Los Angeles herald., 1890-08-03
HIS DOUBLE ACT.
In the Prisoners Dock and
on the Bench.
Lockwood Held to
Answer a Criminal Charge,
But He Continues to Hold His
Office.
His Attorneys Go On His Bonds-Public
Opinion Demands His Retirement.
Yesterdays Proceedings.

Justice Savage yesterday morning
denied the motion made by counsel for
w. G. Lockwood to dismiss his case.
The motion had been made on Friday
afternoon, Immediately after the pros
ecution rested, and was taken under adj
visement by the court. In denying the
motion the justice stated that the evil
dence to which he had listened disclosed
first, that felony had been committed
and that the defendant was aware OF it; ;
Damron had been charged with it, and
third, that w. G. Lockwood harbored
and protected Damron after his bail
bond had been declared forfeited and he
had become fugitive from justice.
Mr.. Shinn stated that on consultation
with his client and associate counsel it
had been determined that the defense
would offer no evidence.
The court thereupon held Justice of
the Peace Lockwood to answer before
the superior court as an accessory after
the fact, and put his bail at $4,000. Mr..
Hardesty pleaded hard to have the bail
increased to $4,000, but Justice Savage
said he saw no reason why he should do
so.
Immediately after the parties had
withdrawn from the courtroom District
Attorney Kelly was served with a notice
by Messrs. Shinn & Ling that they
would apply for the discharge of the
prisoner by means of writ OF habeas
corpus. They requested the district at
L. l. e.
the writ could be heard. This request
was disregarded, as Mr.. Hardesty at 2
p. M, filed his information in Judge
McKinley's court.
The time for Lockwood's arraignment
was set for tomorrow at 10 O'Clock.
At the same hour, 7. G. Carran, one
of Lockwood's bondsmen, surrendered
him and he was placed inscharge of
Deputy Constable Johnston, in whose
company he spent the afternoon
hunting a new bondsman.
At O'Clock Lockwood had found
sufficient number of friends to go on his
bond and appeared before Justice Mar
shall in the township justice court with
R. A. Ling, w. H. Shinn and Henry j.
A. Sthur, who qualified in the sum of
$500 each and A. G. Lockwood, father of
the defendant, who became surety in
the sum of $1,000. The bond was ap-
proved by the district attorney and the
prisoner released.
The rules OF the superior court of this
county prohibit attorneys-at-law from
becoming bondsmen for persons accused
of crime who have to stand trial, and for
that reason it will become incumbent
upon Messrs. Ling and Shinn to with
draw from Lockwood's bond on Monday,
or after he is arraigned. 1t is under
stood that his father owns valuable
property in this city, said to be worth
about SIS, 900, and for that reason Lock-
wood will hardly be at a loss to find
sufficient sureties to keep him out of
Jail.
A number of people yesterday ex-
pressed the opinion that Mr.. Lockwood,
now that he is to be tried at the bar of
the superior court for crime which
may land him in the penitentiary for
five years, should either resign or OBJ
tain leave of absence until this scandal
Gus affair is settled either way-by his
acquittal or conviction. Without enter
ing upon the presumption of his guilt
or innocence, they say that out OF self
respect, and Difference to the wishes OF
the board of supervisors the general
public and the opinion of the
press, he cannot, if he has any
manhod, pretend to dispense JUS
tice from the bench until the stain
now resting upon his character has been
cleared. 1t is known that Justice Lock
wood has sought to know the opinion Of
some of his colleagues at the bar re-
specting the judiciousness of his remain
ing in office, and one prominent attor-
ney, when SO approached, emphatically
stated that Lockwood, in his opinion,
should have resigned as soon as he was
arrested on the charge of forgery. Mr.
Lockwood's peculiar ideas of how JUS
tice should be administered may easily
be appreciated when it is learned that
his devotion to Jim Damron biased him
on other occasions. For instance, when
Siegel, the halter, was about to swear
out warrant for Ponds arrest on a
charge of forgery, Lockwood. the JUS
tice, urged the complainant to temporar-
lily stop legal proceedings because he an
ticipated that the recurrence of so many
forgery charges might cause a public
feeling that would prove dangerous to
Jim, the penman.
Lockwood may not feel desirous to
forego a very decent salary, with no
more work daily than he cares to do,
but it seems a hardship on the tax
paying community that he should re-
ceive monthly $166.66, when, as a mat
ter of fact, one week of this salary has
been earned sitting in court-rooms as a
defendant.