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Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-04
c. C. LEHNHAUSEN,
Captain.
CHARGE OF ExToRTIoN MADE

"I would like to ask District Attor-
ney John D. Fredericks if this plot
which failed had anything to do with
the reasons why Guy Eddie did not
dare run for office?
"But let us read further. Here is
an affidavit, signed and sworn to be-
fore notary. 1t says:
State of California, County of
Los Angeles, SIS. Scott Sense, being
first duly sworn, deposes and says:
That on one day during the month
of August, 1910, and when he was
making an investigation for Guy
Eddie to ascertain who were circu-
lating malicious stories about him,
held a conference with one Miss G.
v. Howard, a colored woman, who
conspired with affiant to eXtort
money from Guy Eddie, which
money was to be divided between
this affiant and said Miss g. ".
Howard. SCOTT SENSE.
Subscribed and sworn to before
me this 22d day of August, 1910.
SAMUEL BARNES SMITH,
Notary Public in and for the county
q OF Los Angeles, State of Califor-
mia.
''Place that affidavit beside Capt.
I.ehnhausen's testimony and picture
the alarmed Fredericks, who had limited
Of affidaVitS so conhdently In his hrSt
attack upon me, fastening in his
trembling perturbation to change his
cry. accusing me of securing aftidavits
against myself.
''At the time Of the Glendora meet
ing no one but Scott Sense, the fallen
women approached for false testimony
against me and the city authorities 1
have named shared the actual knowl-
edge of the truthful affidavits with me.
''Scott Sense, who accompanied Chief
Detective Browne of the district at
torney's office at the time the plot was
supposed to be thickening against my
self, was employed by District Attor-
ney Fredericks in cases and has done
work for Fredericks since. Go to the
county auditors office today and you
will find the district attorneys vouch-
ers In favor of Sense, dated as late as
october OF this year. The latest is
No. S6,357.
"But the plot Of my enemies was
planned to. be more far-reaching than
/ have proven. I have here other at
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-04
EDDIE SHEDS LIGHT ON CONSPIRACY
HATCHED To ADVANCE FREDERICKS
Candidate for District Attorney Denoces Opponents Campaign
of SANDER and Offers Excerpts from Documents to
Prove Existence of Plot Against Character
Here's Proof of Fredericks' Plot
to Defame City Prosecutor Eddie
Police Department, Central Division.
Captains Office.
Los Angeles, Cal, Oct. 81, 1910.
Mr.. Guy Eddie,
City Prosecuting Attorney,
Ci+1y

Mr. Guy Eddie
City Prosecuting Attorney
City.
Sir Upon your verbal request that make statement to you
of investigation that conducted at the request OF the chief OF
police months ago relating reported misconduct be-
tween yourself and negress beg ito state as follows
That made the investigation and to the conclusion that
YOU were the victim of job That found from two detec
tives s. L. and Scott Sense of the district attorneys Of
flee that negress appear your office at certain hour
and by certain misconduct her to
promising position when you to be suddenly entered
by That questioned the said Scott Sense very closely
upon the learned from him that the negress
ceve 500 for Job That then and there realized the in
famous being made party to and refused have
ANYTHING further to do with it. Respectfully
c. c. LETNHAUSEN,
Captain.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-04
ASKS LEAVE TO MORTGAGE

The First Presbyterian church of San
Fernando yesterday filed in the SUI
perlor court petition for permission
to mortgage realty it owns for $1,000.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-04
Own a Free
Sewing Machine

