Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-21
CAPTAIN OF POLICE ACCUSED OF
ACCEPTING $1,000 FROM OSWALD
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it, Broadhead telephoned to him that
| he wanted to see him; he went over
and Broadhead said he wanted his
money, and Nick said he told him he
was a little hard up and could not pay
| the $1,000 then, and Broadhead had
said, Well, l need it damn bad he
said; I have got a ranch to pay for
and l need the money
Promises $3.50 Week
"'I can't pay it now Oswald said
| to him, but L will pay you $3.50 week
you out
Where did you pay that money"
1 asked Nick. He said he paid it over
in Broadhead's office.
"'When you took the money over
there the first time to hand it to him,
did he show any reluctance to accept
! it.?
None whatever
"'Were there any comments?'
He said, Here is your money" !"
The grand jury whose work was con-
! cluded yesterday was called March Is.
Nick Oswald disappeared the same day.
! On the following day the grand jury
| charging perjury. e. 7. Earl was a
witness before the body March 22. Joe
| Durand refused to testify on March %.
A second indictment was returned
March 25, which charged Sam Schenck,
| former police commissioner, with an
attempt to bribe E. j. Fleming when
| the latter was city prosecutor. On the
same day District Attorney Fredericks
offered Nick oswald an immunity bath
| If he would return and testify before
the grand jury.
William Lawrence Fetter, Oswald's
| bookkeeper, was arrested at Sixth and
| Main streets April 1, as he was about
/ fn rJ 90 for Do cndpnQ The I'm
munity bath was withdrawn and re-
ward of $1,000 was offered for the ap-
prehension of Nick Oswald April by
the district attorney.
Oswald was again indicted for per-
| jury April 6. An expensive but unfruit-
full search for him was carried on by
the district attorneys office. oswald
returned to Los Angeles April 10 from
his hiding place in the vicinity, follow
ing assurance from the district attor-
ney's office that immunity would be
extended. He testified before the grand
jury April IL. Captain of Police Thom--
as Broadhead was before the grand
jury April IA, but refused to testify
A. c. Harper, Edward Kern and Police
Sergeant Redmond appeared before the
grand jury April 10, but refused to
testify.
The taking of testimony was finished
April a16, and the grand jury was dis
CHdIBtu Aplil AOs ditNl iObAA o. -
port and an indictment against Thomas
H Broadhead, captain of police.
The final report of the special grand
Jury made to Judge James yesterday
is In full as follows:
Final Report
ITO the Hon. w. P. James.
Superior Judge, Los Angeles. Cal.
"Sir-The special grand jury selected
,oka I.xy nYs
March 10, 1909, respectfully reports:
"That 1t did Immediately take up, in
accordance with your instructions, the
matter of whether or not there had
been offenses committed by any per-
son who is now occupying pubic
office, or who had recently vacated
such office, within the city of Los An
geles.
"The present situation can best be
understood by brief reference to the
entire subject.
1--WE find that persistent rumors of
official misconduct on the part of Los
Angeles city officials originated as far
back as a year ago. These rumors
arose from the establishment of a new
redlight district. From the evidence
before us we find that the district at
torney at that time had employed
corps of detectives who were secretly
investigating for the purpose of ascer-
tanning facts in relation thereto; that
this investigation was skilfully and en-
ergetically carried on from May until
the latter part of August, 1908 with
out any legal evidence having been
secured up to that time.
"That at that time agitation from
other sources became so great and so
public that further secret. work was
discontinued and the matter was taken
before the grand jury then in session,
without any legal evidence having been
secured.
Agitation Is Felt
"On August 20 this agitation resulted
in the closing of all houses of prosti-
tuition throughout the new redlight dis
trict and the driving of many of the
habitues of that district out Of the
city. and in thoroughly informing them
and others of the fact that an investi-
cation was in progress The effect OF
this situation obviously was to rem
der very difficult, If not impossible,
the securing of legal testimony as to
what had heretofore transpired in that
connection.
"Habitues of this district believed
the agitation would terminate with the
session of the grand jury. and the old
conditions would again prevail there
fore withheld any information they
gmlRnL nave. III dQuiliOll d BiSetI lhohy
who might have given testimony were
driven out of town by the action Of
the police force at that time; and this
grand jury experienced the same diff
Guilty, viz: the opposition of certain
members of the police force who could
have furnished it with information, but
would not.
"At the beginning of this agitation
statements of official misconduct were
published by the Evening Express, con-
trolled by E. T. Earl, who was at once
sued for libel by city officials IN
amounts of several hundred thousands
of dollars.
During the session of the last grand
jury the proprietor of this paper. in
defending his libel suits, employing
large corps of detectives and expending
thousands of dollars, was seeking for
the same information sought by the
grand jury, but by reason of the con-
ditions heretofore stated neither the
proprietor of the Evening Express nor
the grand jury were successful in un-
earthing actual proof of the passing of
bribe money.
Bound New District
The new redlight district was bound
ed by Alameda, Ducommon, Garcia
and Also streets and those interested
attempted to reopen the same upon
the adjournment of the last grand jury.
The ownership of this property prin-
cipally stood in the names of fictitious
persons, or persons who had left the
country during the session of the
Grand iirv hut who had no interest