Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-11

other instances that I will cite,
should convince any unprejudiced
man of Fredericks' absolute unfit
ness for the office of district at
torney.
You will note that the police COM
missioners, as we'll as Harper were
interesed in having the cases Mr..
Eddie refers to dismissed, and that
Mr.. Eddie was even threatened
when he refused to dismiss the
cases. Now, we will consider this
in connection with certain events
that follow: First, let us talk about
his strenuous effort to protect
Harper and Kern and his sup
preston of the grand jury investi-
cation into the grating of these
city officials.
To begin with, the Jones grand
jury knowing his attitude and
knowing his determination to sup
press and cover up the iniquity of
these two officials, twice requested
him to retire from the grand jury
room and leave them unhampered,
and even demanded that he not
only retire from the case himself,
but that he not allow any of his
deputies to enter the grand jury
room. These two separate requests
were made to him after he had dis
charged me right in the middle of
an examination of Ed Kern.
Right at this point l wish to
assert, as I have often asserted.
that while the law enjoins secrecy
in relation to the questions that
were being asked OF Kern, Freder-
icks knew that I was reaching for
him when the examination was
thus put to an end. Two of the
grand jurors, Mr. Clark and Mr..
Andrews, have stated time and
again that his attitude before the
grand jury was the same as II he
had been the paid attorney of the
accused persons, and that he could
not have been more diligent IN sup
pressing the investigation Of the
accused officials If he had in fact
been their paid attorney.
CONSULTATIONS WITH PARKER
A further fact that connects Mr..
Fredericks absolutely with the
charges that I have made is that
Walter Parker was closeted with
him in the district attorneys Office
during this Harper investigation In
daily consultation, and that 1t be-
came necessary to secrete MIN IN
an inner office so the public might
NOT become aware Vi lllC pa l 'iS
was taking in this affair. This Is
the same Walter Parker who put
through the riverbed steal ana
tried to bribe Harry Lelande in the
Alexandria hotel, of which l have
more to say later
After Harper's and Kern's resig-
nations the public became so IN
sistent and the public clamor
against Fredericks was so great
that he caused another grand jury
to be drawn for the purpose or
whitewashing him. and in their re-
port appears this language: From
the evidence adduced during this
Investigation It Is the unanimous
belief of this grand jury that large
amounts of money were paid Tor
the protection of prostitution in the
so-called redlight district to certain
public and ex-public officials or
this city under investigation other
than those indicted" Now, al
though this grand jury found TINS
TO be a fact, they adjourned In
few days, after having indicted a
scapegoat in the person of Thomas
Broadhead, who was afterward ac-
Quilted as persons familiar with
the general scheme of immunity feh
sure he would be
I'M TeldLlOA W lllpSS wiz NSA - 49,
indicted the second grand jury has
this to say: FINALLY 1t is the
opinion of the grand jury that in
vestfgations into official miscon-
duct can best be carried on Sc
cretly by the district attorney
without the aid of a grand jury
1t is common knowledge that the
sessions of a grand jury are about
the most secret process known Tor
ferreting out a crime.
OFFENDERS ESCAPED PRISON
In having the grand jury take
this action, Fredericks must have
known at the time that by having
the whole matter placed in his
hands, and the grand jury ad-
1ourned, he could effectually sup
press any further action in the
matter, and this Is the course he
took, for since that time he mas
done nothing in the way of liking
the guilt upon any one, and OF all
those city officials accused OF the
lowest form of graft known not
one has ever been made to sutter
days Imprisonment.
Now. nv friends, consider this in
connection with the affidavit of Mr..
Eddie, and see If the story does not
dovetail in such a way that the
conviction that he Is protecting
those guilty Of crime is not to be
escaped by any reasonable man.
Let me next pass TO the protec-
ton of the Solid Three of the board
of supervisors by Mr.. Fredericks:
In this connection let me first read
YOU the provisions of section NO.
4154 Of the Political Code, which
reads as follows: "The district
attorney is the legal adviser of the
board Of supervisors. He must at
tend their meetings when required,
and must attend and oppose all
claims and accounts against the
county when he deems them un-
lust and illegal" 1t is well known
that the board of supervisors at
tempted to sell in secret, without
advertising for bids, the entire
good roads bond issue of S35,OOO,OOO
at a figure far below the market
value, and at a loss to the county
by the estimate of Mayor Alex
ander himself, of S400, 600
Is it not too palpable for argu-
ment that these fellows must have
known in advance that they would
have immunity from the district
attorney before trying to rob the
county Of this immense sum?
Would they have dared attempt
such a betrayal of the public II
they had had the slightest dream
that they would ever be prosecuted
for it? This raw piece of work mad
to be stopped by a court proceed
ing, but so far as any criminal
prosecution is concerned, they have
been as safe as the rock of Gibral-