No other machine is so light run
ming and practical at the same time
Eight sets of Ball Bearings.
The Rotoscillo Movement-just two
reasons why.
Small payment down and s1.OO a
week.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-04

or suffer ignominy and shame before
my fellow men.
SECRET OF BROWNIES VISIT
"I will relate the story; you may
draw your own conclusions. The facts
are almost beyond belief, but the
proofs are here. At the time, previous
to the primaries, when I was being
considered as a possible Lincoln
Roosevelt candidate for district attor-
ney against John d. Fredericks S. L.
Browne, chief detective in the district
attorneys office, rang City Attorney
Leslie Hewitt on the phone and stated
that he had certain information
against City Prosecutor Eddie which
should be known. He asked for a con-
ference with Mr.. Hewitt. The latter
told him to come to his office. Browne
did so. There the detective from Fred
ericks' office said that 1 had been
guilty of improper conduct with ne
gress in my office. He offered to prove
It, When asked for his method Browne
suggested that Mr.. Hewitt detail an
officer to make an investigation. The
city attorney agreed to this and took
up the matter with Chief of Police
Galloway. The latter detailed upon
the case Captain Lehnhausen, one of
the oldest and most trustworthy men
of the department. These are the sim
pie IdClS, ldul0S dIlu BcIlllOiiCliB WilASAA
are easily substantiated.
"What was the result OF that inves-
tigation. 1t was made known to Chief
Galloway and City Attorney Hewitt
at the time. have 1t In this letter,
written by Captain Lehnhausen Octo-
ber 81. 1910, but few days ago. I
will read 1t:
Police Department, Central Di-'
vision, Captains Office, Los An
geles, Oct. 31.-Mr. Guy Eddie, City
Prosecuting Attorney, city-Sir:
Upon your verbal request that
make statement to you of an in
vestigation that conducted at the
request of the chief of police about
three months ago relating to re-
ported misconduct between your
self and a negress, 1 beg to state as
follows:
That I made the investigation
and came to the conclusion that
you were the victim of a job. That
| found out from two detectives, S.
L. Browne and Scott Sense of the
district attorneys office, that a
negress was to appear at your Of
flee at a certain hour and by GER
tain misconduct on her part was
to put you in a compromising posi-
ton when you were to be suddenly
entered upon by witnesses. That
questioned the same Scott Sense
very closely upon the matter and
learned from him that the negress
was to receive $100 for, the Job.
That I then and there realized the
infamous deal that I was being
made a party to and refused to
have anything further to do with 1t.
Respectfully,
C. G. LEHNHAUSEN,
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-04

-1n the big Book Dept,
Main Floor, North Bldg.
Surprising what small
amount of money it takes to buy
the most sulendid books-you
should see this 25c line.
Among other subjects, The Flower Sc
Ties from the Poets 25c Each-Bound
in white and gold. Poems from Long
fellow, Dickens. Whittier and many
other prominent authors.
At 10c, the Eureka Art Series-C1ever
little booklets to take the place of
Christmas cards.
A big assortment of Children's
Books ranging from sc to S2-Linen
board or cloth binding. A most ex-
cellent selection-and don't forget the
late copyrights are always Sl.18 at
BuIIocks. Have you read The Rose
in the Ring?
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-04
Educator Shoes

allow little folks feet to
grow in Natures own way
free and unhindered by point
ed toes, short insteps-narrow
lasts-high heels. For reasons
of comfort-because they are
formed on Nature lasts-and
for the unusual wear they
will give, Educators are the
shoes for your ch1ldren-you
will wonder why you have not
bought them before.
Educator Shoes in childhood In
sure healthy feet in after life.
Buy Educator Shoes at BullockS
exclusively in Los Angeles
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-04
Assets Over $3.50, 900

rransaets a General BaAx~
ing and Trust BusinsaA
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-04
DENUNoIATIoN OF DETECTIVE

TT was a willy trick for my enemies
to employ Detective Scott Sense to pur-
chase or secure by intimidation false
affidavits against me from fallen
women. L had employd this same de-
tective to search out evidence in this
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-04
Organized 1889

Branch;
tt1s South Hoover street.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-06
POOR CONCEPTION AS TO
WHAT REAL ENGLISHMAN is

