Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-05
WOOLWINE BENT
ON BITTER FIGHT
WILL APPEAR TODAY BEFORE
THE GRAND JURY
MAKES VIGOROUS REJoINDER TO
= CAPTAIN FREDERIcks
Stiqmatizes District Attorneys Inter-
view as Full of Inconsistencies.
Police Commission May Fire
Broadside In Battle
tContlnued from PAGE One,

view states: I have since heard his
story from beginning to end, ana
know that he has absolutely no evil
dence or shadow of evidence. | pre-
sumo he told the same story to the
grand jury This is a palpable at
tempt on his part to mislead the pub
lie, for I have never had any dis
cussion with this man, or anyone rep
resenting him, in relation to any evil
dence submitted, or to be submitted,
to the grand jury. 1 have given my
evidence to the grand jury only, ana
was before that body for an hour with
out any representative of the district
attorneys office being present-Fred-
ericks appearing only at the afternoon
session. In the face of this, he is so
unmindful of his oath of office as to
comment publicly upon the secret de-
liberations of that badly and to weigh
the entire evidence adduced, much of
which was given in his absence.
Quotes Fredericks' Letter
"In his letter of October l, after
quoting in substance complaint made
by me that l did not have a grand
Jury and a corps of detectives, he
uses this language: My Dear Mr..
Woolwine, you shall have all of these
We have something over a million dol
lars in our county vaults and author
necessary, in the detection of crime.
In his letter of the next day he states
| You may hire your own assistants
| detectives and the like, go before the
Grand Jury alone, use all the process
| of this Office for this purpose
'These statements are followed By
an interview in the morning papers
q. portion of which reads as follows
! The young man knows, IL he knows
any law at all, that extra deputy dis
trict attorneys cannot be paid by the
| county.' These inconsistent state
ments alone show that he never in
/ tended to furnish me any such assist
ants, and form only one evidence o
his absolute hypocrisy.
"He states that San Francisco
great graft exposure, with it's hun
cireds of indictments, was handled b.
but one attorney, assisted by man.
detectives, but by no other lawyer
even from the regular force OF tn
district attorney there This state
ment is false, for 1t is common knowl
edge that Mr.. Heney worked with
yerv large force of assistant attor
news, some of whom were lawyers o
IT shall not call attention to furthe
Inconsistencies in Frederick's inter
view, with which it fairly bristles."
What Fredericks Thinks
Captain Fredericks takes the atti
tude that If the prosecuting attorne
knows of vice he can tell IT as a pr
yate citizen. He said last night:
'Bigness and bravery do not cor
sist In wild declamations as to wha
one would do, or what anotner pa
done. hut consist in obtaining result
IF the young man has any informatio
of feionies committed it was his dut
as citizen to say nothing OF n
duty as an official, to present this ev
dence to me or to the grand Jul
before spreading it broadcast IN u
newspapers.
"After his statement of>what he pre-
posed to do. certainly, If there WEI
any evil doings going on in Los Al
! geies such as ne charges, they woul
r either cease or proceed with such cal
D ton that detection would be imposs
BILE. The utter futility of attempln