Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-04


ton is a wire from, san Francisco to
Slauson Junction and is leased by a
San Francisco bucket shop. He said
man of the name of Stratton was the
manager at Slauson Junction for the
San Francisco people.
This bucket shop, says Mr.. Hurst,
has a wire from San Francisco to Kan
sas City. If they have any line east
of Kansas City it is unknown to the
local officials of the Western Union.
Furthermore, Brown does not pay the
Western Union anything for telegraph
| ic services. A bucket shop was closed
! here at Los Angeles in November, at
which time Brown undertook to operate
a bucket shop for himself for while
and took quotations from the Western
! Union company for about six weeks,
but he has had no kind of telegraphic
| service from them since that time.
II called on the Postal Telegraph peo-
| pie and ascertained that they did not
/ know Harry D. Brown. The manager
of the Postal examined the books and
said they had no account with any per-
son of the name of Harry D. Brown or
Harry. D. Brown & Co. He has no
leased wire from them. The represen-
tations, therefore, made by this man
that he has a private leased wire to
New York are false, as is also his claim
that he spends several hundred dollars
per month for kilograms
Not Inclined to Talk
Those in authority at the office of
the Japanese Daily News refused to
discuss the charges made against
Brown in Saturday mornings issue of
the paper when they were seen by a
reporter for The Herald the day of the
publication of the article. AT the office
of the News the reporter was referred
to NJ. Suzuki, manager of the japanese
association of Los Angeles. He was
also disinclined to talk about the affair,
declaring that all his information had
come from the office of a local detective
agency, and saying he had Enown moth
ing of Braown's alleged illegal manner
of doing business.
1t was apparent that Suzuki was at
tempting to make it appear that the
investigation in: the brokers' bust
ness was begun by other parties. His
reason Tor doing this became apparent
when he expressed his fear that the
broker would read the criticisms and
decamp. He said
Detective Hurst furnished us with
the information against Harry Brown.
Brown, Hurst informs us, operates no
private wire from Slauson Junction.
When he wants the boys to invest their
money with him he tells them he has
This wire he says, enables him to keep
in touch with the stock market in New
York.
Investors Would Be Helpless
Brown has been making payments
TO the boys each week, but we fear
that when he gets more boys money
he will leave the city, He takes 500
from the boys and pays them back
a
he cannot always pay such big interest.
am given to understand that he leaves
no money in the bank over night, but
takes it all out each day before the
bank closes. He could leave with all
the boys money at any time, and they
would be unable TO do anything
about it.
although 1 am not Just certain how
much money the japanese boys have
Invested with Brown, l believe the
amount is more than $4,000 We do
not want to stir this thing up because
we do not want Brown to get away. L
believe Brown has a couple of Japanese
boys working for him who get the boys
to invest their money with him.
I'VE were not afraid to publish the
facts about this case in the Japanese
Daily News, because Brown cannot
read the paper It is written in Jap
anese. and none of the boys will trans
late it for him."
Denies Japanese Statement
When a reporter first called on Brown
later in the day, the broker refused to
be seen until he could summon his at
torney. When the attorney came, and
Brown was made aware of the expose
in the Japanese paper he made repeat
ed denials of the facts supposed to
have been printed in the paper, but
refused to make any statement He
declared he had never told any of the
Japanese boys that he had a direct
wire from Slauson Junction to New
York.
When seen again in the evening
Brown declared that last October his
japanese servant had come to him with
the request that he invest his savings