LAWNDALE, June 2.-[Editor Her
aldl: In The Herald of May % 1 read
a piece written by a supposed zone
time Englishman," in which he says:
THE English regard the Irish as a
semi-barbarous people, whom they con-
slider only fit to be exploited by the
English landlord and honored by be-
ing permitted to serve in the British
army They are barely conscious that
there is race known as the Welsh
and their conception of the Scotch is
that of a number of tribes of oatmeal
eating, bare legged sheep herders."
am afraid "a one time Englishman"
has very poor conception of the true
Englishman. l have been in England
but failed to meet any of the kind he
mentions, and l may say truthfully
there is not a nation under the sun
that welcomes foreigner more hearth
ly than does England. He goes on to
say the English are a race of fiunkies
etc. l guess it would be better If he
spoke for himself and let others do the
same. My, but didn't it take him a
long time to find out that England was
no good-thirty years-but perhaps he
was dormant during that period. One
thing l should like to say, a man who
will speak of his own country and his
own people as a one time Englishman
has done is no credit to any country.
A ONE TIME AND ALWAYS ENG
LISH WOMAN.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-06
WHITE SLAVERY WORSE THAN
DEATH, DECLARES A MOTHER

PASADENA, June 3.-[Editor Her
add: have been much interested in
the public Letter Box, and 1 am going
to add some views of my own il you
will be so kind as to publish them.
I have been very indignant over the
way a Chinese criminal of the name Of
Mills Sing is apparently getting the
best of the law that is trying to make
him answer for the awful crimes he has
committed. What is the matter with
our laws on the white slave traffic? ?"
1t is no trouble to try man for muir
der but it seems they cannot try man
for crime that is worse than murder.
There is not a decent woman in the
world who would not rather by far that
herself or her daughter would be killed
outright than be subjected to a life
that is even worse than living death
so revolving that it maeks me shud-
der to think of it. The lawyers who are
helping this fiend to escape the law
ought to have little girls of their own
and then see them in all their sweet
purity fell into the clutches of such as
he. No other punishment would be
sufficient.
I am a home loving wife and mother,
but | believe in the ballot for women.
The men are somehow failing to make
laws that will fit such cases as this.
The law Furnishes a man who steals,
without any parley about it, and his
punishment is great, but he can rob a
girl of what is worth more to her than
all the money in the United States
mint, at the same time robbing her
parents of all that is dearest to them,
and If he is ever punished at all it is
made very light and easy for him.
do hope that something will be done to
stop this awful curse. A MOTHER.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-06
RETIRING PENSIONS

NIVIL service retirement pensions
are coming into the arena of prac-
~ tical politics. The postal employees
are especially active in advocating
measures for guaranteeing retiring al
lowances for employees of this useful
branch of the public service.
Corporations are beginning to estab-
lish systems of retiring pensions for
faithful employees. Many of the best
known corporations have retirement
systems; and this is undoubtedly not
only good from a humanitarian point
Of view but from a corporation point of
view. The fidelity of employees is
strengthened by the assurance that if
they will stick by the company the
company will stand by them through
thick and thin-to the end-which of
course is as it ought to be. To use
skilled employe for all he is worth and
then to dump him at short notice is
nothing more nor less than ordinary
exploitation, and is so closely allied to
piracy it is hard to tell the difference.
All the companies that have tried a
more humane and honest method of
dealing with valuable employees are
reaping the benefit. The efficiency of
their service is improved, and they
meet with public approval which has
stood them in good stead on various
occasions.
For instance Mr. Riebenack of that
great corporation, the Pennsylvania rail-
road, says: Enquiries made with regard
to the pension system of the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad company indicate it is
looked upon with much favor by the
community at large. Many railroads and
industrial corporations have adopted
pension plans outlined upon a similar
basis. The correspondence received by
the Pennsylvania railroad pension de-
partment indicates that inquiries in re-
lation to its plan and operation have
been made by no less than fifty-eight
railroads and transportation companies,
nineteen mining and manufacturing in
dustries, ten insurance companies,
seventeen different branches of the
United States, state and municipal gov
ernments, as well as the governments
of foreign countries
The company's benefits consist for
the most part in the efficiency of the
service naturally consequent upon the
employment of younger and more ro-
bust men instead of those whose in
capacitation has rendered their retire
ment beneficial to both themselves and
the service, also in welding more firmly
the interests of employer and employe.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-06
Something About New York City
tBradstreets.)


