The record-union., 1891-12-21
WANTS AN INVESTIGATION.
Assemblyman Bruner Makes a Re-
quest of the District Attorney.

quest InG D1SCr1cC Attorney.
The following communication has been
submitted by Assemblyman Elwood
Bruner to District Attorney Ryan:
Hon. Frank d. Ryan, District AttOr-
neg of Sacramento County, ,SdcTGnle7
Cdt.-SIR: address you as the District At
torney of Sacramento County, with re-
quest that, at your earliest convenience,
you will call the attention of the Grand
Jury of this county to the charges made
against me by the San Francisco En-
GntineT, q paper published in the city of
San Francisco, of malfeasance in office as
a member of the Assembly of the State of
California, and especially in reference to
my action in regard to the bills known as
the ''police bill" and ''an Act to prevent
frauds upon travellers"
These charges have been so frequently
repeated and heralded throughout the
State that doubtless many persons be-
lieve them to be true, although the AS
sembly Of California vindicated me after
full investigation upon the first of said
charges, the second not then having been
made.
The history of the second charge is
doubtless familiar to you.
A conspiracy was formed, the secret
purpose of which was locked in their
own breasts, but whose outward mani
festation was an attempt to blacken my
CIdIdCLGI III Jfl0 0NGS O1 IIe WOIlu.
AT the head of the conspiracy was
Judge, who, when candidate before
his party convention but few years since
for the Office of Member of Congress, was
driven from the convention by the charge
openly made by a citizen of this county,
that he had paid the Judge while mem
of the Supreme Bench the sum of 5000
as bribe for a decision in the citizens
favor, of a case heretofore pending in
the Supreme Court. The records show
that the decision came all right.
The second became the foreman of an
alleged Grand jury at the solicitation of
the Judge.
This mans name is unpleasantly asso-
ciated with the acquisition Of title of a
large amount of Indian Reservation Gov
ernment lands while member of Con-
gress. He it was, too, who when his
native country needed every son as de-
fender, fed, a traitor to his flag, and
added the name "Mexican" opposite his
record of citizenship. The third, broker,
acquired his fortune followed by the
sighs and tears of widows and orphans.
He failed in business, settled with his
creditors at twenty cents on the dollar,
and within a few months purchased
property worth several hundred thousand
dollars.
The three were backed by powerful
metropolitan daily newspaper, whose
pages are HlleQ Win dQNerLlS6IneuLS OF
places where the frail can be found, and
whose blackmailing propensities are
quite familiar to the courts and the pub
lie. Not content with 'packing'' the
above-named Grand Jury, they pro-
ceeded to and did pack trial jury for
the awowed purpose of securing con-
viction in my case.
Under the above circumstances was
compelled 10 appeal to higher court to
prevent this vicious and ruthless inva-
sion of my constitutional and statutory
rights as citizen. The result of that ap-
peal is known to you. The action of the
San Francisco Grand Jury, conceived in
malice, revenge and political hatred, has
been arrested.
But / now desire vindication, know
ing that my political life has been clean.
1t is duty which owe to my constitu
ents, my family and myself, and to that
end lay bare my official life and desire
that it be probed to the bottom.
will assist you in every way possible
in this investigation. Respectfully SUBJ
mitted. ELwooD BRUNER.
Sacramento, December 19, 1891. 4