Los Angeles herald., 1892-08-17
THAT REWARD FOR CRANDALL,
An Incident About 1t in the
Police Commission.
Some Curious Features of the Case
Brought to Light Yesterday.
The Story of the Matter as 1t Reached
the Herald Office = The Chiefs
Former Notwithstanding In
vestigation Postponed.

| The chief of police, John M. Glass,
yesterday turned over to the police COM
missioners, at its meeting, $3.50, and De-
tective Motif turned over $3.50 more, the
amount of money received by the chief
from the insurance companies for the
part he took in turning up B. B. Gran
dali. The remainder, $1700. went to the
mysterious Mrs. Rowland, whoever che
is, supposedly Mrs. Marshall, nee Will
son.
Connected with all of this is a long
story but it really furnishes most in
teresting tale. After Crandall had been
tried and acquitted. the story was that
the insurance companies sent the $4,000
reward to Los Angeles, to be paid to
Mrs. Rowland. As soon as the money
was received here, the facts became
known to the HERALD, and an endeavor
was made to run them down and ascer-
tain who the mysterious Mrs. Rowland
was.
The story as it reached the HERALD
was to the effect that the chief of police
had collected the money and paid it to
the woman. Therefore, representa-
| tive of the HERALD called upon the
chief three weeks ago, when it was un-
derstood that the money had arrived, to
endeavor to find out the truth of the
matter.
The chief was asked if he knew who
Mrs. Rowland was. He replied that he
did not. He was asked if he had not
paid her reward, less his commission.
Then he became very angry, and
stated that he knew nothing about Mrs.
Rowland, had not had anything to do
with paying her a reward, and was en-
tirely ignorant of the whole affair.
This was very positive statement. He
even went further, and informed the
HERALD representative that he would
tell him nothing about the matter at all,
even if he did know.
This conversation being to the point,
! it became useless to have anything fur
ther to do with the chief in regard to
the matter. He let several meetings
of the commission 60 by and failed to
report the reception by him or the de-
partment of any reward in the Crandall
case.
| The rules governing the department
upon this point are plainly set forth in
cold type in a neat little book printed
by the city.
After the chief had neglected to turn
over the reward for sometime, the HER
AID set out to investigate the case, inde-
| pendent of the chief. The story that
reached this Office, from a credible
source, was to the effect that the mys-
terious Mrs. Rowland had called
upon the chief and explained to
him the circumstances OF the
| Crandall case. She entered into con-
] tract with Detective Motif, at the
1 chiefs suggestion, whereby the $4,000
offered by the insurance companies to
produce Crandall was to be paid, she to
turn him up. OF this $4,000, $3.50 was
| to go to Mrs. Rowland, and the balance
to 60 to the chief or to Detective Moi
4 fit. The chief was to procure $4,000
bond from the insurance companies, to
secure Mrs. Rowland in the reward.
This bond, it was claimed, was kept by
/ the chief until $4,000 was paid to the
chief for Mrs. Rowland. At first, it is
asserted, the chief retained $3.50, but
originally wanted $500. 1t is further
stated that Chiet Glass knew nothing OF
Crandall until Mrs. Rowland told him
about the case, and where and who
Crandall was.
The chief having denied the reception
of any reward, and having stated posi-
tively that he knew nothing of the case,
had had nothing to do with it. and fail
ing to report any reward to the commis-
sion. it was evident that Mrs. Rowland
herself, whoever she was, would be a
good party to interview.
| There had always been well founded
suspicion that the mysterious Mrs.
Rowland was none other than Mrs.
1 Wilson, nee Marshall, who had been
| N.o~Io1Ita nd Iiuinn with
him at the time of his arrest. 1t took
several days to locate Mrs. Wilson, nee
| Marshall, but she was finally found at
321 West Fourth street.
| Monday afternoon at O'Clock a re-
| porter of the HERALD called upon the
lady at her home. To her he related all
of the story OF the Crandall reward, as
noted above. He stated that he had no
desire to hold the mysterious Mrs. Row
land up to public scorn; that the only
desire was to ascertain the facts OF the
case about the reward.
Mrs. Marshall became very nervous.
She said that she had hoped that moth
ing more would be said about the mat
ter; that she would like to have it
dropped.
The conversation lasted some time.
Finally Mrs. Marshall agreed to tell the
story if the reporter would call later.
She wanted to know il it would appear
in the morning, and the interview closed
with the lady g assurance that she could
help in the investigation.
/ The reporter left, and, later Monday
afternoon, returned to 321 Fourth street
TO have another interview with Mrs.
Marshall. But she was not in. She had
gone out in the country, was the state
ment made by her daughter. So that
demolished all ideas of getting her story
Monday evening in time to print it yes
terday morning.
I Yesterday the commission held q
meeting, and, through the chief, the
$500 reward was turned in as the reward
the police department received Ia the
Crandall case. This after the chief had
previously denied the reception OF any
reward whatever. As soon aB the HER
AID commenced investigating the matter