York. Nearly 10 per cent of the bank
ing power of the world is thus CEN
tered in this city, a statement so re-
markable that it would be beyond
belief were II not for the fact that the
United States has become the richest
country of the globe. and that New
York is the most important banking
center of this rich country. In fact, 26
per cent of the banking power of the
United States, with its 21,000 banks,
is located in this city. In 1908 the total
stock of money in the United States
was SO, 97S, 500, 900, of which $1,362, 300, 900,
or 40 "a per cent, was in the banks do
ing duty as reserve against the COM
mercial and other deposits. OF the
amount $49s, 100000 was in the banks
of the city of New York, this being
over 36 per cent Of all the money in
the banks, and over IL per cent of all
thl money i'm the United States, wheth-
err in treasury banks or individual
boards.
While the funded debt of New York
city in 1907 amounted to over al per
cent of all the municipal debts In the
United States, being per capita of
$14252, as compared with $64.92 per
capita in all the 1853 cities combined,
yet this debt is by no means out OF
proportion to the wealth of the city.
The assessed valuation of property in
New York aggregated in 1909 $780,
500,559. 1t has more than doubled in
ten years. In 1907 it amounted to
$1S44.9 95 per capita, as compared with
$962.5S per capita in all cities of the
United States. Moreover, the city cor
pora ton owns property used III public
service enterprises valued in that year
at $314,111,597, besides land, buildings
and equipment of its various depart
ments valued at $639, SIS, 290, and pub
lie improvements valued at $1S5,255,-
O24. If 1t should sell all this property,
even at these census valuations, it
could pay every dollar of it's funded
debt and have balance in cash sufl-
cient for it to pay off over 45 per
cent of the aggregate funded debts of
all the other American cities COM
bined. The credit of the city is unim-
peachable.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-06
THE COUNTY

nj ECESSITY for good government in
~ county as we'll as in city is
~ recognized in the strong organi-
cation designed to meet the wider
scope and plan of the Good Govern
ment movement. Organization is abso-
lutely necessary if there is to be an
effective campaign. Machine men
have frequently accused citizens de-
voted to decency and square deal
of being silk stockings" and of
standing aloof from practical politics.
1t is certain all self-respecting citizens
have been justified in holding them
selves aloof from dirty politics, con-
Quoted for revenue only.
But under new conditions it is be-
coming understood politics and patriot
ism may be synonymous. Hence the
laudable activity shown in organizing
for a Good Government victory in the
county.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-06
SPEAKER CANNON

TN HOSE who would pose Speaker
Cannon in the role of a martyr
Il attacked as he is on every side
by the insurgents-must remember that
the darts are not aimed at Cannon.
the Individual, but at Cannon as rep
resenting antiquated and reactionary
policies. Regarding one of the speak
er's recent outbreaks in which he be-
rated college professors and magazine
editors, the New York World says:
"It is not to college professors and
magazine editors that the speakers
troubles are due.
1.-THE records of the house of rep
resentatives will show that forty
three severely practical and rather
husky Republicans are the men who
checked his dominant career as the
czar of congress. Most of them were
from the middle west, his own neigh
bors in fact, and very few of the1a
have had any more corrupting associa-
tions with college professors and mag
azine editors than he has.
Not one of these men was infiu-
enced by subserviency to letters, science
or art. Not one of them had any base
desire to cultivate the learned or the
polite. All of them were moved by
the same mighty and exceedingly prac-
tical impulse, and that was desire to
get on good terms with their constit-
uents, and so perchance TO gain re-
nominations and reflections.
"As a politician who has played the
game for many years Mr.. Cannon
should understand this as we'll as any
body. Probably he does understand
it. If he were better acquainted with
professors and magazine editors he
would know that in a pitched battle in
the house forty bolting congressman
can hit harder than all of them put
together"
Speaker Cannon is his own worst
enemy. He will not learn that his
days of usefulness are ended; that his
reactionary policies are repudidated
by the people; and that the only sem
sible course for him to pursue is to
retire from public life.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-06


