Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1889-10-16
NEWS ABOUT TOWN.
George Hazards Smooth Rec.
ord in This City.
AGUIRRE'S FRUlTLESs TRIP.
Hazards Many Misdeeds, and the
Reason He is Not Coming
Here.


It is several weeks since Sheriff M. g.
Aguirre left this city in company with
bis Chief Deputy, Martin Brady, on a
secret mission. The HERALD at a very
early day learned where the officers had
gone and what their mission was, and
one OF it's reporters held several conver.
sations with those Interested in the
matter in order to be ready at
the proper time to tell the whole
story. 1t was we'll known that
these interested parties we're in part dis.
posed to drop the whole business and let
the culprit 60 scott free. 1t was a we'll
assured TACT that the Sheriff had diff
cult duty to perform, and that any
newspaper utterances might make the
tssk more difficult. Knowing this, the
HERALD has carefully refrained from
mentioning the affair in any way.
LAST nignt telegram was received in
this city which makes silence 40 longer
at all desirable.
A very large number of Los Angeles
psople will readily recall an old lame
soldier named George Hazard, who
spent two Or three years in Los Angeles.
He had been severely wounded in battle,
end moved about the city on two sticks.
He made a pretenee, il not an effort, to
earn livelihood as a book agent His
books were all of q political or military
stamp, biographies of some noted general
or campaign lives of national candidates.
Hazard was a Union army man, aud
belonged TO the same regiment as the
late j. @. Byram Of this city. He and
Byram were wounded in the same battle.
II is whispered that while Haz-
ard was an ardent Grand Army
man in general, he at times pre-
tended to have been in the Confederate
army when such pretense might help
bim &long in the world. 1t made little or
no difference to the man what were the
politics of the book he hawked, and in
the last national campaign he sold as
many if not more lives of Harrison than
he did OF Cleveland, albeit he made
great pretenses while in Democratic
circles of being one of the unterrifed from
center to periphery. The man who knows
which ticket Hazard voted is in possess
zion OF profound secret. But all these
things fall within the limits of things
legal according to the statutes OF this
Stale. All George Hazards acts were
not SO, and that is why Aguirre and
Brady went to Seattle.
Some time last spring Hazard went to
4. number of friends and told them he
had o number Of lives Of John Q. Ere.
mont at the express Office OF which he
had to pay $500 before they could be
delivered to him. He stated that the
books were all sold, and that Byram
held the contracst. He promised to
take the books to Byram's office
and deliver them there to the subscrib-
ers. Byram te take in all the money, pay
thoes whose names were on the note the
Gum each ones proportion would come
to, and tAen Hazard would get what was
LETT. Hazard was smooth talker, and
soon invegled half dozen of the
shrewdest men in the city to 60 on his
note for $500, which Major Bonebrske
duly paid him. That was the last heard
of Hazard. The note came due, and
some Of the endorsers went and paid their
pro rata Of the debt, and made mental
vow to go on another note about in 1909.
The others did not pay, and it was at the
instance of some of these that Aguirre
went to Seattle, whittier Hazard had hied
him, to bring him back on charge Of
|swindling. Some of those duped
did not want Hazard brought back.
They locked upon him as q miserable,
unfortunate fellow, and the fact that he
had been soldier created sympathy in
the hearts Of all the old soldiers, whether
they wore the blue or the grey. There
were other influences to bear also to get
him off.
But the Sheriff and his deputy made
the journey to Seattle, and in no time
found Hazard. He had been cutting a
big swath up there in politics. The Dem
ocrats of the burned city of the Sound
had elected him the Treasurer OF the City
Central Committee, and as such he had
the sack. In the heat of the campaign
Hazard talked much, as was his
wont. He made all sorts of
extravagant estimates of the Dem
ocratic majorities in the pending
elections. When asked to hack his
opinions he did so freely-with the funds
of the committee. The voters did not
back Hazards views, but voted like
wild fire for the g. o. p. that prefers
Tanner to eurplus. Hazards bets held
to that sad end, for the Democrats of the
Phoenix City OF the Sound had no money
on election day, Hazard had so backed
his opinions with it.
Chagrined as the managers Of the
party and the defeated candidates must
have been, no one thought of molesting
the smooth article yclept George Hazard.
He was the hero OF the hour ia spite of
the crushing defeat of the party.
Aguirre reached Seattle, and any child
could have told him where Hazard was.
The lame treasurer on tive sticks was as
we'll known as the devil in that guies
would have been. The Los Angeles
Sheriff put him under arrest, and served
his requisitions on the authorities. For
few brief houre the book agent was put
in duress, but his luck and his cheek
stayed with him. He got out writ of
habaas corpus, and was brought before
the Court. Aguirrs told the tale of woe
of Hazards victims in Los Angeles, and
the Court thereupon remanded the cul-
prit to the custody of the officers. Here,
according to all precedent, the matter
ought to have ended, and Hazard should
have proceeded at once to this
Angelic City to face his accusers. Here
is where last nights dispatch comes in.
Instead of accepting the seemingly inev-
liable and coming on quietly with Aguirre
and Brady, the book agent, with accus-
toned "gall," took an appeal to the Su-
preme Court of Washington on the
habeas corpus case, and pending the
hearing and decision in the higher court,