The herald., 1896-05-01
THE Double HARB R MEN
Continued from First Page.

He said the railroad would pay; that
money was no object to the company in
this case, and the railroad people had
barrels of 1t for use in securing matter
with which to influence congress.
When 1 sent the two men to Santa
Monica | promised to pay them Satur-
day forenoon. On Friday Carrere mad
no money. but Saturday he was "heeled.
for he gave me $40 then with which 10
pay them off, telling me to get the fake
petitions and bring them back to the
Office as soon as possible. When J. got
there he asked il everything had been
Strengthened out. 1 told him ~ more
had to be paid. This was at . a. M. Car
rere did not give me the money then,
but said: Come back at l o'clock and /
will have the money for YOU
AT the time appointed l came back
and saw a new coat and vest on him. L
looked at him with surprise, such ex-
travagance being unusual with him
He evidently thought smelled an Afri-
can, for he said that was nothing, ana
pulled out two or three $40 gold pieces,
to show that he had money to burn as
we'll as money with which to buy clothes.
He gave me 81 for the men and 50 for
myself, which thought very small COM
pensation for what ] had done. He had
evidently cleaned up a nice little Wad
for himself, and / learned that he eX-
pected to get annual passes over the
Southern Pacific railway free of charge
In further recompense for his services in
the company. In talking with me he re-
peatedly said: L don't care for individ-
ual names; they don't matter. All /
care for is the number of nameS-and
he got them-fictitious and those of rail-
road employees all of which seemed to
be perfectly satisfactory to him and to
the company.
II did not come into personal contact
with H. u. Osborne, the principal propri-
etor of the Express, but 1t was evident
that he was aware of what was going
on. Carrere was in frequent consulta-
ton with him and acted as go-between
whenever the railroad schemes were be-
ing worked. How much Osborne got for
the editorial Endorsement by his paper
of the Santa Monica proposition 1 do
not know, but, judging by what j got
and the draw down Carrere made, L
have no doubt Osborne was satisfied in
some way. The reference of Carrere to
the barrels of money the railroad people
were putting into the business made 1t
look as though somebody was getting
handsome thing out of it. What they
gave me could not have lowered it
much"
Afiant says, in addition, that the fore
going statement was volunteered to the
Los Angeles Times on his own volition,
and for no offer OF reward from any one.
Los Angeles Times and the public, and
that the offer was made of his own will,
and without his having been approached
by any person at the Times office, or
other person. GEORGE ANDERSON.
Subscribed and sworn to before me
this 30th day Of April 1896.
w. G. JOHNSON,
Notary public in and for Los Angeles
county, state of California.
T.. d. NORRIS AFFIDAVIT
State of California, County of Los An
geles. SIS.
T.. d. Morris, being first duly
sworn, deposes and says: That he is
the age of &c years, and is at the pres
ent time resident of Los Angeles; that
he is a painter by trade, and some
time ago had paint shop in Covina in
the above-named county and state
that he has been a resident of the city
of Los Angeles for about seven months:
that for some time past he has been ac-
quainted with George Anderson, who
represented himself to affiant as being
employed as a clerk or private secre-
tary to Mr.. Carrere, editor of the Ex-
press; that between three and four
weeks ago, while affiant was out of en-
ployment, the said George Anderson
came to him and told him that he de-
sired to put into atlantis hands for
tions, of which the following is copy:
LOS ANGELES. Cal, April s, 1896
Senator Stephen M. White and Con-
gresmasn James McLachlin, Washing
ton, d. C.-Sirs: We, the undersigned,
citizens of the city of Los Angeles, fa-
Nor all the appropriations for harbor.
or other improvements that congress is
willing to grant, and therefore urge
you to so amend the river and harbor
appropriation bill that it will contain
the appropriation as originally inserted
in the bill by the house committee
for both San Pedro and Santa Monica.
Respectfully, -"
That said Anderson at the time stated
to affiant that he would give him a
dollar for each petition which he got
filled out with names; that to each
of said petitions was attached about
two and one-half blank leaves of legal
cap size, which leaves were ruled in two
columns; that aiiiant was givt> to un-
derstand that the thing required of
him was to get said blank pages filed
with names, without reference to whose
names or how they were obtained or
by whom signed that affiant, in order
to fill said blank pages, in many in
stances, wrote names himself, prob
ably writing 100 names which were fic-
tltlous, being such names as came into
his mind; that afIiant would also pre-
sent the petitions to any person whom
ne might meet upon the street or in
saloons or other places where idle men
were standing around, and induce such
persons to sign their names, and fire.
quently a signer would sign several
other names besides his own; that the
persons that afliant induced to sign his
petitions We're not in any case repre-
sentative laborihg men or business men
of the city of Los Angeles, but were
such men as he happened to run across
about the street or in saloons in said
city; that afliant never had at any time
attempted to get signatures from either
laDorlng oU0uSiness men that were cit
liens, but on the contrary depended on
getting them from men whom he found
standing around on San Pedro street
and other places of like character. and
in saloons; that affiant in this manner
hlled out some ten or twelve petitions
aggregating several hundred names:
that these petitions were delivered as
fast as filed out to said Anderson. and
said Anderson paid affiant 81 for each
petitions; that aftiant understood from
the said Anderson that the petitions
were to be delivered to the editor
of the Express, and by him to be deIiv-
cred to the Southern Pacific railway
officials for use in the harbor contest:
that the said Anderson had informed
affiant that the Evening Express was
behind the matter. and the work was
being done at the request of the Ex-
press people; affiant further states that
another petition was presented to him
by the said Anderson. the same as the
foregoing. excepting that in place of the
words citizens of Los Angeles was in
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