The herald., 1896-01-22
C)LvER CREATES A SEANCE
The Newspaper Man Who Is
Fighting Siberian Methods
STIRS UP THE POLICE BOARD
The Reporter Furnishes a Bill of Par
ticuIars
Chief Glass Is Protecting Protege and Hints
Broadly That Some One Is Trying
to Do Politics

Chief of Police Glass turned the trolley
wires of his wrath again loose upon some
OF his newspaper acquaintances yesterday
morning before the police board, qualify
ing his remarks after fashion by the
statement that any reporter who delber-
ately misquotes him is worse than thief,
or words to that effect. The chief fur
nished no specific counts to his emphatic
Indictment, and there was really no more
occasion for his churlish growl than there
was for his broad intimation, made later,
that the charges of Richard Colver, the
newspaper man who for no cause of his
own fell afoul of Detective Goodman few
days ago, were based upon 'spolitcs." The
chief occasionally has a habit of firing his
ammunition at half cock in this manner,
and once before when he cast publicly a
most serious reflection upon the Woman's 8
Christian Temperance union and the Min
isterial union, it required the efforts of all
of his friends to pull his feet out of the pre-
dicament into which the dig chiefs thought
less candor had placed them. T1e imme-
diate cause for Glass unwarranted out
break, was the following bill of particulars
presented to the police commissioners by
Colver:
L
drawn into an alteration with Police De-
tective j. G. Goodman in the Office of the
chief of detectives at the city police sta
ton. Mr.. Goodman, during the course of
. conversation. accused me of having re-
ceived from one G. G. Compton a consider
alton for writing a certain article. | de-
MED the imputation cast upon my charac-
ter in language perhaps more forcible than
elegant. Thereupon Mr.. Goodman went
on to state that he had seen Mr.. Compton
and that be (Compton) had informed him
(Goodman) that he desired nothing further
to do with me. Inasmuch as l had never
seen, spoken to. or had anything to do with
Mr.. Compton, l denounced the statement
as lie in language quite emphatic. Mr..
Goodman had, relying upon his superior
physical force, already insulted me, and
resented it as an honorable man in the
most effective and judicous manner l con-
sidered possible. MIR. Goodman thereupon
seized me with violence and with his
clenched fist struck me stinging blow
over the head, Had it not been for the
timely interference of Detective MofIitt,
undoubtedly would have suffered fur ther
violence from this party.
l simply desire to submit to your honor
able board the question as to whether or
not peace officer has it within the scope
OF bis authority to wantonly Insult a cit-
zen. and then, because of the fact that the
Goodman's act l consider cowardly. unwar-
rauted and unbeconing police officer.
desire. now that this subject has been
brought up, to call to your attention the
article which caused ill feeling on the part
of Mr.. Goodman toward myself. The facts
OF an outrageous and Illegal proceeding
upon the part of Goodman, in his capacity
as police officer, had been called to pub
lie attention through the medium of the
Evening Record. upon which paper hap
pen to be engaged. The said Goodman
had, at am. January 11,h, arrested one
G. u. Compton, without warrant or due
process of any court. He had taken him
TO the city Jail and there caused his incar-
ceration. Compton was not informed of
any charge that was made against him,
nor was he permitted to communicate with
his friends upon the outside of the Jail. nor
could he send a message to his attorney.
ALI of Saturday. Saturday night, Sunday,
Sunday night, and Monday afternoon until
about o'clock, for period of approxi-
mately sixty hours, the said Compton was
deprived of his liberty. His arrest and de-
tention was not recorded, nor was it known
to the chief of police, to the captain, nor to
the officers about the station. Compton's
friends were filled with wonder at
his sudden disappearance No one
had observed Detectiv Goodman in
the act of making the arrest, and he
himself kept the matter secret. Mr..
Compton was confined in small cell and
subjected to all the indignities of GRIM
inal. Finally, Monday afternoon, he Sue
ceeded in getting word to his attorney, the
Hon. NJ. =; c. Munday, Informing him that
he was at the city Jail. Mr.. Munday was
much surprised and proceeded to the Jail
to ascertain why his client was detained.
Upon arriving there he asked for inforlna-
ton from the clerk, and was promptly in
formed that Mr.. Compton was not there.
The captain also informed him that Mr.
Compton was not, to his knowledge, con-
fined. Later, it was ascertaiued that Mr..
Compton was being detained behind prison
bars, and Mr.. Munday endeavored to as
certain upon what charge he was being
held. No charge could be found: none
was preferred by the arresti officer, Mr..
Goodman, and upon Attorney Munday's
demand Compton was promptly released.
This outrageous proceeding the Record
saw fit to denounce as un-Amercan and as
an encroachment upon the inalienable
rights of a citizen. guaranteed him under
the constitution of the United States and
of the state of California.
Inasmuch as Mr.. Goodman has been
guilty of violating the rights of
not upon one, but upon numerous
occasions, the management of the paper
considered that it was about time for a
protest to be entered in behalf of the poor
and friendless victims of arbitrary. arro-
CANT police power exercised by this party
without reason, judgment, or common
sense, and in defiance of all law or JUS
tice.
In October last, the party Goodman Sc
cured John Doe warrant and caused the
arrest at Ventura of an inoffensive Italian
who had left this city to engage in bus-
ness at that point, having previously made
. shipment of perishable goods, which con-
stituted his stock in trade. Goodman pro-
ceeded to Ventura, arrested the Italian,
brought him to Los Angeles, smuggled him
into the Jail, and there detained him for
two weeks. The prisoner was then re-
leased and ordered to leave the city. Be-
Ing ignorant of his rights and half fright
ened to death, the Italian did so. In the
meantime his stock of goods at Ventura
perished, and the man was utterly ruined
by this arbitrary action of the man Good
man. He was an innocent man.
Sometime ago young boy was paroled
from Whittier. Attorney John II. Foley
had taken some little interest in him. The
boy lived for time with Mr.. Foley and
secured odd jobs about the city. Twice he
and was for days as one lost.
He turned up later and stated to Mr.. Foley
that he had been detained at the city jail
by Detective Goodman without any charge
having been filed against him or without
being permitted to communicate with any
of his friends.
A third time the boy disappeared, and
Mr.. Foley instituted search for him. He
went to the police station and incurred.
The boy was there. The attorney saw him
and conversed with him. A writ of habeas
corpus was thereupon sued out before the
Hon. Waldo NJ York, superior Judge.
Chief Glass. who perhaps was not aware of
lhe fact that the boy was buried some-