Sunday Washington globe., 1902-06-22
TO JUDGE KIMBALL
T his Beautiful Roast of Mr..
Luscombe Is Sent
BY ARTIST RAYMOND
The Pathetic Case Of Mrs. Herbert
and the Noble Defense OfThat Per-
secuted Lady by Mr. Raymond
This Letter VIII Reach the Judge
All Right Through the Globe"

| JUDGE l. G. KIMBALL,
/ DEAR SIR: Permit me to kindly call your
attention to- case recently passed upon by
| Assistant Prosecutor Givens, who, unin-
/ tentionaly did the complainant, Mrs. Herr
| bert, grave mi Justice. My object in doing
| So however, is not to have the case re-
| opened as I am willing that the defendant
shall have a chance to profit by a timely
| warning, but have reasons for fearing that
the end has not been reached; therefore /
desire to throw some light upon the case,
that responsibility for what follows may
fall where it properly belongs. might
say, too, that keenly appreciate the wise
and prudent exercise of judgment in Mr.,
Mullowny's Office as we'll as his desire to
be courteous and fair under trying crcum-
stances, therefore / will not be understood
as more than mildly reproving Mr.. Givens
for failing to examine the complainant's
seven reputable witnesses before disposing
OF the case.
Here let me say that on or about the 9Th
inst, / sent note to Mr.. Mullowny by Mrs.
Herbert requesting him to give her a war
rant for Charles r. Luscombe for threats.
He sent her to the warrant clerk to get It,
but he told her that she would have to bring
a witness along in order to obtain one.
"A few days later Luscombe, who learned
that Mrs. Herbert was about to have him
arrested, told a neighbor that Mrs Herbert's
son, seven years of age, had struck her
three-year old daughter in the back with a
club. He had her strip the child for
evidence and she found blue-black bruises
that looked more like cruel pinch-marks Of
a two.legged brute than what could be pro-
duced by baby6ed lad. Next he advised
her to procure warrant for the boy, pre-
sumably that he might play the part of a
star witness to offset the charge against
himself.
THE day on which the warrant was sworn
out for this boy, Luscombe went to this
poor woman's door again, wrathy from an
ungovernable temper and fred with
whisky, where without the slightest prov
ocation, he assaulted her in a most shame
less threatening manner. then asked her
why she had not taken out a warrant for
him, and between sobs and tears she told
me that she had no money to pay car fare
for herself and a witness then went with
her and procured one.
when LuscOmbe told Mr.. Civens that he
saw the little urchin club the child and
heard his mother tell him to do so, he in
dignantly exclaimed. Sir! think you are
lying and / would not believe a word out
of your mouth But when the case against
him was under consideration, with a big
fee up for his attorney, who knew what was
behind it and how deep to sound his
poe kets, Mr. Ciyens ignored the complain
ants witnesses and tnrned him loose on a
personal bond
Now let us weigh this man and woman in
the scales of honesty, as you, undoubtedly,
would have done, then let the public meas
ure them by the rule of common sense and
find out which is at fault
He has had so many persons arrested
upon trumped up charges, he is a neigh
borhOod terror. He has the people for half
a mile around up in arms, as it were. on ac-
count of a roaring buzz saw nuisance up
against this poor woman's back window,
VIII ich the Commissioners and our self
adulated Chief of Police know is being
operated by dangerous gasoline engine in
a frame structure for wood yard purposes
in gross violation of law They know as
well as you do that it should have been en-
closed by brick walls with ceiling doors and
shutters covered with metal, but they evil
IDENTIFY, smell a scandal beneath the building
inspectors delinquency that tempts them
to poo, poo the matter as too trivial to take
up their precious time, nevertheless 1t is
failure 10 remedy little things in life, that
oppress the poor, that has shown up. most
vivid1y, the littleness of many an officials
swell headed imaginary greatness. But
that is pot all This defiant violator of the
law had the writer transfer his property to
a brother, and gave as a reason for doing so,
that he had told Mr.. William Hahn that
Mr.. Herbert mployed by him as a cobbler.
4. 4.
was selling them to colored neighbors,
advised him to prove in court what he had
charged him with, as a transfer to avoid re-
sponsibilitY for such vile accusation might
be annulled to satisfy judgment. He then
said that the 'niggers' to whom he sold
them had left the city, and urged me to lose
no time, as Herbert whom he expected to
be discharged the next day had threatened
to sue him for SANDER, and In a few days he
was discharged.
He had represented this poor woman to
me as one who was so low she had been run
out of the Division. In my presence he
called her the vilest names that ever polluted
the lips or stained the heart of the most
hardened wretch that ever lived. But there
she stood as mute as lamb under the glitter
of a butchers knife. Like Magdalena Of
~tNf a NAeAkhA 9AN Wda Ab0 NNNRAy 4IEn III
sin TO speak in her own defense upbraided
him on account Of his cowardly conduct
and told him, that no matter how common
she was, II would go hard with him if she
sh ould take him into court but he simply
jeered.
Now judge imagine my CONSERVATION
if you can my feelings, when this
poor woman made herself known to me as
the daughter of an old friend of better days;
an innocent victim of shameless abuse; a
woman of pure life; a woman whose fathers
remains we helped to carry to his grave;
woman who was in his helplessness and in
the golden days Of girlhood his joy and
support
Now think of her assailant as having
heart as callous as the dead, as cold as ice,
and as black as the ink with which / write.
Think of him as mercilessly attacking her
honor; as slashing her virtue and as
Dutchering her character in a manner to
make ones blood run cold. Then turn
again to this poor woman bearing the brunt
Of outrage without a murmur Watch her