Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-12
GRAFT WITNESS
OSWALD NAMES
TWO AS DUPES
REFORMER AND ATTORNEY ARE
MADE VICTIMS
IN CASE AGAINST 5ROADHEAD
TELLS SENSATIONAL STORY
Former Boss of RedIieht District
Naively Relates How He Manipu-
lated Men and Money to
Further His Ends
n EvELATIoNs of a startling nature

N EVELATIONS of a startling nature
X were made yesterday in the trial of
AU Thomas II. Broadhead on a charge
of accepting a bribe paid to insure police
protection FOR the redlight district pro- |
| NOTED by Nicholas d. oswald. TWO
other names, by Oswalds testimony, |
were added to the long list of those
! who are declared to nave assisted tne
| redlight chief in establishing the crib
district as a successful business VEN
ture. but without attaching to them
any stigma of guilty knowledge of the
! end they appear to have served in all
/ unconsciousness and with purpose
morally remote from that which actu- !
ated Oswald.
The Rev. Wiley J. Phillips, according |
to the testimony OF the witness, was
enlisted in the furtherance of oswald
| business interests in the underworld. !
| After telling of efforts he had made to
get the men he charges with being his
partners in infamy, former Chlef OIL
! Police Kern and former Mayor Harper, |
! to effect the closing of houses of pros |
| titutjon conducted by Tom Savage he |
cause they interfered with the fullest
success of Oswald's own crib district
the witness testified: -
"I gave Detective Blair 800 or $500, |
Pve forgotten which, for inducing Phil-'I
| lips to swear to a complaint against
! Tom Savage. [ had sent man to his
| places. the Arlington and Belmont, 10
| secure evidence, and he got It, rms
was shown to Phillips, and he was per-
! suaded to swear to the complaint
AT the same time | tried to get
woman who was working for Green
wald as bookkeeper to circulate petl-
ton | had prepared for the property |
owners in the district where SaVages
houses We're, protesting against the
I'tolerating of houses of i'll fame AT
/ .,o fO dO If but ]
finally circulated the petition and Sc
cured the signatures on my promise to
pay her well.
Loucks an Unconscious Tool
| "I also had Blair engage Attorney |
Robert j. Loucks.'
! 'e,rhe young lnoral reformer?' inter- |
! jected Attorney Appel with a grin
Yes He was engaged as special |
counsel for. the prosecution of Savage
tthough he did not appear In the case.
I gave Blair the money to pay HIM"
| The witness was asked il he had been
actuated by anger at Savage and an
swered no.
your one object. then" pursued APP
pei, 'was to purify one part or the
eitv and TO profit by the establishment
of the same sort of district IN an
other?"
IT was not trying to purify any
thing" responded Oswald.
And you had the Rev. Wiley j. Phil
lips working for YOU? asked the attor-
ney with a grotesque grimace of glee.
dYes, in way, but l guess he didn't
know he was"
And Mr. Loucks?"
"He didn't know IL, either"
In this way was shown the manner
in which conflicting social forces may
be made to serve the same ultimate
end when guided by man who, though
of narrow mental equipment, knew eX-
actly what he wanted to get done. and
had learned in the school of life itself.
in the dregs of life, how the forces of
society may be used.
All of the testimony in this connec-
tion was read to Oswald yesterday
from the official transcript of the pro-
ceedings of the last grand jury and
verified by the witness on the stand.
Savage was acquitted" the witness
went on, but we kept him in hot water
for a good while. No. Harper and
Kern had nothing to do with doing
that. IT was just little side show of
mine. 1 told Harper ] was going to do
1t. though, and he said it was all
right"
Sought Appointment of Relative
Questioned regarding his conferences
with the since recalled mayor, the wit
ness stated he had not spoken to Har-
per after the meeting in the German
Wi1ll6 lilS ItCdii GlGCliNkti heeS
pending, when Harper is described as
! rendering his sympathy to the closed
| out redlight chief in place of the
| financial aid which Oswald sought to
secure from the political defense fund
of the fallen mayor
Appel. !
| Yes" was the answer.
"And did Earl promise you that If
the recall succeeded he would see that
man of your choosing was made
police commissioner" was asked.
mo" replied the witness. II told |
! him l wanted him to try and have Alt
| house made a police commissioner
under the new administration if he
could manage it."
The statement was on a par with |
many others made by oswald, perhaps |
! the coolest manipulation of the conduct |
| of men of many types in many posi- |
tions, from realms beneath them in the |
social mass, that ever stamped his pc |
culiar individuality upon the life of
| Los Angeles at any stage of its devel- |
| opment. The manner in which he
| spoke of what he had told Harper" +" |
told Kern" or told Broadhead" to do |
and also in which he mentioned what |
eve did" in telling of the activities i'm
which the Rev. Wiley j. Phillips and |
| Attorney Robert ]. L,lucks were in
yolved, would have been cavalier in the |
| extreme If 1t mad not peen so clearly
unconscious.
Appel asked many questions regard |
ing the reasons for Oswald's desire TO |
have his brother-in-law appointed on |
the board of police commissioners |
| eliciting the fact that several members
| of the family are saloon keepers. The |
attorney, recross- examining seemed |
! launched on a wild career of investi-
cation of the affairs of Oswalds re-
motest relatives when Joseph Ford |
| checked him with a series of objec- |
| tlons, all sustained by the court
Appel managed to perplex the wit
ness at last, in regard to testimony on |
direct examination i'm the present case
apparently at variance with statements
previously made before the grand jury |
| regarding the time of year In which |
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