The herald., 1896-06-06
A SUBJECT UNSPEAKABLE
Blanche LabOrde Is After Some
Good Money
SHE CLAIMS $500 DAMAGES
A Direct Charge OF Conspiracy Made by
the Woman
She Alleges That the Mayor. Chief Glass and
the Police Board Stood In to Freeze Her
Out for Theodore Bauer

The Alameda street ulcer has cropped
out again, and this time the allegations
made under oath are such that neither
the mayor, the chief of police nor the
police board can afford to ignore the
charges and specifications furnished in
the affidavit, which have just been filed.
The Shafer brothers, who are the own
ers of nearly all the property in the
burnt district, sometime ago brought q
suit of ejectment against Blanche La
borde, one of their unutterable tenants,
in which they sought to recover from the
woman certain moneys alleged to be
due for rental. The defendant yester-
day filed her answer alleging in cross
complaint the following sensational
facts:
Defendant alleges that during the
month of June. 1895, from the list day of
June to the 30th day thereof inclusive,
plaintiff in this action entered into q
conspiracy with J. NJ. Glass, Frank Ra-
der. Guy Barham w. c. Cook and Rob-
ert Wirshing, all of whom reside in the
city of Los Angeles, Los Angeles county,
California, for the purpose of preventing
the tenants or persons with whom the
defendant was doing business from en-
tering into any of the rooms leased and
described in the complaint, and that for
that purpose the said Glass, as a part
of the conspiracy on his part, stationed
police officers at the door of each of the
rooms of defendant who prevented peo-
pie entering into or departing from said
rooms; that by reason of such action
plaintiff was deprived of the income of
said rooms or any of them, and her ten
ants forced to leave them vacant; that
by reason of said conspiracy of the said
plaintiff and said Glass, RAIDER. Barham.
COOK and Wirshing, and their prevent
ing the occupancy of said leased prem
ises by tenants of the defendant, she has
hapn ia aI IN bac
For a further, third and separate de-
fense and cause of action, and for af-
firmative relief, defendant alleges:
That on the goth day of August, 1894,
she enterend into lease in writing with
plaintlf for the premises in plaintiffs
complaint described. for term of three
years from said date. That said lease
mas not yet expired by it's terms, nor has
II been Cancelled by the parts thereto,
but remains in full force and effect
That thereafter, to-wit on the 2Oth
Gay OF July, 1895. the plaintiff by an in
denture in writing leased the premises
IN pla1ntiffs complaint decribed to one
theodore BaueSr, which said lease is
now of record in the county recorders
office of said Los Angeles county in
book ~ at page 147, and that said Bauer
Is now and has been ever since the date
of said lease from plaintiff to him in the
possession of the premises in plaintiffs
complaint ueScr1bed and the whole
thereof, depriving- defendant of the use
and enjoyment of said rooms or any of
them; that thereafter to-wit, on the
lst day of August, 1895, plaintiff served
defendant with a notice in writing to
pay the rent stipulated in the said lease
from plaintiff to defendant mentioned
in plaintiffs complaint, to said Theodore
Bauer.
Wherefore defendant prays judgment
pf fhe ,,rt% %l,nt al :,,%g
by his action; that defendant have judg-
ment against plaintiff for the sum of
$5OO.00 lawful money of the United
States, and damages for the violation of
the lease upon his part; and that she
have judgment against defendant for
the sum of $4,000 damages suffered by
reason of the conspiracy aforesaid and
for her costs of suit.
King & Harmon, attorneys for de-
fendant.
The issues as outlined above are to be
tried before Superior Judge Waldo M.