The herald., 1898-04-27
is dives. The chief accuses Kelly and

Is dives. The chief accuses Kelly and
Mosher of conducting a place that is q
rendezvous Of pariahs, thieves, lewd wo-
men and the despiscd class generally; also
that men who go there with money seldom
carry It out again.
The other saloon closed Is the "Our
House, managed by w. c. Walker. at 124
North Main street. This place is labeled
by the police as a recruiting office for i'm
moral women who are there to rob the
credulous who may wander in. The chief s
report was supplemented by written state
ments from Detectives w. III. Auble, j. J..
Hawley, Paul r. Flammer, f. H, Steele
and J. G. Goodman.
The case of Harold s. Smith, who was
compelled to put up 50 several weeks ago
by officer w. J. Fifield under threats of
arrest. was taken up by the board. The
complaint of the father of Harold, r. w.
Smith, was supplemented by the statement
Of the officer who made the arrest. The
latter states that he arrested a lad for
"scorching" on a bicycle and that the boy
told him he lived opposite the Burbank.
When he learned his real residence and
that he had He'd, he went to his house and
arrested him.
But the young man the policeman stop
ped for scorching gave his name as G.
Smith and thereby hangs the thread OF
the difference of opinion between the Of
ficer and the father of Harold Smith. The
latter claims that a mistake has been made
and that the officer is too stubborn to ad-
nit It: that his boy is not in tho habit of
scorching nor of being out late at night.
The officer, on the other hand. is equally
as confident that he is not mistaken In his
identity of Harold Smith as the young
man he halted for scorching and who gave
him a wrong address, opposite the Bur-
bank, instead of Twenty-ninth and Main
street. The board could not fathom the
matter except by personal investigation,
but out of courtesy to Chief Glass 1t was
referred to him with instructions to report
to the board what he had learned at their
next meeting.
The chief made few suggestions as to
his men wear during the summer months.
He recommended white helmets and %
inch locust clubs. The men will wear their
old fatigue suits until the new ones are
made. The advisability of ordering winter
mackintoshes now was also referred to,
after which the report was approved and
the work ordered done.
Bart Gibbons, who runs saloon at First
and Main, and Henry Pfirman, In the same
business at First and Los Angeles streets,
complained to the board against the ac-
tions of Officer Henderson. They charge
him with making forcible entrance into
their places on Sunday, April 3d. and, In
his anxiety to see things. with breaking
down the door and demolshing furniture
and spelling costly curtains. The officer
In his statement, which is appended to
that of the complainants, justifies himself
by asserting that they were keeping open
resorts In defiance of the law regulating
the closing of dram shops on Sundays. The
matter was referred back to the chief for
investigation.
Eugene Bassett of 1245 Figueroa street,
complained to the board against Assistant
Dog Catchers Hemeers and vacher, whom
he accuses of going into his yard and TAX
ing therefrom his pet pug dog while his
wife stood there pleading with them to
refrain, and at that, Bassett says, they
cursed her. She offered them money If
only they would not take her pet to the
pound, but the unyielding men gathered
him In their net, into their wagon and into
the pound.