The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-09
,ort was as follows:
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SAN FRANCISCO, May 8, 1895.
Hon. r. a. Belcher, Judge Of the Superior Court
OF the State of California, IN and for the CITY and
County of San Franctsco-sIR: Pursuant to
your instructions received in open court on
May z, 1895, have the honor to submit the
following report in relation to the charge OF
which your Honor was yesterday made cog
infant, that the Daily Evening Post of this city
had demanded of Alexander Loughborough
Loughborough the sum of $500 for writing
the said Loughborough good record; failing
to receive said sum, would then through its
columns attack Loughborough and all in
vestigation makes clear the following
state OF facts: AS early as the Sth
OF January, of this year, and while
still pending before the committing magistrate
for preliminary examination, a newspaper soil
cltor who was IN no way connected with the
Post approached A. II. Loughborough, the
father of the defendant, and proposed to him
that Mr.. Loughborough should pay to the jour-
nal, not the Post, which the solicitor repre-
sented, the sum of $500. That for and on ac-
count OF this payment the journal in question
should from time to time write up" the
Loughborough case, from the defendants
standpoint and at all hearings and examtna-
tons in the matter report those proceedings
which were most favorable to the defendant.
This proposition was, however, declined by
Mr.. Loughborough Sr. upon the ground that
he did not require newspaper assistance OF that
character. Mr.. Loughborough Sr. is most par
ucular to state that this proposition before re-
ported was accompanied by no threats
lntimationS OF attack in any way what
soever; nor since his refusal to retain said
paper has he or his been subjected to criticism
or attack by said paper SO far as the Daily
Evening Post is concerned no one representing
or purporting to represent said paper has in
any way or under any circumstances ap-
preached either Mr.. Loughborough with any
proposition OF any kind, financial or otherwise.
The TACT, however, that certain newspaper
had offered to support the defendant in the
People VS.. Loughborough for the sum of $500
was, shortly after, or at the time of Its occur
renee IN January, 1895, communicated by Mr..
Loughborough Sr. to Mr.. Loughberough Jr.,
with the further information that he had not
accepted the proposition. Nearly six months
thereafter, and on May 6, Mr.. Loughborough
Jr., meeting Mr.. Oscar Tolle on Market street,
repeated to Mr.. Tolle this story with the
insertion OF the Posts name as being the
paper which had made the proposition
Mr.. Loughborough Jr. was, as stated hereinbe-
fore, in error. His information was derived
solely from his father, and his father had never
made the statement attributed to him by Mr..
Loughborough Jr by mistake. Your Honor's
experience as man of the world will demon
strate that the charge against the Daily Even
ing Post which reached your Honors ears has
arisen originally from mistake, and has grown
to its present proportions by being passed from
mouth to mouth.
AS result of my investigations, and as
matter OF fact, l find that the charges against
which have reached your Honors ears, are
without foundation and untrue; and that the
Post has neither asked nor received anything
whatever at the hands of Mr.. Loughborough
or any one else connected with his case. Re-
spectfully, WILLIAM S. BARNES,
District Attorney.
The court ordered that the report be
filed. His Honor stated that he had re-
ceived letter from the proprietor of the
Evening Post asking for the sources of his
information and denying any knowledge
of the matter complained of. He had re-
piled, stating his belief in the writer's en-
tire innocence and referring him for future
information to the District Attorney.
~ have no animus in this case at all, !"
at being attacked in the Post. The report
of the District Attorney is satisfactory and
may be fled"