The herald., 1896-01-07
THE WEIGH ARREST
A Redondo Beach Letter Warmly Indorsing
The fferald's Attitude

A Redondo Beach Letter Warmly Indorslng
The Herald's Attitude
The herald has received the following
letter from a well-known citizen of Re-
dondo Beach indorsing the position of the
paper relative to the Welch vagrancy mat
ter:
REDoNDo BEACH, Jan. 6.
EDITOR HERALD-The editor of the
Breeze of the 4th Of this month. in crit
icising The HERALD, Times and Record
for their publication condemning the
actions OF Constable Blanchard and JUS
! tlce Witherel for railroadinR the old vet
eran, Robert Welch, to the county Jail for
ten days for vagrancy, does not meet with
the approval of the citizens of Redondo.
The Los Angeles papers expressed the SEN
timents of nearly every broad-mnded man
in Redondo. There is no doubt bul
Blanchard has taken advantage of almost
every opportunity to swell his fees, but OF
course when his actions are condemned he
then tries to shift the blame on some other
person. As the Breeze seems to be the
mouthplece OF a part of the local
constabuary, will its editor arise and
please explain why 1t happened that
Mr. blanchard is known among the boys
az 81 PluHkett. Will he explain why Mr..
Plunkett brought three charges against a
certain saloon keeper for selling liquor to
boys under age when the offense was COM
by the proprietor. but by his bartender and
against his wishes and instructions?
Will he explain why II P.unkett arrested
an old citizen. under the charge of vagran-
cy. who has lived in Redondo for five years
and has been engaged in business here
most OF the time since he has been here;
who has never asked for any aid but has
always paid his way, but at the time of ar
rest was not in business, having failed
short time before, and, not being able TO do
hard work, was out of employment for q
few months? Why did 81 Plunkett arrest
him and then subpoena about eighty
witnesses? Was not that action done for
money-malxing scheme?
Will the Breeze explain why Blanchard
followed an old man along the railroad
track, overhauled him, took him 10 his own
house and fed him, then arrested him for
begging? Withcrell was. il is reported,
out of town on that day. and Mr.. Bianch-
ard had to bring him before honest Billy
Harrison. WHAT was the result? He was
given chance to go his way, but not
BIanchards. The act looked SO bare
faced ahd malicious that the lockers on
Immediately took up collection of So so
and gave il to him before he left Can
has now had eigh' different men on his
bonds since he was elected? The bonds
men, or at least some of them, said they
were afraid that they would have damages
to pay if they remained on his bonds. The
majority of the intelligent citizens will say,
''Lay OH, Macduff, you have not given him
half what he deserves
There will be another election in Redon-
do some day. The voters will them speak
for themselves, and if signs do not fail, 81
Piunkett will be relegated to private life,
to mediate over his many misdeeds. He
does not seem to be satisfied with PEN
sion of $50 per month and a salary of $75
for marshal, which Office he holds; but to-
day he has the reputation of being the best
hated man in Redondo.
The HERALD and Times have made
themselves more popular than ever by
taking up this matter. Not only will the
citizens of Redondo uphold them, but they
will have the sympathy of all southern
California. Of course the officers will lay
the blame on some other person, when
they themselves are indirectly to blame.
Whose fault is it if an officer has gang of
narrow-minded. tin-headed Missouri stool
pigeons to do their dirty work for them?
REDONDo SUBSCRIBER.