Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-02
HELD ON MORE
SERIOUS CHARGE
PRISONER SHRINKS FROM Ex-
TRADITION
East st. Louis Man Arrested At Pasa-
dena Not Anxious to Return.
viii Vote on Sunday
Concerts
Pasadena Agency,
81 North Raymond Avenue.
Telephone. Main 1903.


PASADENA. Dec. mike" Claviu,
the ex-saloonkeeper from East St
Louis, ILL.,, now confined in the local
police station lookup and awaiting the
arrival OF an officer from his home town
to take him back, is alleged to have a
darker crime to answer for than simple
embezzlement from the brewing firm
which furnished him liquor Chief
Pinkham has had advices from East
st. Louis to the effect that Clavin is
charged with having stolen nearly $4,000,
the entire property of two orphaned
children under his care. When the
father died he left the two children
$1,000 life insurance. Clavin was ap-
pointed their guardian and his friend,
one Jerry Kane, went his bond. Clavin
is said to have squandered the money
and disappeared. Kane and the East
st. Louis police and people became
wildly indignant and used every effort
to capture ClaVin. Clavin came to Los
Angeles and finally became frightened
and tried to make another move. He
came to Pasadena to take the train in
order to throw the Los Angeles police
off his track Chief Pinkham arrested
him in a few hours after he reached
here. The prisoner does not fancy go
ing back to face the orphans and his
former friends.
o Vote on Concerts
Charles Grimes who has assumed the
leadership of those favoring Sunday
afternoon band concerts, has hit upon
a plan for determining just how the
people of the city stand upon this ques-
ton. Within a few days blank petit
tions for and against band concerts will
be scattered throughout the city and
every voter will be urged to express
his opinion one way or the other These
petitions will be collected and pre-
sented to the city commissioners at
their meeting of Monday afternoon, De-
cember 1. 1t is stated that enough of
the commissioners have stated that
they will vote to give the use of one
of the citys parks for band concerts
if the majority of the people want
them, to reverse the boards former de-
cision. There is a feeling that the
holding of last Sundays concert in q
private lot opposite a city park after a
majority of the commissioners had
voted against allowing the concerts has
lost the movement some of the sup
port it would otherwise have had
Conference Opens for Work
The second annual Older Boys con-
ference of the Y. M. G. A. of Southern
California began this afternoon with
a very encouraging attendance. Large
delegations reported from each or the
associations in the conference were
provided with red and white badges
and lodged about the city as the guests
of the local association.
During the afternoon gymnastics
formed the chief attraction, both out
door and indoor and tonight the bust
ness of the conference was taken up
with the naming of a committee on
nominations which will report tomor-
row the permanent officers. There will
be addresses tomorrow by George Hol-
man and Ainsley Graham of Riverside,
by Ebert Belts, Albert Messenger and
William Reginald Ream of Los Ange-
les and at 8 p. m II. E. Sharp of Los
Angeles will speak on Bows Camps