Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-21
OFFICERS MAKE
GIGANTIC HAUL
MORE THAN HUNDRED CAUGHT
IN DRAGNET
pRUNksAND SUSPECTS ROUNDED
UP REMoRsELEssLY
Burglar Caught NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Think They Have in Custody
the "Long and Short"
Hghwaymen

Acting under the personal direction
of Chief of Police Edward Kern and
Capt. Thomas H. Broadhead, patrolmen
of the Los Angeles police department
spread a dragnet Saturday night and
last night, with the result that a hun
bred prisoners are now in the city jail
awaiting trial or investigation.
Determined to rid the city of unde-
sirable characters and clean the streets
of people who had no reasonable eX-
cuse for being found out at late and
unusual hours, Chief Kern ordered his
men to bring in everybody who failed
to explain his presence on the streets
In a satisfactory manner.
Every class of prisoner known to the
police was taken in the big haul, and
from drunk to burglary the desk blot
ter at the central station bristled with
MONIES of men and women of every
nationality.
What are regarded by the police as
the most important arrests were made
by Patrolmen Fisher, Level and Gilpin
and Special officer Brown.
Two men giving the names of Jim
Dinwiddie and C. A. Hawkins were
found n a resort near Third street and
Central avenue at 2:25 o'clock Sunday
Level Neither claimed residence in
Los Angeles, and both answered in a
general way to the descriptions given
of the "long and short highwaymen
who have been working the outlying
sections of the city for several weeks
past.
They were booked on suspicion and
will be held until the police are able
to investigate their records.
Pockets Full of Money
At 1870 o'clock Sunday morning Pa
trolman Gilpin ran down and arrested
in the railroad yards near Redondo
street two men of the name OF X. a.
Roxborough and A. W. Walker. For
the past two weeks they have been
hanging around the downtown section
of the city, and an investigation showed
that their days had been passed at the
Arcadia race race track and their
nights in roaming the streets. Both
were plentifully supplied with money,
and both were identified as men who
had been seen within q few minutes
after several reported robberies in the
immediate neighborhood of the places
plundered. They were booked on Sus-
picion and will be held pending an in
vestigation into their antecedents.
Dressed in clothes of costly material
and fashionable cut, a young man CIV
ing his name as Leo Altman was ar
rested at 230 o'clock Sunday morning
near the Catalina hotel on South Broad
way by Special Officer Brown and
booked at central station on charge
of burglary.
Altman was seen by the officer to
enter the hallway of the hotel. At
tracted by the mans manner Of walk
ing and queer conduct, the Waterman
followed him. He saw him go to a big
showcase in the hallway of the hotel
used by a French milliner to display
goods. break the lock on the same and
empty it of it's contents. consisting Of
trimmed hats, feathers and laces. The
officer followed Altman until he reached
the street and then arrested him.
Eighty eight prisoners altogether were
pulled in by the dragnet spread by the
police officials from p. m. Saturday
to daylight Sunday morning; Sunday
and Sunday night more than a score
were sent to the station and booked on
various charges. OF these forty-two
were ordinary DRINKS and the re
mainder were booked as suspicious, OF
for various small violations of the law
Until the town is rid of criminals of
all classes Chief of Police Kern pro-
poses to keep up the dragnet system
and make an end, for this winter at
least, of the so-called reign of crime in
Los Angeles.