Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-04

victed and sent to prison for seven
years.
Notorious Thieves Arrested
Jose Martinez and MERGED Marquis
are notorious thieves who operated
successfully throughout the northern
part of the state for number or
years, bidding defiance to the officers
there They finally drifted into South
ern California and one night ran away
with four head of horses from the Los
Cerritos ranch near Long Beach. They
are now doing eight years each at
Folsom.
Jacob Hawley stole horses from Sac
ramento down through the San Joaquin
valley, and finally came into the Ham
mel bailiwick. He stole five horses
He is now doing five years for this
! offense.
George Jackson is a horse thief of
local fame. He successfully operated
until he had stolen about a dozen
horses. For the next five years saw
horse at San Quentin will be the near
est approach to the real animal he
will get to handle.
Otto Blum, J. D. Ward and j. ID.
Lawson are horse thieves who were
captured, convicted and sent to prison
by the sheriff's office. They are doing
from three to five years each.
Wiley Hill, alias Wild Horse Hill,
champion bronco buster of the world
and champion horse thief of Texas, es-
capped the Texas officers and came TO
Los Angeles. He was arrested by the
sheriff's deputies and sent back TO
Texas, where he received sentence
of seven years.
Jim Cox, alias Jim Wilson, is another
Texas thief captured here. With
eighteen charges of grand larceny
hanging over him, Cox made his es-
cape from the Texas officers and ar
rived safely in Los Angeles. He had
Just completed arrangements 10 SAL
for Panama from San Pedro when the
officers nabbed him. He was sent back
to Red River county, Texas, and was
sentenced to eighteen years in prison
Jack Allen, alias Arizona Jack, shot
and killed Deputy Sheriff DeMoranVille
at Newhall while the officer was trying
to arrest him. He was captured the
next day. and his case is now pending
in the criminal court.
Absconder Caught
William w. Wallace, absconding
county clerk from McMinnville, Tenn,
was arrested at work on the aqueouct,
! fifteen miles from Mojave. he was
sent back to the scene of his crime,
and the case is now pending IN the
courts there.
J. G. Fleenor, the barefoot burglar"
and Louis Whey, alias the Raoplt,
are the only prisoners who ever es-
capped from the custody or the sheril'
Both were recaptured and are now 90
ing time, and no prisoner was ever lost
by the present sheriff. During the past
two years the sheriff's office has also
recovered more than 300 head of horses
stolen from the farmers of this county
All of this work was accomplished by
Sheriff Hammel with a small force OF
deputies. 1t was accomplished because
the work in the office of the sheriff is
systematized is organized, and because
the men work Loyalty and tremendously
under intelligent direction of a chlet
whom the men all respect and admire
Police Force Fails
The city of Los Angeles has police
force of more than 300 men,. OF this
number a few more than a score are
detailed to the detective department.
The work of these detectives is the IN
vestigation of crimes committed, the
securing of evidence and the capture of
the men guilty of or charged with
| crimes.
Because of lack of system, of organi-
cation and of harmony, and because
more than one-half of the member OF
the force are constantly at loggerheads
with Capt. P. E. Flammer, the head
of the detective department, no such
list of arrests and convictions for the
big crimes committed in the city can
be credited to the detective depart
ment.
There have been arrests and convic-
lions for crimes by the Los Angeles po-
lice within the same time in which the
comparison is drawn with the Sherl1t
office, but lamentable as it may be the
chief credit must be given to the lowiy
patrolman on the beat or men working
out of the patrol captains office.
There are a number of good detec-
tives on the Los Angeles force. They
are men who in ability experience and
knowledge in criminal matters rank
with the best officers in the country
Upon these men has fallen the bulk of
the work accomplished by the local de-
tective bureau, while the balance have
contented themselves with taking what
"cold turkey" has been thrust their way
and reaping in the reports all the credit
possible for the same. The expression
cold turkey used in this connection
means criminal cases which have been
worked up by patrolmen and then
turned over to the detective for pre-
these instances have generally secured
the evidence, made the arrests and got
the names and addresses of witnesses.
In a majority of instances the patrol
men were lucky if their names were
mentioned incidentally as witnesses
who might know something of the
matter.
Highwaymen Run Riot
Last winter highwaymen ran riot
throughout the city Men and women
were nightly held up and robbed, and
in many instances brutally beaten, Sc
riously wounded or murdered. The men
guilty of a majority of these crimes
were captured by the detectives of the
Los Angeles police during the absence
from the city of Captain Flammer, and
while they were working under the per-
sonal direction of Chief of Police Thorn
as H. Broadhead.
Immediately after the arrest of these
men a holdup and robbery was COM
mitted on the Second street hill near
Grand avenue. A citizen was robbed
and shot so that he afterward died.
The men guilty of this robbery and
murder are yet at large.
A few weeks ago an unworldly and
unsophisticated merchant from little
village in oregon was coaxed to this
city and stripped of $4,000, his life
time savings, by as we'll known gang