Los Angeles herald., 1892-01-13
POLICE MATTERS.
PROCEEDINGS OF YESTERDAYS
MEETING OF THE COMMISSION.
Saloon License Revoked = Alameda
Street Houses.

The police commissioners met ester
day afternoon in regular session, Mayor
Hazard and Commissioners Shatto and
Lewis being present. The chief report
ed progress on the investigation of the
application for permit for license of ".
Rangaturi. The petition was referred
to the chief, the applicant being in
structed to obtain the necessary consent
CT the property holders.
Chief Glass reported on the applica-
ton of Pierre Etcharte, for transfer of
license at 426 North Main street, the
Pico house bar, from Pierre Bante. De-
tective Charles r. Moffatt had investi-
gated the record Of the applicant, and in
his report he says: "Under the pre-
tended management of the said Pierre
Bante, the Pico house bar was conduct
ed in the same disreputable manner as
when the license was in the name OF
P. Ballade, and do not believe there is
any reason to believe that the present
applicant, Etcharte, who has long been
bartender and hanger-on around
there, would improve the place in the
least.
81 do not believe it is possible to have
a decent and orderly saloon in the Pico
house so long as the said house is man
aged and controlled by p Ballade and
the crowd he has around him. Under
his management the place has become
one of the vilest resorts on the Pacific
coast. 1t is frequented by thieves,
vagrants, and prostitutes of the lowest
order, and scarcely a week passes that
does not bring us report of theft or
robbery committed there, and recently
we have had at least two reports OF
brutal fights in the house, in which a
number of the drunken hoodlums bat
tered and maltreated some of the de-
graded beings who support them with
their vile earnings. To shut up the
saloon in the Pico house would be, be-
lieve, big step in the right direction. !"
Commissioner Lewis moved that the
application for transfer be denied, and
that the present permit of Pierre Bante
be revoked. The motion was carried.
The application of r. E. Lee for ap-
pointment on the police force was fled
Anton j. Perry and o. Willenberg
were appointed special policemen with
out pay.
The petition for permit for license at
| 238 South Alameda street, of Marcelin
Eyraud, was referred to the chief, as
was that ofAugust Rottenpieer for trans
| fer of permit at Sixth and Olive streete.
from B. Osthoff.
The petition for transfer of permit for
license at 719 North Alameda street from
Rappet & Hion to Jean Rappet, was
| granted. s
The chief sent in 50, received by Of
| ficer Goodwin from Robert Golmer for
recovering suit of clothes and an over
coat stolen from one of Golmer's room
ers. Turned into the reward and charity
| fund.
Mrs Sarah Bonner filed a protest
with the commission in which she states
that she has leased three houses at the
corner of Turner and Alameda streets to
parties using the same as houses of i'll
fame. She declares that the petitions
recently filed to have the occupants re-
moved have been actuated by malice,
SO that it would be unfair and unjust to
allow the commission to be used as an
| instrument of private revenge and vim
represents that if the three houses are
selected as obnoxious, that it will be
| impossible to rent them for any pur-
pose while they are adjoined and sur.
rounded by notorious houses not in
cluded in the petitions referred to. The
protest was referred to the chief.
William P. Rowland had filed claim
for the 5000 reward paid by Sheriff Fran
els of Arizona, and granted to Officer
Steele for the capture of Cusick, the car
burglar. Howland alleges that he made
the capture himself and turned Cusick
over to Steele. The demand was filed.
The usual requisitions were then
passed, and council adjourned.