Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-16
INVESTIGATION
OF PROTECTED
VICE HALTED
FREDERlCKS DENOUNCED AS
UNTRUE TO TRUST
CHIEF KERN CALLED BEFORE
lNQUlSlToRS
Representatives of TWO Branches of
City Government Summoned.
Saloon Proprietor Also
Questioned

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Woolwine's graft investigation tri-
Il umphed yesterday when Mr.. Wool
wine was summarily removed from the
office of deputy district attorney, a po-
sition to which he had been appointed
the day before.
The expected clash between District
| Attorney Fredericks and Mr.. Woolw1ne
came yesterday afternoon in the grand
jury room. What transpired no one
! present would say, but it is believed
| the session was a stormy one and that
Mr. Woolwine, believing he was being
hampered in every possible way by
| Captain Fredericks, Indignantly de-
nounced the latter.
Then came his discharge by Mr.
Fredericks, and the investigation of
graft in Los Angeles is where it
started.
Deputy constables yesterday watched
| Mr.. Woolwine's every movement. Two
| deputies sat in the hallway outside the
| grand jury room yesterday greedlly.
watching every movement Mr WOOL
| wine made When he came out one
| followed him. The same deputy
dogged his steps as he came into the
court house yesterday and shadoWed
him while he spent some time in one
of the court rooms on the lower MOOR
This surveillance is carried even TO
the extent of peering in the restaurant
Il
scan the bill of fare.
Fredericks Silent
Captain Fredericks yesterday main
| tained his policy of keeping quiet. He
would say nothing about his action,
nor would he discuss any phase OF
the matter.
Mr.. Woolwine showed that he felt
that affairs had relieved him of the
policy of silence he has been maintain
L, IL. xrier OF n fnf
in which he reiterated his former as
sertion that the mayor and police COM
missioners have protected vice. He de-
h cIared that the conduct of Captain
Fredericks Swas almost unbelievable IN
Tublic official. Mr.. WoolWine is
ready he says, to go ahead with MS
side of the case if he can obtain au-
thority to proceed.
Woolwine refused last night to talk
about his appearance before the grand
| jury. 1t was apparent at the court
house, however, that he had stirred
things up, and that the grand jury
heard his opinion of Captain Fred
ericks in vigorous terms. 1t is sur
/ missed that Woolwine turned himself
/ loose" and stigmatized the conduct of
Fredericks as crawling and coWardly
| in the extreme, asserting his confidence
/ in the grand jury and his entire Will
| ingness to probe matters if given the
necessary authority for any reason
able period.
The grand jury will meet again at
| 10 clock Saturday. Court house spec
ulation is over the probable attitude
toward Captain Fredericks and wheth-
er or not he will be forced back to
Ian allowance of authority for Wool
Wine 1t is admitted that WoolWine
is halted unless he can be provided
with the authority which Prosecuting
| Attorney FrederickS controls.
Police Blacklist
It was said yesterday that the po-
lice department had made up "black-
list" which included the names of a
number of patrolmen thought to be
in sympathy with WoolwiEe's course,
and that the orders would go out soon
TO "break" these men. They are SAID
to be officers of long service and good
records, but willing to testify If given
an opportunity.
Lively Day
Things began hopping about the cor
ridors in front of the tightly closed
doors of the grand jury room promptly
at 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon when
witnesses made their appearances one
after another, until eight persons were
seated in the wall chairs of the hall
way or scattered in small groups,
earnestly discussing among themselves
the causes which brought about their
| presence.
First came Mike Polaski. manager
| of the Hoffman bar. He walked up
| and down the hallway, nervously
swinging an umbrella or polking it into
imaginary holes in the floor. Then
Chief of Police Ed Kern made his ap-
| pearance, saying he had been sum
moned before the jury. He cheerfully
promised that he would reveal any
! thing that took place.
| MI tni ~ dnfnnfiyynG
followed, and few moments later DR..
! l.. M. Powers, city health officer Ben
Roberts, a newspaper reporter, indo-
| lently lolled on one of the seats near
the door, wearing the air of disin-
| terested spectator. John G. Zobelein,
| an official of the Los Angeles Brewing
| company, came next, accompanied by
]. H. Russell, formerly connected with
| the Union Hardware and Metal COM
| pany.
Thomas L. Woolwine, accompanied
by a friend, made his appearance fif-
| teen minutes after the grand jury be-
! gan it's session and was almost inn
mediately admitted to the grand jury
room together with Frank Hender-
son, a stenographer employed in de-
partment of the superior court. AS
the prosecuting attorney passed Dis
trict Attorney Fredericks, the latter
deep in consultation with Chief Kern
and Captain Flammer, both men stared
at each other, but not one word OF
greeting passed.
A moment after Woolwine's entrance
into the grand jury room the district
attorney followed Less than twenty
minutes elapsed before the city prose-
cutor emerged, angry of countenance,
but declining to make any statement
regarding what occurred in the secret
chamber.
Chief of Police Kern was the first
of the waiting witnesses to be sum-
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