Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1889-12-25
FIVE NEW INDICTMENTS.
The Grand jury Finishes Its Work
and Is DISCHARGED.

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The Grand jury Finishes Its Work
and Is Discharged.
| Elsewhere in the HERALD today NAV
be found complete report of the doinge
of the late Grand Jury as presented in
Judge Cheney's court yesterday. This
body has been in session nearly nine
months. 1t is unnecessary to 20 owe,
the matter summarized in the report, TO,
that reflects fully the acts of the Grand
Jury. Yesterday before presenting theil
final report and being discharged. five
new indictments were filed in open court
The Court set the bail in these and OF.
dered bench warrants to issue for the ar
rest of those charged with felonies. II
is an easy matter to conjecture the
nature of three of these five indictments.
Some time ago Judge Cheney ordered
corrections to be made in three indict-
ments pending against A. A. Montaflo. B.
Chandler and FL. II. Boyce. Of the five
new indictments, three were for
the purpose OF covering the defects in
these cases. The setting of bail was a
mere formslity, as the old bail is to be
exacted as before the old indictments
are dismissed, when the new ones will
take their place. A nominal bail was
fixed in these old cases.
1t is very probable, indeed it is certain
enough to state it as a fact, that the
fourth indictment is against George
Hazard, the fakir book agent who did up
so many people here, and who could not
be brought back from Seattle some
months ago because of the very queer
way the officials of Washington Territory
administered what they call Justice.
Another attempt will be made to get the
slick book agent within the jurisdiction
of Los Angeles county.
The fifth indictment is moro or less of
q mystery. There have been all sorts of
rumors afoat about another blackmaiI-
ing scheme, this one in connection with
the doings of Dude Williams, of unhappy
memory. The dude was very imposing
parsonage, and "played" society wher-
ever he could. Unfortunately, he was
injudiciously and falsely vouched for
here by persons who ought to have
known better. This gave him the entree
into some of the best families in town.
With some he became quite intimate,
one in particular and one of the oldest
and most distinguished of local families.
Here he made the acquaintance of two
or three of the daughters of the
house," charming young ladies in
every respect. Now when the dude
was exposed and his record revealed the
situation was embarrassing to some ex-
tent where he had bsen received in fam.
lilies. The idea is alleged to have seized
upon the minds of certain thrifty persons
connected with the press who thought
| they saw an opportunity to replenish
exhausted exchequers made empty by
the bursting of the boom. 1t is reported
| that the father and brother of the voune
ladies in question were approached with
proposition to pay down certain sums
OF money to have a story suppressed ir
which the names of Williams and the
young society ladies of this angelic
city would play hide and seek tc
the edification of the elums. These
rumors went further and minated thai
500 coin OF the realm was put up for the
proposition and promises made o.
further favors to follow. Then the
parties bled 80 ruthlessly went before the
Grand Jury and told the story. The
result was that journalist of this city
who already has all the trouble on bis
back he can carry, as the story goes, was
summoned before the Grand Jury to tell
what he knew about this affair. If the
street talk goes for anything he explained
of the estimable family in question
that he discovered by accident
that pictorial hebdomedal of the city
was bent on publishing the story with
artistic Embellishments of the realistic
nd fhot nds 1,.t
could prevent this being done, he had
gone to the father and brother of the
young ladies and got the money to pre-
vent the scandal.
Now that is all street yarns, and may
not be worth much, but it is certain, or
nearly so, that an indictment has been
found for the arrest of the editor Of
the pictorial hebd medal. 1t is
decidedly certain that said ed
itor has been absent from this
city for some time, and that but
little more will be known until the
Sheriff shall have succeeded in bringing
back the editorial artist in question.
Carl Brown is at present on his ranch al
| Calistoga trying to put in his spring
crops, and at what date his return to LoE
Angeles may be looked for cannot be
stated with much certainty.
If the absent artist-editor should re-.
turn here and deny point blank that he
or any of his staff had been at all inter
ested in the deal, or had ever received
any part of the 500, then developments
along other lines would follow. 1t i.
quite noteworthy that the artist-edito,
hes not yet been heard from in the
premises, and there is no one here t.
speak for him. He may decline to know
L O n mt him of thin ftnr