The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-20
Claims He Was Personated by
Another Before Insanity
Commissioners.
IMPRISONED BY CONsP1RAToRs
Judge Gallardo Trying to Esta blish
His Friends Claim to Land
Worth Millions,

SANTA BARBARA, CAL, May 49,
Judge F. F. Galardo, who is busily at
work among the records of this county
with view to obtaining documentary evi.
dence which will establish the right of his
old friend, Judge Huse, to be released
from the Highland Insane ASYLUM. as
well as to attend to his property rights
here, to-day reiterated his statement that
the Judge owns property worth not less
than 100000 in this State. He asserts
that should Judge Huse be released it
would only be necessary to make arplica-
ton to the Federal authorities at Wash
lngton to have a resurvev of the whole of
Ell Montecito Valley, to which, the attor-
ney claims, Huse has a valid title. He
also asserts that Huse has not lost his
right oil red .lption to a large mortgage
upon the great Los Prietos Naiaiayeoua
ranch which, if established, would yir-
tually give him title to the entire prom
erty, worth hundreds of thousands of dol
lars. Explaining this claim, Gallardo
states that the mortgage was lost through
delinquent taxes, but that this forfeiture
occurred after the Judges incarceration,
and that the law especially protects from
such summary operation persons who are
from any cause incapactated from attend.
ing to their own interests. He intimates
that this loss of the mortgage was all a
part of the conspiracy which has put
Judge Huse where he is.
GslIardo permitted CALL correspondent
to copy letter just received from Judge
Huse, discussing the legal aspects of his
case in the most intelligent, moderate and
rational manner, and at the same time
making sensational charges. 1t is as fol-
lows:
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA STATE ASYLUM
SAN BERNARDINo, May 10, 1896.
r. GdHdrdo, Nephati, Cal 1 received YOUR
letter from Newhall last evening. have care
fully examined and considered the whole of
contents, and approve and concur in all that
you have written. The hesitation of the Su
preme Court is due, think, to the following
reasons: That there has been no case on ap
peal before this bench of Judges from lower
court in case OF habeas corpus, so far as
know.
II the petition for the writ had been made To
the Supreme Court or to any one of its Judges
In the first instance, do not see how the
court, or any one Of its Judges, could fail or
refuse to grant it, or hear it or cause 1t 10 he
heard. He 1.-THE judge or the court might
designate the Judge before whom the matter
was to be heard and the evidence taken I
think 1t is best 20 furnish the court with your
points and authorities" just exactly as is
done in all civil cases.
am in good health, mentally and physically.
and in the best of spirits, never better than
am now. No doctor in this or any other State
can be more exact, clear. comprehensive and
exhaustive than Dr.. Hollister was in his testi.
mony as an expert before Judge Otis at the
hearing by him of my petition for writ of
habeas corpus. This is my firm opinion and
settled conviction.
He showed that he understood the onerat;o,
OF the human mind as we'll as any meta
physician or pathologist. Otis did not decide