Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-16
AROUND TOWN
Clerk Steals from Employer

Olcfk OIeaiS from Employer
Albert C. Walker, a clerk employed by c.
| c. Desmond. clothier at Third and Spring
streets, pleaded guilty in Police Justice Aus
tins court yesterday afternoon to stealint
some hats and suit from his employer,
and will appear for sentence today.
Fined for Theft
! Police Justice Frederickson yesterday fined
r. L. Wilkinson $40 for stealing a watch
belonging to e. ]. Lack, architect The
watch taken from the vest which Lack
/ left hanging in a house in course of con-
struction on oxford near Tenth street.
/ Burglary Is Charge
/ Philip Cooper was arraigned in Police JUS
tlce Austlns court yesterday on charge
| of burglary and his preliminary hearing was
set for Saturday morning Cooper is accused
/ of stealing $50 from the cash register in
the Greeneaf restaurant, 224 East Fifth
/ street
Wanted in the South
/ Detective Sergeant s. J. Roberts of the
| Atlanta, Ga, police department, arrived from
/ San Francisco yesterday having in custody
f. Long a railroad clerk. who arrested
in the northern city short time ago on a
warrant from Atlanta charging him with
felony embezzlement.
Held for Trial
/ Horand Burton who arrested several
! days ago with full kit of burglar tools in
/ his possession and who Is charged with bur
Glary, was given his preliminary examination
before Police Justice Austin yesterday and
held to answer in the superior court in bonds
of $500.
Former Jack Tar in Trouble
Deputy District Attorney Arthur Keetch yes
terday issued a complaint against Roy Cur
/ it's a former man-o' warsman, who recently
was discharged from the navy, charging MIN
with defrauding an lnnkeeper. The complaint
/ was sworn to by Mrs. d. Morris of 121 North
/ Flower street.
/ Car Crew Exonerated
/ rhturup6
/ by the coroner's jury at the inquest held at
! the morgue of Pierce Brothers over the body
of John Morton Fowler, a carpenter OF 10
| Ganahl street, who was crushed between a
1 Brooklyn avenue and a Hollywood car
] Saturday night at the plaza. The car ere"
| was exonerated.
/ Masonic Committee Here
committee from the state Masonic grand
lodge is In Los Angeles to consider the propo-
| sition to make the Masonic home an lnsti-
| tuition open to Masons throughout California
and under the control of the grand lodge
| The committee is holding conferences with
| the directors of the Southern California Ma
sonic Home association, who favor the project
Pleads Not Guilty
T I Roriok who was arrested Monday aft
ernoon for buying bicycles from minors, and
! the police say, induced lads to steal bicycles
by offering them 81 each for all wheels tney
| would bring him, was arraigned in Police
| Justice Austin's court yesterday on eharge
of failing to report purchases Of second-nand
goods He pleaded not guilty and his trial
/ was set for December IL. He was given MS
liberty under bonds of S1OO
Has Bad Luck
IT'S Just my luck to become disabled when
Christmas is almost here" said Charley
! Woods, a laborer employed by the simpson
1 Fruit company, when he was taken to che
receiving hospital for treatment for Sc
verely sprained ankle. Woods was helping
unload fruit car on Alameda near Flftn
street. He climbed to the top of the car and
was attempting to raise ventilator when
! the cover came off and he fell backward 70
/ the ground.
Would Bar Factories
/ An ordinance to prevent the erection Of
! fertilizer factories within a mile OF the pouh-
/ daries of any incorporated city or town OF
/ within mile of any open and Travelled ROAD
| was introduced at yesterdays meeting or
/ the hoard of supervisors by Supervisor VIII
/ SON Penalty for violation of the ordnance
| Is fixed at $500 fine or six months m
| prisonment in the county jail, or both. me
/ ordinance was taken under Amusement. one
| of the principal objects of the new law, II
| ie said Is TO forestall the proposed erection
| of fertilizer factory in the river pea, near
/ Iaguna ranch, which is in Wilson's distrlct'
Gets an OVercoat
An old game was SUCCESSFULLY worked on
/ Charles w Ennis, proprietor of a clothing
store at 245-47 South Spring street. ana ne
| is looking for young man VINO walked away
| with a valuable overcoat. well dressed
smooth snoken man entered the place yester-
dav morning and asked to be shown some
| overcoats He finally selected one and put II
| on then walked to the mirror tor announcer
| view of IT, AS he stepped toward the glass
another customer came IN ana tne sstes, nsr
| who had been waiting on the oVercoat Pur-
| chaser stepped forward to wait on MIN. Inc
/ MAJ, with the overcoat took advantage OF lhls
and stepped out the door.