gabriel VALLEY
Railroad on or about the 2Sth day of Novem-
Der, 1884, and that In his own behslf and in
behalf OF his co-contractors he negotiated
with Henry I. Hazard. Esq ,for the collection
of their claims against said company, then
amounting to about eighteen thousand dol
lars.
That after first offering his services for
nothing In case collection could be made
from the president, ]. F. Crank, Esq, with
cut suit he finally consented in such an
compensation for all his trouble. which
amount afliant offered to pay him out of his
own pocket. This is the only agreement
made between Hazard and Godfrey and the
contractors. ID. It. DoNEGsN.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
p7th day of October, 1886.
(sEAL) Notary Public In ana for the
County of Los Angeles.
STATE OF CALIFORNIA, ca
County of Los Angeles. 90
P. NJ. Darcy, after first being duly sworn,
That he Is fully acquainted with oil facts
Efs contained in an affidavit made by d. E.
bGp4egan, which is hereuntO annexed, and
fthat he knows the same to be true in every
particular. L. Nj. DARCY.
! Subscribed and sworn to before me this
Il A. KoHLER,
(sEAL) Notary Public.
TO Whom it may Concern:-I hereby certify
that on or about the 2Sth day of November,
n II. I. Hazard s office to confer with him in
regard to the collection of money due the
contractors of the L. A. s. G. v: R. r.
Twas one of the contractors. D. +. Donegan
and p. NJ. Darcy were the other contractors,
and weie on this committee. There was
considerable said during the visit; Donegan
4 did most of the taking for the contractor.
! heard him ask Hazard what he would
3 the railroad company. and dOwhat he could
! to make him p.y us. Hazard answered that
he would not charge us anything II he could
get us cur money without a lawsuit. Done
gan said he would not go to law, and gave
\ many reasons and, also, that he would not
| accept his services for nothing, and that he
! (Hazard) must set price. heard $50 men
toned as the price, and heard Donegan say
| it was satisfactory and that be would pay it
4 out of his own pocket. am under the opin-
ion that 1t was $50 for each of the contract
4 ors. This Is he only bargain know OF be-
ing entered into between Hazard AMI God
. frey and the above. mentioned contractors.
Signed: A. MCNALLY.
4 Witness: &c. McMENoMY
Hazard goes and gets Mr.. f. F. Spence and
I thew drive out to see Mr.. Crank; and Mr..
| Spence. and not Hazard. induced Mr. Crank
TO make the fl st payment OF 5000. Az the
next meeting in Hibernian Hall, made the
report of the committee, told OF our bargain
with Hazard in his presence; he did not deny
it. Col. Godfrey was there, too. He elabor-
ated considerable on Hazards trouble to
make the collection, said he had suffered
much in making the trip to Pasadena In
carriage, and it was cold day. too, (nothing
said abou: Mr.. Spence sufferinJ), and that
now they would keep ten per cent for their
trouble. protested as best could, but to
Later on they forcibly and against my
written protest to Mr.. Crank, collect the
ixt installment, In all about $1,000, and
kepe>ten per cent, altogether about Slo0o;
the exact dluOuut1 uOu kuoW Dc tHCiS Woo
some time checks bought in by the railroad
company. on which don't think they got
the ten per cent. .
Now, | ask the honest voter, was 1t steal?
In my way of thinking stage rObbing would
he respectable iu comparison.
Now, Mr. Editor, If Ihad not already tres
passed on your space too far, would like to
crack some more of his nuts and see how
he would like to chew the meat. Hazard in
his article insinuates that was trying to get
hold OF my money with view to beat my
creditors. demanded my money because
earned 1t, and time and again offered the
First National Bank for Security that
owed, and l did pay all my creditors 100
cents on the dollar; 1t was Honest Harry
Hazard that robbed them out of the 10 per
cent. Aud on the I'd day OF November he
win hnd that they have da't. MT forgotten 1t