ME- YORK is 40 big that If di-
vided up it could make three
~ cities of the size OF Chicago,
Philadelphia and PittsbuIg. Boston,
Baltimore, Cleveland, Buffalo Los An
geles, Cincinnati, Detroit, Milwaukee,
New Orleans and Washington are all
large and splendid cities. with many
metropolitan activities, and yet New
York in population is equal to the ag-
gregate of them all. Berlin and Vi
emma combined would not make New
York. st. Louis could be added to
Greater Paris and still not equal New
York. Greater London, the colossus
of cities, is however. big enough to
contain New York and Chicago. Bar
ring London, however New York has
no equal as a metropolitan city. More
over, it is the greatest municipality in
the world under one central govern
ing authority.
New York is not only the greatest
commercial city of the country, but it
is also the great industrial city. Ac-
cording to the census of 1905 there
were in the city 20,S39 manufacturing
establishments, nearly one-tenth of the
entire number in the United States;
these had a capital of $1,042,946, 4S7.
constituting over 8 per cent of the
total industrial capital of the United
States they employed 464,716 wage
earners, who with their families. con-
stituted over 30 per cent of the city's
population; there is paid in wages
$24S, 1885, ,259 year to these workmen, a
sum equal to the entire internal reve-
nue. receipts OF the United States. The
total value of manufacturing products
in New York city in 1905 was $1,526,-
523, ,006, or 1927 per cent of the total
value of manufactured products in the
United States. There are more manu-
featuring establishments, more manu-
featuring capital and more value of
manufacturing products in New York
city than in any state in the Union,
except Pennsylvania.
The banking power of the world is
estimated at $45,75O, 300, 900. of which
$17, ,642. 7O0 900 is in the United States
and S4,553, ZOO, 900 is in the city of New
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-06
PRACTICAL HYPNOTISM

A SPREAD of the practice of hyp-
n notism may well be viewed with
"A alarm. The consequences of the
hypnotic glare are far reaching. The
man who can hypnotic his fellow men
is dangerous. How can he be re-
strained? In Pennsylvania the daunt-
less police tried to interfere to save
a mother-in-law who was the victim of
a hypnotist. This victim explained that
when she began to speak the hyp-
notist glared balefully. He took the
words right out of her mouth. The
mother-in-law attempted to run the
hypnotst's house, as all good moth
ers-in-law do. She tried to tell the
hypnotst's wife how to manage her
domestic outfit. This was merely ex-
ercising the time-honored prerogative
of a mother-in-law. But the hypnotist
did not see it in that light.
He gave the old lady's intellect a
knockdown blow with his terrible
glance, and then bound and gagged it,
leaving mother-in-law helpless and
speechless.
She had him arrested and a magis-
trate held him under $500 bail to keep
the peace. But the hypnotist says
that's exactly what he wanted his
mother-in-law to do. He feels he has
not had a square deal. Hypnotism
having been officially recognized, we
may now expect many cases of great
legal and general interest founded on
the practice Of pernicious ocularity.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-06
EDUCATIONAL PROS
PERITY

A CCORDING to the corrected lists
q Los Angeles has about $4,000
IA children of school age. Many
citizens can easily remember the
time when the entire population did
not exceed this figure. Nothing more
strikingly illustrates and emphasizes
the wonderful growth of Greater Los
Angeles than the pressure on school
accommodations. Resources have been
constantly taxed in the endeavor to
keep up with the procession" of
school children, and the action taken
by citizens to make provision for edu-
cational facilities was marked by sa-
gacity and broad-minded patriotism.
The demands on the educational re-
sources of Greater Los Angeles are
constantly being increased, and with
the growth of the city there will be a
constant call for more schools, more
equipment and more teachers.
In addition to its public schools
Greater Los Angeles will have more
and more use for the institutions of
higher learning, which make our me-
tropolis the educational metropolis of
the west and highly to be commended
is the farsighted policy which picked
new, roomy sites and planned new
buildings for the great institutions of
higher learning which make this uni
Versity center.
Internationally, Greater Los Angeles
is not only one Of the principal cities
of the west, but one of the most i'm
portant in the world.
Educational prosperity is a most i'm
portant part Of the prosperity of
Greater Los Angeles.