Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-12
ARRESTS MADE
IN MURDER CASE
SOUTH PASADENA MARSHAL IS
AFTER TAILOR JAX0N
Pasadena Negro and His White EN-
poye Arrested on Same Day.
Claims to Have an
Abb
Pasadena Agency,
16b East Colorado Street
Telephone Main 752.


PASADENA. June Ill. G. G. Jaxon
a negro tailor living at 25t South Pasa
dena avenue, was arrested late this
evening charged with being implicated
In the murder Of James A. Logan,
whose mutilated body was found lying
In a ditch below the Hotel Raymond
Saturday morning, May 10. The ar
rest was quietly made by Marshal NJ.
3. Reid of South Pasadena. who has
been working diligently upon the case
ever since the discovery of the body of
Logan.
Jaxon was Immediately taken to Los
Angeles, where he will be placed in
the county Jail awaiting his hearing.
Some days ago Jaxon employed Hahn
g. Hahn of this city and Los Angeles
as his attorneys to protect him in a
legal way from the annoying rumors
which were even then flying around
and pointing to him as having come
sort of guilty knowledge of the Logan
murder.
Jaxon communicated with his attor-
neys Immediately upon his arrest this
evening. and they state that as soon
as possible tomorrow morning they
will begin habeas corpus proceedings
to secure their clients release.
The past three weeks have been
strenuous ones for Jaxon. owing to the
persistence with which those searching
for evidence in the Logan case clung
to him, questioning and watching and
studying all of his doings and every
thing connected with his family affairs.
Saws He Has an AIibi
Jaxon claims to be able to establish
an alibi, and his attorneys assert that
1t cannot be successfully controverted.
Chief of Police Pinkham has repeated
ly stated that in his opinion Jaxon was
not in any way connected with the
murder of young Logan, and other per-
sons who have followed the case are as
positive that nothing but trouble will
follow any one who attempts to fasten
the crime upon the tailor.
Word came to Pasadena today to the
effect that Peter Goldie. a white man
employed in JaXon's tailor shop at the
time of the murder, has been arrested
at Brockton, Mass. at the request of
Sheriff White as being able to give i'm
portant testimony Goldie left Jaxon's
employ two days. after the murder.
Things are actually beginning to hap
pen in the Logan murder mystery and
as was predicted there will no doubt
be busy times now that the first arrest
has been made. Marshal Eeid told The
Herald a few days ago that he was
determined not to make an arrest un-
til he had in his possession absolute
evidence sufficient to convict 1t is to
be presumed, therefore, that Jaxon is
In a very serious predicament.
For several days past the representa-
tive. negroes of this city and Los An
geles have been circulating a subscrip-
tion paper in the endeavor to raise a
fund of $500 to add to the 5000 offered
by Robert c. Owens of Los Angeles,
thus offering reward of $1,000 for the
arrest and conviction of the murderer
of James A. Logan. The subscription
paper contains this suggestive sent
ence: "This crime is one of the most
heinous ever committed in this state
and yet we hear of no official reward
having been offered to bring the guilty
ones to justice"
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