Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-09-18


vestigated the matter. The evidence
Grafton that he would not give them
away. There was nothing direct against
the Chief. All the testimony he cot was
simply ipsinuations against the Chief dur
ing this present term OF office. 1t was not
sufficient to present charges upon and
he would have made charges ii only one
man had come forward and given direct
evidence. But none came. His per-
sonal relations with the Chief had been
most pleasant. They had squabbles in
the Board, but that was ALL
Mr.. Sinsabaugh asked Mayor Work.
man what he had to say about the charge
of insubordination.
Mr.. Hanley said he noticed that Mr.,
Sinsabaugh hung upon the word insubor-
| dination, but two weeks ago not one
word was said about it and the thing
had happened four months ago.
Mr.. Sinsabaugh then asked Mayor
Workman if Chief Cuddy had ever re-
fused to obey an order of the Board.
Mayor Workman replied that he had.
Chief Cuddy asked him to relate the
full circumstances.
Mayor Workman said that the Board
had passed an order to the effect that if
an officer saw gambling going on he
| should call another officer and raid tho
game. Chief Cuddy at that time said
that the Board could pass as many orders
OF that kind as they liked, but they would
not be carried out. He had explained
that to carry out orders of that kind
would tend to demoralize the force and
might leave portions of the city unpro-
tected.
Mr.. Sinsabaugh asked if Chief Cuddy
had obeyed the orders OF the Board.
Mayor Workman said that he had in
certain things. The Mayor had found
that he couldn't suppress gambling until
he had placed officers on special duty in
Chinatown. An order placing the officers
in Chinatown had been signed by him
self and Mr.. Humphreys. but the Chief
refused to sign it. The Chief, however,
ordered the men to go to Chinatown
The worst feature about The city was the
"Mac" or ''pimp" business. An order
had been passed two or three weeks ago
that the Chief of Police prosecute the
"Macs" but not a single arrest had been
made so far as he knew.
Chief Cuddy asked the Mayor as to
how the city compares at present with
other administrators.
The Mayor said that it compared very
well-very we'll, indeed
He believed that if the Chief was in
earnest he could drive the "Macs" out
of town. He found fault with the Chief
on the "Mac" business. A disrerutable
man was arrested and there were officers
on the force who testified that the "Mac"
was a hard working man. Detective
Lynch said he had testified in the case
and would testify tomorrow the same
way. What he had said was true.
Mayor Workman said that man
named Abbott had been arrested and an
other officer came forward and swore he
never heard or knew of him being in a
house of ill fame.
Mr.. Humphreys asked Mayor Work
man if Mr.. Marsh was on the force with
the approval of the Board or whether
Chief Cuddy wanted him.
Mayor Workman said that the second
time he was put on it was at Chief
Cuddy's solicitation.
Mr.. Chandler asked for information, if
there were three on the Board who ought
to be responsible for the force, the ma
jority or the minority.
Mayor Workman replied, the majority.
Mr.. Chandler then asked how Chief
Cuddy could be held responsible if the
majority Of the Board was responsible.
1t had a strange look to him.
Mayor Workman, in reply to Chief
Cuddy, said that he did not know that
the Chief had placed any man where he
would do harm to the city. The Chief
simply placed men in positions that the
Mayor would rather have had in other
places.
Captain Barrett asked if there had not
been men put on the force who were not
friendly to Mr.. Cuddy, and who were
working against him?
Mayor Workman replied that men had
been put on the force to whom Chief
Cuddy had objected.
| Captain Barrett asked Mayor Workman
if in his investigation he had found suffi-
cient evidence against Chief Cuddy to
warrant him in preferring charges?
| Mayor Workman replied that he had
had found nothing on which he could
bring charges against Chief Cuddy.
Mr.. Humphreys wanted to know
whether the Mayor had not found that
the Chinese games were paying money ?
Mayor Workman said that he had Wis
tied the games, and Chinaman had
told him that 33 games were paving $50
per week. He could not find bit Of evil
dence, however. that Chief Cuddy had
ever received one cent.
Captain Barrett asked whether an or
der had ever been issued requesting
Chief Cuddy to turn over the gambling
to the Mayors detectives.
Mayor Workman said he did not re-
member it.
Chief Cuddy produced copy of the
resolution and said that when it was
given to him he had taken it to his attor-
ney and had been advised not to obey it.
Chief Cuddy called Officer Boiler, who
had been detailed for Chinatown worR.
His instructions were to pull all games.
He never knew which game had paid
money or not. He pulled all he could
get into, and never saw any money paid.
IS Officer Mckenzie said [he was in
structed to raid every game he came
across, and he did it.
Officer Mccarthy had been instructed
to pull every game he came across. Lie
had raided seven or eight games, and did
not know which games were paying.
One officer had come to him and offered
him money. He had informed Captain
Loomis of the matter, but the trap set
did not work.
Officer Boland had orders to arrest any
game he could get into. He never heard
of money being paid for police protec-
ton, but had been satisfied that money
was Maid tO Ona man IN protpct tho ar-