Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-01
GALLAGHER IN
SECLUSION HERE
TARGET FOR MANY BOMBS IS
IN LOS ANGELES
FORMER SAN FRANCISCO SUPER
VISOR TALKS OF GRAFT
Believes Indifference of Some Who
Formerly Aided Prosecution Is
Great Hindrance to Langdon
and Heney Forces
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one-third and the assessment roll was
correspondingly diminished.
Notwithstanding this fact, the af-
fairs OF the city were conducted so that
every department was rehabilitated.
About thirty or forty schoolhouses
were erected; numerous firehouses
built; several police stations estab
lished and the furniture, apparatus,
supplies, etc, necessary to resume bus
mess were all purchased and paid for
out of the funds of the (then) present
fiscal year, under a tax rate of 81 on
each 500, as provided in the charter
when we consider that out of this
ordinary fund also the city spent hun
dreds of thousands of dollars in recon-
structing the hall of record, repairing
streets and removing debris, and that
every bill contracted was paid in full,
every employee paid his wages in full,
and that the records showed not one
cent Of deficit at the end of the fiscal
year. when affairs were turned over
to another board of supervisors, it
would seem that the statement that the
funds of the city were wasted or stolen
is so palpably groundless as not even
to require a denial.
GAS to the dealings with the corpo-
rations, 1 have testified so frequently
concerning them that it would be use
statement on that subject. l shall, of
course, expect to hear my share of
whatever blame or fault lies in those
transactions.
However, it should be understood
that whatever moneys were received
in those transactions did not come
from the city treasury. So far as the
public was concerned, L think it could
be shown, if time and space were given
to it, that the good things done for the
city by the board of supervisors and
the money saved to. the city by the
most rigid economy and careful atten-
ton to the city's finances, were of ten
times the value of any money received
by the members of the board.
after the earthquake and fire OF
1906 the people generally were advo-
eating the doubling of the rate of tax
alton, under the impression that it
would be necessary. 1t is now gener-
ally recognized that to have done so
would have kept out eastern capital,
prevented many large institutions
from resuming business and would
have been of incalculable injury to the
city.
1.-THE board of supervisors had the
power to increase the rate of taxation,
in accordance with the public demand.
The fact that 1t did not do so. but pre-
ferred to conduct the tvs affairs
upon a greatly reduced income-due to
the destruction of tax sources-would
seem to be, to say the beast, incom-
patible with a desire to rob the city
treasury.
Attempts at Assassination
with regard to the attempt to as
sassinate me by blowing up my home
and later my other property with dy-
Mantle, I think the public generally
has felt and expressed as strong con-
demnation of such a cowardly and in
human attack as 1 myself could feel.
1.-The destruction of life and prop
erty by the use of dynamite and other
high explosives is placed by all think
ing persons in the same category with
the poisoning of wells, the derailing of
trains, etc. Such an offense is so helm
Gus that we hesitate to express an
opinion concerning the participation of
any particular person in the outrage.
From the statements reported to
have been made by John Claudianos,
who was arrested as a result of con-
fession he made to obtain a reward
offered for the dynamiters by a San
Francisco newspaper, it would seem
that he had some hand in the matter.
Whether the real instigator will be
apprehended is a matter upon which
I have no means of forming an opinion
other than that possessed by all VINO
read the newspapers"
Both James L. Gallagher and his
r1ther Tom expect to return to San
Francisco very soon. The former SUI
pervisor will be detained there until
the final disposition of the many graft
cases is made.
Although expressing no opinion as to
the guilt or innocence of the three
Greeks accused of dynamiting his
property and attempting his life. Mr..
Gallagher seemed anxious for the APP
prehension of Peter ClaudianoS and
Felix Padeauvaris, accused by John
Claudianos, the formers brother, with
being the real executors of the out
RACES.
John Claudianos saw reward Of
$1,000 i'm one of the San Francisco
papers for the arrest and CONVICTION of
the dynamiters: and it is claimed.
having been refused share of the
money paid for the commission of the
crime. he answered the lad" and made
an alleged confession duplicating his
brother, Peter. and Felix Padeauvaris.
The latter is said to be a hanger
on of Abe Ruef and a / other-in-laW
of Claudianos' wife.
Mr.. Gallagher stated that if these
men were guilty he was not so anxious
to punish them as he was to punish
the person or persons whom he evil
IDENTIFY believes paid a big bride to
have him assassinated.
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