Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-13

mercial street"
II am familiar in this way: All that
/ know regarding the opening of the
new redlight district is that they were
there. So far as any arrangements
made with me or with my consent or
personal knowledge, l know nothing"
Says Place Not Set Aside
Ibid you ever receive instructions
from Chief Kern or Mayor Harper or a
request from them. or a suggestion
from them, not to disturb the houses
of i'll fame i'm that district on CONNER
cial street east of Alameda street,
mo more regarding that district
than any other"
did you have instructions to permit
| ii to exist?"
mo, no; never, never. | understand
| what you mean now. You mean was
that place set aside for them? 1t was
| not, TO my knowledge"
why was this district allowed to
exist?"
/ THE same, as matter of suffer-
ance, as the other places and had been
for years, and years. and years. AS to
what was the best way to manage the
| places"
You say 1t was permitted by suffer-
ance. Did you ever have any CONVEX
sation with Chief Kern or Mayor Har-
per in regard to permitting 1t to exist
| w SuhCi any
81 never did"
CHIEF Broadhead. denied he had at
| tended any conference where Chief
Kern. Mayor Harper. Sam Schenck or
anybody else was present to discuss
the redlight district on Alameda street
east of Commercial, and that he had
never received any graft money from
! Tom Savage. Nick Oswald or Sam
Schenck. Mr.. Broadhead stated his
property in Los Angeles consisted of a
house and lot mortgaged for $1,000 and
ranch at Corcoran, which he bought
on payments as 240 acres OF raw land
at S25 an acre and on which he owed
about $4,000. He claimed that Oswald
had told him he would vilify him IL
the police did not leave one of his
| places open.
Knew Reputation of Manhattan
Mr. Earl asked if Chief Broadhead
! did not know i'm general way the
reputation of the Manhattan, which
the chief of police said he did. but de-
MED having at any time any CONVEX
sation with Hub" Lewis regarding the
| place. -,
zens here said Mr. Earl, "it seems
| somewhat strange that in view of the
notoriety of that house, particularly
during the last few months, when II
was published in the papers that 1t
was an designation house. and when
| here recently there was some man
robbed there and the fellow that robbed
him confessed his guilt and went to the
penitentiary. it seems rather strange,
in view of these published statements
and facts. that there has been no eff
fort to close it up. Can't you close up
an designation house upon the general
reputation of the placer"
"As | say, the district attorney has
that question before him." replied
Chief Broadhead, land if thee district
attorney will inform us that he will
prosecute any complaints and will fur
nish us the kind of evidence We
want"
HE has not done so up to this
time?'
He has not done so.''
Unable to Enter Gambling Houses
Changing the subject to gambling"
said Mr.. Earl, II notice The Herald
has been publishing a number of
statements and diagrams of gambling
dens here in the city. If The Herald
can get men into these places and get
diagrams of these places and see these
fellows gambling, why can't you?"
'They have not got in and ever
prosecuted them. Now we get back
again to the point of which l spoke,
lOl SdlilOllhS anu OH lhOSC POlilbo OIL
on the same line. You may send a
man who may be able to get in there.
l realize that Mr.. Gibbon or someone
else may be able to do those things,
but if he would speak to us or would
tell us that he had man who could
get in those places l would at any time
pay the mans expenses. If l could
only get a man init is very hard for
us to get man to go in who will tes-
tify. You may be able to get him in
side, but it is difficult to get a man
who will go in who is reliable and is
willing to testify. All those things
published are not absolutely reliable"
Ibid Mr.. Gibbon ever write and ad-
wise you of certain places?"
Yes, and then the next morning he
published the information. The first
came at o'clock that evening; the
diagram came that night at $3.50 and
the next morning he published it.
Now, if he took that much interest,
what / would like for him to have done
was just to simply have said, Il have
the evidence, and will pass the buck
up to you to see whether you will do
anything or not and give me as
sistance on that one thing and CO.
operated with me-"
Savage Gives Details
Tom Savage in his testimony referred
the mayor and members of his police
commission regarding the running of
his redlight houses. Mr.. Savage's tes-
timony on this line was partly as fol-
lows:
II was told right there, in the pres
ence of the mayor, and, as ] say, Capt.
Broadhead. and Schenck, and--I think
pretty positively it was Mr.. Woodill--I
know there was a majority of the
commissioners present-and | was
called UP there at 8 o'clock in the even
ing and they told me they wouldn't al
low more than ten women in a house"
Did Harper himself say that to
you?'
why. yes, sir
HE did the talking, didn't hep
We'll, no; not that-they all talked"
Nov. when your houses were open
how many women did you have in
them--in each of them"
Il guess between fifty-five and
sixty"
THAT is in the Arlington and Bel
mont, both?"
Yes, sir"
And they told you there. Harper and
the rest of them. that you could only
have ten women?'
Yes"
Ten in the Arlington and ten in the
Belmont?"
Yes; they wouldn't allow-not in
the house alone or any house in town
more than ten women"
Mr.. Savage said that he obeyed the
order about a week, but denied that
he had ito fix it with the police or the
mayor" in order to do so.
Accuses CIotworthy