The herald., 1893-08-20
CITY BANK SQUABBLE,
ATTORNEY JONES GOES FOR ArTOR.
NEY f. w. BURNETr.
Tho Latter Makes No Response to 9
Charge OF Unprofessional Conduct.
An Explanation from Coch-
ran and Gardiner.

The City bank affairs came up in two
places yesterday.
There was quite q snappy time in
Judge McKinley's court room, in which
F. W. Burnett, attorney for Receiver
Brodtbeck, WAS sharply criticised by
John I. Jones while in the board ol
supervisors funny little document was
filed by Attorneys W. P. Gardiner and
Geo. I. Cochran.
The matter that came up in the court
was upon the petition to throw the bank
into insolvency and put it in the hands
Of an assignee.
This petition was fled in the superior
court several days ago by several small
creditors Of the bank.
Yesterday, which had been fixed for q
hearing in the matter, Mr.. Burnett pre-.
eented the following innocent-looking
writing, which excited Mr.. Jones' ire
In the superior court, county Of Los
insolvency OF the City bank.
The undersigned, having signed the
petition on file in said matter under a
Misrepresentation. now ask leave to
withdraw their names therefrom as pc
JltlOuoIb, huu luOto budb No W tucm E6lu
proceeding be discontinued.
JAsPAR HoLz.
~ @. p. ADAMS.
\ This left George H. Wise. G. A.
sss|s5sg sssRhsnss9 and 2; 3; Phillips o. the
Ar. Jones otisetpd to, Mr.. \ BuEnstt's 9
appaa1anSe in te 4roeeedings. ata said
sional . inc eenneGtinns with the with
drawal Of the gentlemen named in the
psper "a as'pfesentedv OCl Y q w
Mr.. Burnett did not make any reply
to the caustic remarks OF the attorney,
but simply waited until he was through.
Judge Mckinley decided to continue
the hearing on the petition until Mon
day.
DID NOT REPRESENT THEM.
The board Of supervisors held no ses-
sion yesterday. but the following curious
document, addressed to- Chairman Cook,
was handed to the clerk to be presented
to the board at the next meeting on
Monday:
GENTLEMEN: In recent communica-
tion in writing to your board signed by
certain subscribers to the official bond
OF the county treasurer, signed also by
the Los Angeles clearing house and
joined in by Messrs. Cochran and
Gardiner as attorneys for other sureties,
an error appears in this: Messrs.
Cochran and Gardiner, in purporting 70
act upon behalf of the sureties upon the
official bond referred to, should have
stated that they did not represent
Messrs. Childress, Lunt, Schallert and
Park. Messrs. Cochran and Gardiner
were instructed by the Los Angeles
clearing house to subscribe the request
as attorneys for the sureties upon that
bond, and when the request was pre-
eented Mr.. Gardiner stated verbally to
the board the source Of his authority 10
act as above stated. The fact that
Messrs. Childress, Lunt, Park and Schal-
lert were sureties upon that bond wss
either not known to the subscribers to
the request above mentioned, or, If
known to any of them, was entirely
overlooked at the time the document
was signed. No suggestion or request
for the institution OF any proceedings of
any character versus the City bank or
it's directors or officers has been made
by the clearing house or other persons
who subscribed said request, excepting
the civil actions for the recovery OF the
money mentioned in the foregoing re-
quest.
The paper was signed The Los An
geles Clearing House, by W.P. Gardiner
and George /, Cochran, ite attorn0ve.