Los Angeles herald. [volume] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1890-1893, 1890-10-05
A Challenge Accepted.

EDITORS HERALD: | see IN this morn
ing's HERALD peculiar challenge from
A. A. Montana, ex-county auditor,
which reads as follows: If there be any
person in this county, or elsewhere, who
can present or show any creditable ver-
bal or written testimony connecting me
personally, by the slightest drop of ink,
with any false or fraudulent paper or
county warrant, or with the drawing OF
money or moneys from the county treas
rrer or other officer by any such false
or fraudulent paper or warrant,A then
let him publish it in any newspaper,
and will acknowledge myself convicted,
donate 5000 to any charitable institution
which the party may name, and for
ever hold my peace. l am surprised
and regret that Mr.. M made this chal-
lenge, and accept it in the same gen.
erous spirit in which it is made or
more so.
During Mr. Montafios incumbency as
auditor l dealt in county warrants and
often bought Mr.. Montana g salary war;
rants; number of times he, after as
signing the same to me, went and drew
the money on the warrant himself, and
I found it so hard to get him, to pay it
over that l finally refused to buy any
more of him. After some time he
came and wanted to sell me two months
salary; l refused, telling him l did
not like his methods, and he said he
would satisfy me so as to make it dead
sure" for me to get my coin. Accordingly
drew up orders and assignments for
the two months salary, and in each in
serted guaranty from him that he had
not sold and would not sell them to
another person. Then he predated the
warrants themselves, filled them out,
signed them and tore them from his
stub book and delivered them to me. A
few DAYS after l met Mr.. John Fuller, a
warrant buyer who told me he had bought
Montaho's warrants for the very same
months that had. and showed me the
assignment to him duly signed by Mon
tafio. He and l then went to Hellman' s
bank together and met Mr.. Montana at
the door. He tried to get us not to see
Mr.. Hellman, but we, telling him he had
trihed with us too often, went in, when
to our amazement and horror, Mr.. He'll
man told us he was the owner and that
Montana had sold the same to him also.
So Fuller and l were left out in the cold,
as Mr.. Hellman had the coin in hand,
and we, therefore, had only the things
MT. MOuJdIlO is luuIlHS lOT, IL SeeluS, q
false and fraudulent lot of papers signed
oy him. I don't know what Fuller got,
but Mr.. Montafio claiming he had no
money or other property, was COM
PEELED to take for the most of my 5000
an old piano, and as a result lost near
5000 by the transaction.
Too many Of these 'square deals"
soon landed me in bankruptcy, so that,
/ say. if Mr.. Montana feels bad about
this and wants to waste any 5000 on any
thing, he might 'make things even" by
paying this money to some of the men
who lost by my failure, and thus "help
the orphans" in just if not charita-
BILE way. | kindly warned Mr.. Mon
taf1o then that if he did not quit trihing
in that careless way with the criminal
law that he would ruin himself and be-
cloud all his future, and he is able to
tell now whether was right or not, as
always felt kindly disposed toward Mr..
Montana. Notwithstanding my loss, l
regret to make these things public, and
would not but that this challenge seems
so i'll advised as to demand these "cold
facts" which can readily be oubstan-
tiated, if need be.
Respectfully, G. WHITE.
Los Angeles, October I'd.