The San Francisco call., 1898-01-29
WEBB TO SUE FOR LIBEL.
Number Of Actions to Be Brought Against
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 LOS ANGELES, Jan. 2s.-Within the next week or two the editors and pro- prietors cf the syndicated Times-He d-Express will be led a merry dance in the courts of uiis county, by Walter i.. Webb. wiIo was Dast right acquitted of all charges brought against him and prosecuted by the League for Better City Government. It is a notorious fact that these three papers have. with out any foundation in fact, reason or justice. declared without equivocation that Webb was a boodler and every thing that is corrupt This they did during the entire proceedings against Webb and when there was absolutely no testimony that even tainted him with the crimes charged except the testimony of two Self-confeSsed bood- lers and perjurers.
 Webb was acquitted after a trial in the Superior Court of all the charges that were brought against him, though the case was prosecuted with all the energy and persistence that could be inspired by private and political ami mostly.
 In the course of an interview to-day, when asked what he proposed to do now that the School Board investiga- tion also had resulted in his acquittal, he said:
 ''I have been waiting for time before taking the initiative in proceedings in regard to the many charges which have been published and made against me during the time that this investigation has been going on. It is unnecessary for me now to restate the reasons why 1 was picked out by the League for Better City Government, and by others
  tion- The Call has already clearly and forcibly presented this side of the af- fair to the people of the city of Los An geles.
 At the very outset of this School Board scandal the papers of Los An geles-the Times. Herald and Express began their attacks on me- and have kept them up with but little intermis- sion ever since. They have accused me of all manner and character of crimes without one particle of evil dence to sustain their charges, simply promising from time to time what the League for Better City Government was going to bring out before the Board of Education. and which time has proved to be nothing but the testi- mony, unsupported, of two self-con- fessed perjurers.
 During all this time have carefully kept all the articles published against me or in my favor. I have these now arranged, and intend to use them and compel the papers that published them to prove the truth of the charges made. I shall consult with my attorneys and shall institute as many criminal pro- ceedings against the editors and pro- prietors of these three papers as I am advised can be sustained. They have already advised me that criminal pro- ceedings can be sustained, in particular against MT. Spalding, the manager of the Herald, for the editorial which ap- peared in the Herald on January 21.
 'I shall then bring in addition seve- ral civil libel suits against the Times Herald and Express, and shall give each and all of these papers an oppor- tunity in the Superior Courts of this county to prove the truth of a single one of the charges made against me but which I know they cannot do. for I shall there prove as I did recently be- fore Judge Van Dyke and jury in the Superior Court in this county that have been guilty of no offense. and that not a single charge can be trIIth- fully laid at my door.
 "The papers will find that it is one thing to publicly charge a nan with the commission of an offense and an man claiming to be respectable, and acting in q spirit of fairness and right should ever cast a suspicion CT make charges against the honesty of anymar unless they have the facts at their com mand to substantiate their charge and prove their assertions. And unless tho Times, Herald and Express can prove the correctness of their positions they must of necessity write themselves down as unrighteous blackmailers.
 These suits will be commenced from