Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-04
LOGAN MURDER
MYSTERY CROWS
PASADENA AWAITS IN VAIN
FOR AN ARREST
coH Links Case Is Battling All Who
Study lt--lnteresting Explana-
ton Of Delay Is
offered
Pasadena Agency.
1914 East Colorado Street
Telephone Main Ib2.

PASADENA, June 3.-No arrests
have yet been made in the Logan MUIR
der mystery, and, according to the local
police, most Of the alleged clews un-
earthed during the past two weeks have
little II any real bearing on the case.
one Of the Los Angeles evening news
papers stated last night that certain
well known negro tailor had been ar
rested one week ago this evening on
suspicion of completely in the murder
of Logan, that after a severe sweat
ing'' by Chief Pinkham he was released
and that for the delay in accomplishing
anything in this case Chief Pinkham
has been severely called down by Mayor
Waterhouse. The chief emphatically
denies the truth of all three statements
and the mayor denies the. truth of the
last, so there you are.
1t is understood that Chief Pinlham
believes that the negro to whom so
many alleged clews point as having
had a hand in the murder is entirely
innocent. He will not make the arrest
urged so repeatedly upon him. For
that matter neither will Sheriff White
nor Marshal Reid of South Pasadena,
although the several pieces of circum-
stantial evidence are as well known as
them as to the local police department.
Officers at Work
1t is as certain that these men are
still industriously studying the Logan
case, unfortunately, however, each in
his own peculiar and independent
fashion. Occasionally each branch of
the constabulary steps aside to criticise
certain methods of the Others
1t is to be presumed therefore that
each one would be only too glad to
ho s,111rdpr-or. for N other
than to show the public that his own
imitation of Sherlock Holmes and his
methods is the only simon pure article
in use.
Added to this there is the very liberal
reward offered for the arrest and con-
viction of the murderer.
A man who has himself done some
independent investigation in this case
thinks that he is able to offer reason
why the officers go just so far in their
work and then make no arrests.
May Ruin One Man
He says that many of the clews when
followed a certain distance indicate
that young white man of good family
and high prospects was so implicated
in matters leading I'D to the murder
that were the real murderer arrested
and convicted this young white man
would be forever ruined before his fam
lily and before the world. In other
words this man first named says that
the officers, are afraid to go any further
without the most absolute and con-
vincing proof which they have not got.
In view of the past record of the men
known to be studying the case such
conclusion is deemed highly improb-
able by most of the people before whom
it is placed.
One thing is certain, that is that if
fho plaUg accent ed hW the eranara1 IoIIh-
lie as ncrminating are totally mislead-
ing and of no value as asserted by
some, the case is one of the most
battling ever known in this part of the
country.
AT any rate the apparent results of
two weeks effort by the police and
detectives of Los Angeles county at
ferreting out the perpetrator of a most
brutal and CHASTITY crime are absolutely
nothing.