The herald., 1897-12-24
The City Asks Everett's
Bondsmen for Cash
LozIER AND HIS TWO WIVES
A JURY SECURED TO TRY WEBB
FOR OFFICIAL CORRUPTION
Mrs. Gottleber's Stroke of the Pen.
Where Did Keenan, Get the RingP
Court Calendar-N otes

The trial of the cause of the city of Los
Angeles against w. w. Everett and his
bondsmen before Judge Allen yesterday
recalls the gay career in this city, cut
short by his hasty departure, of the clerk
of police court No. ., presided over by
Judge Morrison. Everett was appointed
clerk by Judge Morrison on the 1st of
April, 1895, and his bond upon which
Sherman Smith H. A. Bond, ]. E. Frick,
T. A. House and w. W. Stockwell quail
fed, each in the sum of $1,000, was duly
approved by the late Mayor RAIDER
On the oath of December, 1886, just one
year ago, Everett. who had had all kinds
of money to burn for some time. secret
ly skipped the town with $2S77 of the
city's money, which he as clerk of the
court had collected in bail bonds and
fines, and had failed to turn over to the
city treasurer. as provided by the char
ter. This money covered the police
court clerk S receipts for several months,
and he could never have held on to these
sums as long as he did had it not been
for the negligence and inefficiency of
City Auditor Teae. who turned up him
self among the missing one fine day with
some disreputable transactions to his
own credit.
Beside plundering the city Everett did
not hesitate to rob Judge Morrison, to
whom he owed a finer position than he
ever had had in his life, out of sums ag-
gregating $500 or 5000, the amounts of
judgments paid into the city Justices
court which should have been paid to
the judge. but had been without the
courts knowledge handed to the police
court clerk. Everett also got away with
divers sums obtained by false pretences
from lawyers and friends and was never
heard of any more. 1t was at one time
reported that he had gone to Mexico, but
none of the Los Angeles people who visit
the capital and principal cities of that
republic ever could find track of him.
The name of w. W. Everett was seen
once in passenger list bound for Alaska
and it was reported that he had gone to
the Klondike, but it is probable that the
Yukon Everett was not the Everett upon
whom his bondsmen should like to lay
heavy hand. When the police court
clerk absconded he left behind a young
wife and a little daughter totally unpro-
vided for.
The bondsmen We're sued by the city
after Everett had been gone some time,
and answered, but by leave of the court
they filed an amended answer as the
case was going to trial. In it they al
lege that on the 1st Of January the city
of Los Angeles contained over 100, 900 in
habtants and that as such neither Judge
Morrison nor Clerk Everett was legal
ly empowered to act in such capacities.
These contentious, as we'll as some
others which appear in the amended
complaint are the same upon which is
based All Louie's complaint against Po-
lice Judge Owens of Department one of
the said police court and which is to be
heard in bank in Department two of the
superior court on Jan. g.
furthermore the bondsmen denied ev-
erything else, but with the proviso that
If notwithstanding their denial the allie
cations in the complaint had really hap
pened, that then by reason of the laXity
of a number of officials at the city hall,
these and not the qualified bondsmen
were those who should be held RESPONSE
BILE.
There We're enough attorneys in the
case to cause it to become harder to
solve than a japanese puzzle. For the
city Messrs. Dunn and Thomas ap-
peared, and for the bondsmen Dunnigan
& Dunngan. Appel & Whitney, F. r.
Willis and Frank James did the best
they could. In the afternoon these gem
tlemen tried to reach, on stipulation,
an aggregate amount of Everett's de-
falcations by an examination of tha
grand jury experts data in order to save
a long and tedious examination of books
The case was not concluded when court
adjourned.