Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-18
COUNTY LEADS
IN CONVICTIONS
RECORD HERE HIGHER EVEN
THAN JER0ME'S
More Than Ten Thousand Mlsdemean-
ors Tried In Three Years-Per-
slstent Prosecution Of Un-
licensed Liquor Houses

In a report received yesterday in Los
Angeles from the attorney general. this
county. under the slkillful dictatorship
OF Capt. John d. Fredericks, district
attorney, has managed to convict more
criminals during the past three years
than any other county in the state,
while the local record Is placed even
higher than that of Jerome's Office in
New York.
Some time ago a request was handed
Capt. Frederlcks for a report Of local
! cases for the past few years and Dep
uty District Attorney John North and
stenographer were put to work look
ing up convictions and sentences.
When the report was finally printed
the showing was so unusually good
that several local societies yesterday
called for copies, and in the future the
clover work of the district attorneys
office will be used in advertising Los
Angeles throughout the east.
Favorable Comparisons
The best feature of the report, how
ever, is that, although Los Angeles
has long list of criminal cases. other
counties have far longer list without
one-half the number of convictions,
speaking well for the local methods
used in prosecuting the cases.
In general report of the blind pigs
or unlicensed liquor houses put out of
commission during the past three years,
Capt. Fredericks shows where the
county has secured $4,000 clear in fines
from that source of revenue while the
county has been practically purged of
one of it's worst evils. This result in
particular has been due to a great ex-
tent to the work of Deputy Edward l..
Fleming.
The staff at the district attorneys
office at present is represented by the
following deputies: Judge C. C. Nc
Comas, assistant district attorney;
Hartley Shaw. chief deputy district at
torney; Deputies e. L. Fleming, H. S.
G. Mccartney Paul Mccormick, Maj.
Donnell. Judge David Allen and John
North at the court house and Attor-
ney Asa Keyes at the police station.
Following is the report of the MUIR
ders of the county for the past three
years as named in the report
Murder Cases
c. Temple, not guilty; A. Garcia,
guilty, So years; G.. S. Hansler, guilty,
life; Frank Seppi, guilty, 10 years; N.
NJ. Melrose, not guilty: Archie Hill,
guilty, life; Wong Bin, guilty, life; r.
Daugherty, guilty. 10 years; S. Her
nandez, guilty. life; A. Hercules.
guilty, life Margarito Rios. guilty, 5
years; Rafael Guillot, guilty, 10 years:
jose Salazar, case dismissed c. E.
Pierce, guilty, life; Philip Lee, guilty,
30 years; c. M. Carpenter, guilty, 5
years. ]. w. Beart, guilty, 20 years;
Bud B. Green, guilty, 10 years; James
Green. case dismissed: Ed Carter, not
guilty, judge advised jury to acquit
John O'Brien, guilty, 10 years: Juan
A. Puebla, guilty, life; Rosie Taylor,
guilty; John Mcclure. guilty, death;
G. G. Champion, guilty, life; E. L. c.
Merkel, guilty, life; F. Rogers, guilty,
10 years; ]. Snaidecki, guilty, death;
John Condor guilty, life; D. w. Helm,
not guilty; M. H. Williamson guilty,
20 years; Ascension Vela, guilty, g.
years; Remedio Munos, not guilty;
Eliseo Lopez, guilty, probation; Isa
Medel, guilty 10 years; Morris Buck,
case still pending; SO cases, 2 dismiss
ed: "a tried; acquitted; 20 convicted;
executed; 10 sentenced for life.
Ten Thousand Misdemeanors
The number of misdemeanor cases
tried by the district attorneys office
during three years reaches an aggre-
gate of more than ten thousand.
In addition to the above cases it
should be remembered that nearly all
OF the seventy and more liquor selling
social clubs. which were running in
defiance of law, when Capt Fredericks
went into office, speedily closed their
doors when informed by the new dis
trict attorney that they would be
prosecuted if they did not do so.
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