Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-27
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LEGAL BATTLE
BRANDENBURG TO RESIST Ex-
TRADITION TO NEW YORK
SAYS He SHALL FIGHT FOR pos
SESSION OF sTEPsoN
Declares Former President Cleveland
Appointed Him Press Agent to
Sell Articles on Political
Situation
[Bv Associated Press.l


SAN FRANCISCO, April 26.-Facing
a three cornered fight, with legal bat
ties impending in New York city, ST.
Louis and San Francisco, including in
the list an indictment for grand lar
ceny in connection with a political
article purporting to have been written
by the late Grover Cleveland, a donbie
matrimonial ENHANCEMENT and con-
test for the possession of his stepson,
James CAbanne III of st. Louis,
Broughton Brandenburg, the news
paper man and magazine writer, ar
rested here Friday night, is passing his
time in the city prison preparing Tor
the fray.
He declares, by advice of his attorney,
he will resist eXtraditiOn to New DIRK
on the grand larceny charge; that he
will make a fight for the possession of
the Cabanne boy, whose father is on
the way here to get the child, and that
the courts must decide the matrimonial
mixup which involves a marriage in
Honduras and divorce suit in st.
Louis.
In regard to the latter phase of his
predicament, the writer explains that
Mrs. Cabanne, mother of the boy ne
claims Is his stepson, went with him
to Central America, where she secured
a divorce and they were married. Mrs.
Cabanne-B randeburg's former hus-
band has an application for divorce
pending in the St Louis courts.
Asks for Large Bail
She telegraphed the prisoner from
New York to do all in his power to hold
her son. and q message also was re-
ceived yesterday from District Attor-
new Jerome of New York to hold Bran
6enburg in not less than $4,000 bail.
Friends of the writer and his attor-
new will hold a conference today to out
line plans to resist eXtradition and TO
straighten out the other ends of the
case.
In a long signed article published
here this morning Brandenburg goes
into the details of his alleged dealings
with Mr.. Cleveland a short time be-
fore the last presidential campaign.
He claims the former president APP
pointed him as press agent to sell to
the highest bidder a series of three
articles on the political situation.
According to his statement 1t was
understood Cleveland was to get $1,000
for the series and that Brandenburg
was to be compensated by whatever
more than that sum he could obtain for
the articles. Mrs. Cleveland and the
Princeton sage's executor, +. e. Hast
ings, were made aware OF the agree
ment, he says.
only one Ol LilO Oh liSiNo WehS Pr
pared. Cleveland gave him large
number of paragraphs, penciled on a
bundle of loose slips of paper which, he
claims, were to be the basis of the ilrst
contribution. Continuing, Brandenpurg
writes:
Unburdens Mind on Bryan,
"Mr. Cleveland had not written at
length on labor and the tariff, as l
had hoped he would He had, however
unburdened his mind on Mr.. Bryan IN
two paragraphs, one on record and the
other on personality These l saw must
come out if / was to sell the article 10
any but partisan periodical, but did
not urge the matter then, waiting till
later. when they were excised As they
are things which Mr.. Cleveland chose
not to utter, they are locked up with
me forever. I typed the article, ar
ranging the paragraphs according to
agreed constructive ideas, and here
and there wrote in connecting words
and phrases to secure rhetorical
smoothness and carry the echo from
paragraph to paragraph.
"With the original script and this
first typewriter draught l returned to
Mr.. Cleveland the following day, and
we went over the matter thoroughly,
making many changes, and again l took
the entire matter home and re-typed
IT. Wf1en L saw MIN again lie appear Gu
i'll and seemed to lack concentration.
Contrary to his habit of making cor
rections, he went over the manuscript
in a tired way"
According to Brandenburg the for
mer president signed the article with a
pen furnished by the former
Charges Attempted Bribery
Brandenburg made public today for
the first time the name of the man
woa, he alleges, endeavored TO Sc
cure a confession from him, and Of
fered complete immunity from prosecu-
ton on the charge against him. He
said that October 25 F. C. Lewis called
on him at Dayton, Ohio, and in the
presence OF his attorneys said that he
had arranged for the charge to be dis
missed, providing that a complete con-
fession was made. Substantial remun-
Grafton also was offered, said Branden-
burg, but was refused.
Brandenburg had a long conference
today with his uncle, Charles Brough-
ton Curtis of Los Angeles, who came
to San Francisco to aid him in his
struggle against extradition. At the
close of the conference it was an
nounced that a number of local men
had become interested in the case and
had arranged for consultation with
Brandenburg's attorney.
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