Los Angeles herald., 1892-01-06
SON AGAINST FATHER.
WILLIAM ALLEN DENIES HIS
FATHERS STORIES.
The Facts About Loosmore's Conviction.
How He Was Sent to San Quentin.
How the Law Perpetrated an In
justice.

"I have come down here to answer
those statements rejecting on my
mother" said William O.. Allen as he
walked into the San Francisco Chronicle
Office yesterday, says that paper of Mon
day. He is the eldest son of John AL
len, on whose testi nony John Loosmore
was sent to San Quentin prison from
San Luis Obispo county. 'sMy father"
said Allen, who is 20 years of age, was
keeper under Sheriff McMann of this
city from 1886 to 1888. While he was
here he took up 160 acres of government
land in San Luis Obispo county and
took my mother, myself and my brother
Charles down there to live on it while
he proved up his claim. Ny brother
Frank he kept in this city at school.
After he got out of his job as keeper he
came down and lived with us and took
up another 100 acres under the timber
culture law. He helped us farm the
first 100 acres for one year, and then he
came back to this city.
''It was while he was down there that
Loosmore shot the steer he was sent to
the penitentiary for killing. Father
sent for him to come over and kill it,
and father, brother Charles and brother
Frank, who was at the time with us, to-
gether with myself, rounded up bunch
of cattle ons fathers land and drove
them up by fence where Loosmore
was. Loosmore shot the steer and
helped us skin it. He shot it before
breakfast, and after that meal he and l
went over to his place, eight miles away,
| leaving the steer to be handled by my
folks.
"Loosmore continued to visit us from
| time to time, and when father returned
to San Francisco he and leased from
father for two years all the land. Father
came down here and got job driving
the prisoners van, and afterward worked
as guard at the house of correction.
"Loosmore and l seeded our land, and
he lived at our house part of the time
while we were working our crop. All
the time he lived at our house he slept
with me, and mother treated him just
as she treated Charlie and myself. Sud
denly my father came home and tried to
get me to 90 in with him and take the
leased land that Loosmore and / were
working away from Englishman.
would have the land and the crop any
way. Mother took my part and Loos-
moore's and then father began to talk
among the neighbors about mother be-
| ing intimate with Loosmore. 1t was
some time before we heard OF it, for the
neighbors in our section were few and
far between. The first we knew of it
was when our newest neighbor, Pat
Kenny, came over to our place one
morning and said that father
had come to his house the night
before with four men, and told
Kenny that they were going to mob
mother and me and Charlie and drive
us away. I went to father and asked
him what he meant by his talk about
mother, and he denied having said any
thing.
"Loosmore killed the steer year be-
fore he and | rented the place, and be-
fore he came to live at our place. Nearly
another year after that he was arrested
on charge of grand larceny. On the
trial Jose Terra, neighbor, swore that
the steer belonged to him. My father
swore that Loosmore knew the steer was
| Terra's. Loosmore was convicted"
Young Allen says that his fathers
story about his mother has broken up
the family. His brother Charles is now
working at Hanford, Tulare county he
himself is working ON Mr.. Seely's ranch,
near San Jose. and his mother is living
with Mr.. and Mrs. White at Brent
wood, Contra Costa county. He says
he is going to Sacramento to see the
governor on Loosmore's behalf. Loos-
more must be in Visalia before February
10th next or lose his land, and every
effort will be made to procure his pardon
before that time.