Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1910-10-27
WOOLWINE SCORES
+ c. D. P. OPPONENT
Holds the District Attorney Up to
Voters SCorn in Speech
at Pasadena
FREDERICKS' RECORD Barred
Brands Republican Candidate as
Tool of the Southern Pa
CifiC Railroad
REDERICKS' RECORD Barred
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1 put Kern on the Stand. i. mad
him subpoenaed at the last minute
so he could not get to Fredericks, but
he seemed to have done so. l asked
him if he had had any conversation
with any one between the time he was
Subpoenaed and the time he took the
stand. He turned red and pale and
back again and looked at Fredericks.
Finally he said, Yes.
81 told him to tell what it was
and of what it consisted. He again
turned red and pale in. turn and again
| looked at Fredericks, who jumped up
and objected to- the questions l was
asking Kern. | asked the foreman OF
the grand jury to let the jurors vote
as to whether [ should continue with
the work, but he denied my request.
was stopped because L was reaching
for Fredericks, who discharged me
from office.
1.-THE grand jurors wanted me put
back, but Fredericks refused. They
wanted him and his deputies put out
of the room, but he said he would
stand upon his legal rights. The jurors
addressed a letter to him, but he still
| chung on.
walter Parker was almost con-
staptly in the office of F'redericks while
the grand jury was in session-Parker,
the man who tried to put through the
river bed franchise steal and who, in
the Hotel Alexandria, tried to bride
Harry Lelande to sign it. Fredericks
was asked about Parkers being in his
| office, and he said: Yes, he was there
and he'll be there again. Later he sent
word to the man who asked him that
| he had been in a fit of anger when he
made that remark and please don't
mention it.
TALKS ABOUT S. z. TOOLS
Talking about the Southern Pa
cific and it's tools, see how the trus-
| tees of San Pedro tried several times
in a year to give away valuable har-
Dor frontage and were stopped only
| by the filing of civil suits in the courts.
| They did not care for their reputa-
| tons. Many men think money is val
ue received for a good name, but you
cannot get value received for that.
The trustees knew they were immune
| from punishment for trying to give
away the frontage.
Consider the county's road bond is
sue of 100000 and what the super
visors did. They tried, at a secret
session, to sell the bonds under mar
ket value at what would have meant
an ultimate loss to the county of $780,
| 900. Do you know that the district
| attorney is the legal adviser of the
supervisors and that he must oppose
their actions when he deems them I'M
just or illegal?
"Fredericks did not do one thing to
stop the supervisors from selling the
bonds and the people had to obtain
an injunction in the courts. Why, in
one of the suits against the supervis-
ors. Fredericks even appeared for the
solid three
eff had been in the office of district
attorney I'd have had grand jury
in session in twenty-four hours and
I'd have found out who was at fault
If the jurors were kept in session
until doomsday!"
Mr.. Woolwine then went into details
of the notorious attempt of a former
city council to steal the riverbed
noting that Percy Harmon, a member
of the city Legislative body at that
time,~ now occupies a position as depu-
ty district attorney. He also called
attention to the fact that Fredericks
made no effort at that time to stop
the attempt at the steal and the no.
body was brought to justice. He then
told of an affidavit made by a man
who formerly acted as a detective I'M
der F'redericks, who went to him with
card bearing Walter Parker's 20.
K" and was put to work Immediately.
TWO FORGED WILLS
Mr.. Woolwine reiterated the accusa-
ton he frequently has made in the
campaign to the effect that Fredericks,
who is charged with the prosecution
of felonies, had his attention called to
two forged wills and that all he did
was to suppress the forgeries, cover
the felonies and loot the estate of $12,-
600 by inveigling two of the heirs to
sign contracts by which they were
to give him 90 per cent Of what he
could get for them.
1.-THE records are in the court house."
declared Mr.. Woolwine, land they will
prove it. And there also is the con-
tract in Fredericks own handwriting
for that fee which Shylock, in his
palmiest days, never would have
taken"
Mr. Woolwine then told of his in
tention, if he is elected to office, of
seeing that the poor man is treated
as well as the capitalist. He declared
his intention of asking the courts to
appoint the best legal counsel in the
county to assist the poor who are
unable to pay for attorneys an action
which is according to law and which
frequently spurs lawyers on to greater
efforts in behalf of non-paying clients
than for wealthy ones, as an acquittal
is a matter of personal pride.
e. ]. Fleming, formerly a deputy
district attorney under Fredericks,
spoke briefly before Mr.. Woolwine,
LSlllAlS VI HIS plGdSuI0 " slNuICoS
adenans because of the strong stand
they take for law and order
''The thought want to impress upon
YOU" said Mr. Fleming, 'is that eff
cheney is the most important quality
for a public official, whether he be a
United States senator or district at
torney.
81 want to show won two pictures of
district attorneys. One, Folk in St |
Louis, who prosecuted the higher ups, |
who proved his efficiency as a public |
official, was advanced to the position of
governor of Missouri and may go even
higher. The other figure is that of |
Jerome of New York. Before he was
chosen as district attorney he had been
police judge in the metropolis After |
being elected to the higher office he
raided gambling dens and proved him |
self such a great prosecutor that he
was reelected. He was proving him |
self an inspiration to other district at
torneys all over the country until final
ly there came to him the supreme test
the insurance scandals.
He was called upon to prosecute the