Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-07
REAGAN EXPLAINS
RESTAURANT DEAL
SAYS MAYOR DEMANDED A
CHANGE IN VOTE
Former Police Commissioners Gives
Damaging Testimony Against Ac.
cused Chief Executive of
San Francisco
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men their licenses. If we can't dc
anything else I'll have to remove Hut
ton," the mayor said. Drinkhouse SAID
he always had favored them and would
continue to. 1 said 1 was prepared tc
vote for them. Commissioner Reagan
did not say much of anything. The
mayor said he would not compel Rea-
gan to drop his opposition to them"
Did you personally know why Com
! missioner Hutton was to be removed
before he was removed? Did you
carry some papers from Ruef's office
| to the mayors office on the day Hut
| ton was removed?"
YES Mr.. Ruef handed me the
papers removing Mr.. Hutton and joked
about them. 1 carried them to the
mayors office and delivered them"
Continuing under the question of Mr..
| Heney Dr. Poheim said:
Mr.. Ruef in his office showed me
| the regulations for the government of
| the French restaurants before he sub
mitted them to the police board"
| Mr.. Heney brought out that the reg
| ulation doing away with bed chambers
below the second floor" was blind
| because, with one exception, there had
never been any such rooms except on
! floors above the second.
During all of the time he was on
the stand Dr. Poheim avoided glancing
! in the mayors direction. Mr.. Schmitz
occasionally raised his eyes to the wit
ness but dropped them quickly to his
hands, which were employed almost all
the time in tearing pieces of paper
into bits.
Forced to Pay $4,000
At this time there was deadlock
in the board, its members being un-
able to agree on chairman.
Mr.. Campbell tried to have DR.. Po-
helm say that this appointment to the
police board was secured for him
through the influence of DR.. James
Ward.
HE may have helped to get it for
me-" was the reply. "I once thought I
owed the appointment to Mr.. Ruef.
but l now believe that it was due di-
rectly to the mayor himself"
DR.. Poheim, under redirect examina-
ton, admitted that he and Ruef had
laughed together over the regulation
requiring the French restaurants to
keep hotel register.
Knowing those places as we did"
said the doctor, "we did not think
register would make much difference
in the manner of their conduct"
Antonio B. Blanco, formerly propri-
etor of the New Poodle Dog restaurant,
was the next witness called.
He said that together with Joseph
Malfanti, proprietor of Delmonico's, and
Pierre Priet, owner of Marchand's, he
called on the mayor at his office to see
If he could do something for them
to help protect their licenses. The
mayor said he would call meeting of
the police commissioners and take the
matter up" This meeting was held
and some of his fellow proprietors at
tended. Nothing was done. Blanco i'm
mediately afterward was called on by
Jean Loupe, manager of Adler's res
taurat1t, who notified him to attend
meeting of the restaurant men at Ad-
ler's the following day. Loupe sug-
gested that they employ an attorney
and suggested Ruef, saying that he
would call on Ruef and see what he
would do.
"Hadn't he already seen Ruef?"
asked Heney.
"I don't remember if he said so, but
a couple of days later we met at Del
monicos.
"At this meeting Pierre Priet said he
had seen Mr.. Ruef and Mr.. Ruef said
he would defend our case If we would
pay him $4,000, and $4,000 of that must
be paid down. the other $4,000 a year
later"
Mr.. Heney refreshed the witness
meeting Loupe mentioned $1,000 as the
sum required. If Ruef took the case.
Then Pierre Priet said he was not sat
isfed he would go and see Mr.. Ruef
himself.
1--WE got together after the second
meeting and decided to put up the $1O,-
900 for Mr.. Ruef."
"Why did you pay this money!"
asked Heney.
ITO save our licenses. I myself had
100000 invested in the New Poodle
Dog"
"Did you have an attorney of your
own at that time?"
"Yes-Harry T. Creswell. He is still
my attorney"
"Why didn't you entrust this license
to him, then?"
1.-THE others said Mr.. Ruef was the
man to do it for US. Being the political
boss we thought he had enough inf1u-
ence to get our licenses back for us.
That was my only reason. Afterward
I gave Malfanti another $1,000 to pay to
Mr.. Ruef. I would not have paid these
moneys if had not feared that other
wise I would not get my license, and
nv business would be ruined"
At this point adjournment was taken
until 10 o'clock tomorrow morning.
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