Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-01-17
CARL'S COMPLAINT.
He Flies a Demurrer as Picturesque
ma His Garb.


When the case of the people against
Carl Browne was called yesterday in
Department l, the picturesque Carl was
on hand, represented by his scarcely
less original lawyer. Hon. j. Marion
Brooks. Colonel Brooks produced q
bundle of papers and proceeded to read
batch of demurrers to the indictment
which charges Browne with being
guilty of extortion, as the legal phrase
is, or blackmail as the popular word
goes. It will not be necessary to go over
more than one of these demurrers, the
largest of the lot, for the reason that it
embraces all there is in the others plus
q great deal besides.
It sets out with the proposition
now worn thrsadbsre by reiter-
ton in the Montaf1o and Edelman
cases that the Grand Jury was not prop
erly compounded, in that there were in
the body at all times persons not quail
fed to serve, to-wit: w. II. Spurgeon,
o. P. Chubb, Joseph Beach and w. l..
Brown, who were each and all citizens,
not of Los Angeles, but of Orange county.
Spurgeon was guilty not only of being O
plain citizen of Orange county, but he
was Supervisor thereof.
The demurrer then takes up each and
every OF the Supervisors and goes on to
state that the g gentlemen were preiu.
diced against Browne to such degree
that they were utterly unable to give
his case a half fair hearing. W.
G. Furrey, the foreman of the Grand
Jury is alleged to have been SO preju.
diced that he openly declared long prior
to the finding of the verdict that he be-
lieved Mr., Brooks client to be guilty
John Miller, another member of the
GRAND Jury, is charged with plain preju.
dice. Ed. Roth comes under the same
category. w. Pendleton, o. P. Chubb
G. Ganahl, Joseph Beach are all alleged
to have been prejudiced, with no frills
added to the charge. Spurgeon is charged
with being so charged with gall and Bit
teroess that he has for long time past
refused to have convers with the artist
editor, who makes streams run up bill
and who draws reversible landscapes,
according to the canons of criticism
formulated by Ambrose Bierce, a friend
of Carl's. Spurgeon and Browne never
speak when they pass by.
j. M. Hale is prejudiced against
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for such prejudice it is set forth that
Carl denounced Hale as partner in the
racing pools run by Rodmsn.
w. Chipperdale, James Gunner, FL
A. Hunt and John Hanna, are all Sc
forth as prejudiced with no coloring mat
ter put in the picture. Then come
Colonel Oscar Macy, who is charge,
with being q bitter enemy of Carl's
and it is alleged that he grossl,
prejudged the guilt of the artist
Captain George @. Knox come
next in the list. His enmity il
represented as implacable. He bitterl,
hates Browne, because the artist hel(
him up before the public as a corrupt
Police Commissioner, and as beins
"affiicted with the disease known as the
big head"
Isaac Gibbs is charged with prejudice
and as being one of the gang of conspira.
tors to throw Browne down. The list
winds up with Tom Goss, who is charged
with prejudice, with the addition that he
said before the indictment was found that
he believed Carl to be guilty because /.
W. Hellman told him Browne had at
tempted to blackmail him
Nearly all these gentlemen are repre-
sented as saying they believed Browne
guilty, and that he ought to be indicted
on general principles.
The case comes up next Tuesday, at
which date the Grand Jury are cited to
be present and state their side of the