Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-24
REWARD OFFERED
IN MURDER CASE
INACTIVITY IS CHARGED BY
L0GAN'S FRIENDS
Pasadena Still Much Concerned over
Week-oId Murder Near lts
Gates and Urges
Haste
Pasadena Agency,
16M East Colorado Street.
Telephone Main 752.


PASADENA. May 23.-Public concern
is still aroused over the brutal murder
Of James A. Logan, which occurred a
short distance south of the Hotel Ray
mond last Friday night and there. is
much comment upon the fact that al
though nearly week has elapsed since
the crime no arrests have been made,
and as far as appears on the surface
nothing is being done to- apprehend the
guilty parties.
1t is the general belief that the MUIR
derer or murderers are right here in
Pasadena and yet 1t looks as though
the case has been as good as dropped.
When questioned about the affair the
peace officers one and all remark that
ut is up to Sheriff White" and that
if he is doing anything they do not
know Of it,,
1t was Announced today that r. G..
Owens, negro living in Los Angeles,
has offered q. reward of 5000 for the ar
rest and conviction of the man who
committed the crime. owens was not
acquainted with the murdered man, but
is said to think that some incentive
was needed to hasten the leaden feet
of justice, particularly as the dead man
was negro.
1t remains to be seen whether the
promised reward will have the desired
effect.
An evening newspaper relates tonight
the discovery of young woman in Los
Angeles who claims to know the men
who killed Logan. She is a Miss Will
son, a colored chambermaid at the
Hotel Valdemar, at the corner of Hope
and Sixth street, and she asserts that
on Friday night white man, whose
name she does not give telephoned to
Logan as if from Los Angeles and
asked him for a meeting near the Ray"
mond hotel; that once there this white
man lured Logan to the lonely spot
away from the road where another
man, a Mexican, was concealed, and
that the Mexican then did the killing.
According to the story Miss Wilson
is coming to Pasadena on Saturday to
tell her story to the authorities, and
with them to confront the murderers.
The authorities are inclined to laugh
at the story as the result of disor-
dered imagination. But if there is any
thing more than this in what the young
woman says every opportunity will be
given her to make good.
Meanwhile there Is possibility that
the local police may develop an impor-
tant side of the case, although the mur-
der was committed outside of the city
and is therefore solely in the province
of the sheriff.
Poultry Is BroiIed
At an early hour this morning the
fire department was summoned to 260
Center street, a lively fire being in
progress at the barn belonging to Mrs.
]. D. Tracy 1t was a brisk fire and
\ Il 10 IttiI6inp with
it's contents, being kept from spread
ing by the efforts of the fire depart
ment Mrs. Tracy had fine chicken
brooder in a shed attached to the barn
and filed with newly hatched chicks.
1t is supposed that the fire resulted
from the explosion Of the lamp with
which the brooder was heated. The
chicks were roasted. Loss on the build
ing and contents will reach two or
three hundred dollars.
Grown City Notes
President David Starr Jordan will
speak upon THE Young Men of the
Twentieth Century" at the approaching
high school commencement.
Tomorrow will be confirmation day
at st. Andrews Catholic church, Rt
Rev. Bishop Conaty confirming class
of about fifty. There will be an elabo-
rate musical program and the lavish
floral decorations of the church are
from the Adolphus Busch gardens.
The auxiliary of the Amaranth will
hold another all-day sewing at the Ma
sonic temple tomorrow the garments
to 20 to the San Francisco sufferers
Members of the order are urged to be
present and friends will be welcomed.
1t is announced that the corner stone
of the new First Presbyterian church
now building at the corner of Madison
avenue and East Colorado street will
be laid with appropriate ceremonies on
Saturday afternoon June 2, at o'clock
The details OF this program have not
yet been prepared.
Switzer's camp, for many years re-
garded as one of the prettiest summer
camps in this part of the Sierra Madre
range, will be opened again on June To-
The company of Pasadena men pushing
the project is composed of j. G. Brain
ard, C. S. Martin and Louis F. Brown
Edward Wyman driver for the Model
grocery, suffered a dislocation of his
elbow last evening by being thrown
from his wagon, his horse being fright
ened by an automobile driven by Coun-
Gilman Braley.
The local board of education has fin
ally announced its intention of buy
ing the additional site requested by
the east side people for the new Grant
school building. 1t has also authorized
the purchase of the six lots at the
corner of Rosemont street and Vernon
avenue for the northwest site. Archi-
tect Edwards has been asked to present
designs for a two-room addition to the
Linda Vista school building.