Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-02-22
NEWS AROUND TOWN.
A Pomona Lawyer Charged
With Bribery.
A sACK-sEWER's PREDICAMENT.
He is Charged with Adultery by an
Indignant Husband-Other
Interesting Events.

Yesterday morning Deputy Constable
Lee Rogers returned from Pomona &C
companied by H. B. Westerman, ar
attorney, whom he arrested upon war
rant charging him with having, on the
9TH inst, offered to bride a witness.
Westerman was taken before Justice
Lockwood, where he was arraigned and
placed under bonds in the sum of 81 500
to appear for examination next Tuesday
Westerman is alleged to have "corruptly
and feloniously offered to w. B. Nolan
bribe of $3.50, with intent and upon the
understanding and consideration that he,
the said W. B. Nolan. should immedi.
ately leave the county of Los Angeles
and State of California, and thereby
absent himself from attendance in the
Recorders Court of the city of Pomona,
in said county and State, and thereby
withhold his true testimony from the
court and jury on the trial of the case
entitled The People of the State of Cali
fornia VS.. John L. King, charged with
keeping a place where spirituous liquor,
to- wit, 'whiskey,' was sold, contrary to
the provisions of ordinance No. As of said
city of Pomona, and in which case the
said w. B. Nolan was material wit
nesB."
For some time past the citizans of Po-
mona have been very much exercised
over the local option question, and in
spite of the fact that the Prohibitioniste
carried the day and obtained the passage
of ordinance As, prohibiting the sale oi
intoxicants, the opinion of the iDhab-
itants of the. inland town seems to be
about evenly divided. Several hotel and
saloon keepers have been arrested under
the new ordinance, and John L. King
the proprietor of Kings hotel, was one
of the victims. The Prohibitionists raj.
lied together for the prosecution, and w.
B. Nolan was one Of their witnesses.
When the case came to trial, it is said a
band of twelve women, appointed by
the extremists, repaired to the Methodist
church and after spending several hours
in prayer for the success of the prosecu-
| ton. adjourned to the court room and
applauded the oratorical efforts of the
prosecuting attorney, while they groaned
the defendant, pleaded the cause of his
| CltOhts AAtoI UhO tIl6t VI mix Wd6 COLu
pleted rumor was circulated to the effec
that Nolan had skipped the town, anc
this was subsequently found to be cor
rect, as the witness for the prosecution
could not be found upon the calling Of
the case against second defendant.
King WAS convicted, but the trial
of George Smith, of Browns hotel,
resulted in a disagreement of the
jury, and their consequent dis.
missal. whereupon one of the Prohi-
bitionists, Jonathan Whitcomp, is said
to have come forward with a statement
to the effect that he had seen Wester-
man offer Nolan $3.50 to leave the State,
and pressure was brought to bear which
resulted in the filing of the com plant by
Whitcomb, who came to this city for the
purpose, the feeling being too strong in
the lawyers favor at Pomona.
POMONA, CAL, February 21.-There
have been six arrests of prominent citi-
zens during the past two weeks for COM
plicity in violation of the local prohibition
law of Pomona, and for alleged perjury in
the trial of these cases. The latest ar.
rest is that of Henry B. Westermau, the
foremost young Democratic leader and
leading lawyer, for an alleged attempt to
bribe witnesses in the liquor trials in
this city.