The herald., 1896-02-12
Cause CeIebre TO Be Tried by
a Jury
COUNTER CLAIMS TO GO IN
Mr.. Bauer Has in Hand Some Very
Valuable Memoranda
He Knows of the Fraity of the Human
IAiad in the Way of Remembering
Little 1atters

On the 26th inst. the now famous suit OF
Bosqui VS.. Bauer will come up regularly
for trial in department two OF the police
court before Justice Morrison.
jury of twelve good men will be called
upon to decide whether Theodore Bauer
owes ex-Police Detective Bosqui, COM
monty known as the Little Chief, or
whether the Little Chief owes the boss of
Little Paree.
j. Marion Brooks is now engaged in pre-
pairing the answer that will be put in in
Bauer's behalf to offset the claim of the
Little Chief for 5000 for services alleged to
have been rendered. Colonel Brooks is the
attorney for Bauer.
1t is no easy matter to prepare the an
swer, for it is reported that Mr.. Bauer will
put in a counter claim against the ex-
police detective for moneys advanced,
given and demanded by him, which will
range we'll UP into the thousa nds, This
money Mr.. Bauer asserts he did not give
the little chief IN lump sum but at divers
and sundry times when demanded by him.
Therefore, if these items are set forth in
the answer they will make quite an ac-
count.
Mr.. Bauer is methodical man about
many things. He has papers, accounts,
L.
back five or six years. Mr. Bauer, per-
haps, realizes the frailty of the human
mind to forget things about as we'll as any
body in this city.
This being the case, he has from time
to time jotted down the little sums he has
paid over on demand and otherwise to olli-
cials, ex-official5 and prospective officials.
In glancing over this memoranda Mr..
Bauer ran across sundry sums advanced,
as he claims, to BosQui. The memoranda
recalled to his memory the various trans
| actions and circumstances under which he
claims he gave the coin to Bosqu.
| This very valuable and interesting data
| as to Mr.. Bauer's private financial transac-
| tions with parties who have been and are
| yet on the city pay roll would make quite
| a chapter. As it is, Colonel Brooks asserts
that the answer he will put in on behalf of
| Bauer will have good effect. He thinks
! it may aid in purifying the official atmos--
phere in police circles for while and
likewise be protection to his client and
! to others from the Matchmaking efforts OF
| the city hall gang and its heelers.
| There is a desire. born of unsatisied GU
riosity, among the members of the police
! commission, or somo Of them, to know
how Chief John NJ. Glass came to appoint
| Chaingang Guard Vignes to his position
when he must have been conversant with
tho circumstances under which Vlgnes re
signed from the force in 1898. The chic
appointed Vignes once before to do work il
the police department after he had re
| signed under pressure for taking, as wa!
then claimed and not denied, 500 for dis
missing case against an Alameda stree
mac. The chief was compelled to remove
Vignes tn en-. The commission would lik
to know now why the chief hired hin
again. Mr.. Glass will be here in time t
explain at the next meeting OF the commits
sion.
The blacklist of thirty-one is still one o
the principal topics of discussion at thu
city hall and in local political circles. Th
existence of the list is denied by the chief
friends, but copy of it is in evidences, ant
this is rather hard to refute. However
when Mr.. Glass gets home he will be abl
to explain it, may be.