Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1889-11-21
EIGHTEEN INDICTMENTS.
That Is the Count Made by
the Grand Jury.
ONE AGAINST GEN. H. H. BOYCE.
Another Strikes Burdett Chandler
Between the Eyes-The Others
are Montana Chestnuts.

Between the EyeS-Tne UtnefS
are Montana Chestnuts.
The Grand Jury was before Judge
Cheney yesterday, being subp@naed
there to answer Undergraduates of Mon
taflo's counsel. That being done, the
foreman informed the Court that he had
q matter of his own to occupy certain
moments of the Courts time. He was
ready to make a partial report. Il was
decidedly report OF progress. Captain
Knox unlocked his little box and pro-
duced Q pile Of documents, making 9
bundle of papers about the size of the
daily issue of some of the HERALD'f
esteemed contemporaries. 1t was ap-
palling in it's magnificent proportions. II
looked as if the entire community, male
and female, minors and adults, were to
be included in the range of this
legal artillery. When they came to be
numbered in order there were found to
be just eighteen indictments. Expecta.
tion was awake, was abroad already, for
developments were looked for. But this
roll, like that which the wicked King of
Israel burned, in the proportions of
this new Jeremiad, caused expectation
to arise to the full height and to stand
on tip-toe. Who were they all for? And
had the whole decalogue and the statute
law, too, been all broken to smash? After
the numbering had been done; after the
bench warrants had been all ordered to
issue, and there was silence in the air
for few moments significant whispers
began to circulate, which made it posi-
BILE to arrive at some conclusion as to
this long and exciting report.
SIXTEEN INDICTMENTS ARE CHEsTNUTs.
In the first place it transpired that six.
teen of the eighteen indictments were the
old Montai1o- Edelman matters. The
ments to cover up the defects in the old
ones. In Monta1o's CAGE the charge is
changed from forging fraudulent war
rants on the county treasury, to issuing
fraudulent demsnds, or warrants on the
Treasury. 1t is the same old offenee
in a new guise. There have been
four or five indictments drawn against
Montafio for the same offense. When
this action was taken yesterday
and the bail bond fixed in the sum Of
So, O00. which puts the defendant to the
necessity Of furnishing bonds four or five
times over for the same offense, his
counsel came before the Court and de-
manded that the District Attorney
specify under which one of all the indict-
ments he would elect to try their client.
The Court gave the District Attorney
twenty-four hours time in which to
wrestle with this knotty point of law,
and decide under which of all the indict.
ments the culprit was to plead. The
other fifteen legal chestnuts cover the
sases pending against the two Edelmane
for this same matter OF raiding the county
treasury and despoiling the taxpayers by
means of fraudulent warrants. That
ended all quest on the part of the news.
papers 80 far as the sixteen out of the
eighteen indictments went.
THE BLACKMAILERs.
The next thing whispered on the
streets was that the other indictments.
two in number, were for blackmail. Two
for blackmail 1t had been an open
secret for two months that there was to
be one indictment against very
prominent man for blackmail, and this
was the sensation for whose explosion
every ear has been bent for the past ten
days. But why two! Was it double
crime, or were there two Dromios of this
sort come to town? The first case was
easily hunted down. Indeed it was
known before it took place, 30 to speak.
GEN. II. H. BoYCE.
The first story is thus told: 1t dates
back to the dog days, when inc weather
was sultry inthis city and all who could
had hied themselves to the seaside to
plunge in the briny and loll on the sands
to the music of the cad sea waves.
Among the favored ones whose purse
could afford this delightful indulgence
were Justice of the Peace Theodore Saw
age and his family.
It was the 18th of August, and the
witching hour had long time passed
The sleep of the just was enwrapping in
its peaceful embrace the severe man of
law and his charming spouse. OF sud
den came a tapping as of some one
sharply rapping, rapping at his chamber
door. 1t might have been raven, but
it was only Constable Harry Johnston,
of Savage's court, with the sunny light
VI LIS Ulouuo LoCkb, tuht Sfe0t5u the
judges vision as he answered this mid.
night summons. A hasty consultation
made his honor aware of the fact that
the city editor of the Tribune, az the
story is told, o. A. Stevens, had visited
the Constable and told him that the
Tribune in the morning would run a
story not at all to his advantage unless
means were taken to hush it up. 1t was
like John Gilpin's ride, or like that
mounting in hot haste upon the fateful
night of Waterloo. Away went the
horse that bore Johnston and the Judge
back to Los Angeles. The Tribune office
was reached after hard ride in the dark,
and General Boyce was found. He soon
laid bare his little scheme. As he told
the story, some enemies of Savage had
come to him with q story that, if told,
would imperil the family peace of the
Judge. 1t would wreck him financially
and socially. if not politically and totally.
The allegations were that the Judge
q short time before, iorgetful
OF his marital vows, of his
standing as a gentleman, and
OF the dignity of the judicial ermine, had
become very hilarious, and that while in
joyous state of mind, and q state Of
exhilaration OF spirits, had visited one of
the noted naisons dc joie in this city. and