Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-07

chamber. She was closely Ve1led ana
started her testimony in almost inau-
dible tones, until Attorney Norton pro-
tested and the commission ordered her
veil removed.
VISITED WOMAN AT COTTAGE
Sidney Reeve, deputy city prose-
cutor, piled her with questions, elicit
ing the testimony that during the time
that Blanche Ryan lived at a question
able resort that the witness ran at $40
New High street. in 1907, Dixon was
caller on Miss Ryan on an average
of three times a week.
"Where," asked Reeve, "did Blanche
Ryan receive Captain Dixon?"
I'm her room"
"Was he in uniform?"
"He was"
"Was he alone with her during these
visits?"
yes"
The witness narrated an occurrence
of a later date at a cottage in which
Blanche Ryan was living at Sixteenth
street and Grand avenue, in which the
Ryan woman accused Clara Vernon
of stealing a pair of gold cuff buttons
from a patron Of the house at $40 New
High street. Captain Dixon acted as
mediator in the affair, which ended in
Dixon told me-" said the witness,
"that unless I returned the cuff buttons
he would arrest me-"
what did you say to him?" asked
Reeve.
IT told him that he was long way
off his beat and that he had no right to
interfere"
Morton's cross-eXamination did not
shake the testimony OF the witness,
she continuing to assert that during
the three weeks the Ryan woman was
with her Captain Dixon was a visitor
at the resort no fewer than nine times.
Attorney Morton endeavored to have
the witness say that women of the
local underworld bear a hatred for
Captain Dixon.
IT cannot answer for the Others" she
responded, "but, as far as I am con-
cerned, I have nothing against him."
officer Mack, a former member Of the
purity SQUAD, was returned to the
stand to show that he had no connec-
tion with the false report that went in
to the chief regarding the raid on
disorderly house at S16A South Spring
street on February of this year. The
report, which was made by former
officer B. R. Barker, stated that the
women arrested were picked up on
Spring street and on Broadway. not
mentioning the raid on the Mallory
house. Mack said that Parker had
signed the report with his name and
turned it in without his having read it.
There was hint that Dixon had pro-
tected the Mallory house, but Mack
claimed that Dixon had warned him
regarding the character of the place
on many occasions.
DIXON TEsTIFTEs FOR SELF
Just before noon Captain Dixon was
put on the stand and offered his de-
fense. He said that the "Dixie" was
not named after him, but that it bore
the name before he met its keeper,
Blanche Ryan. AS to the loss of the
locket by Hale, he disclaimed any con-
nection with the theft.
When the visits he made to Blanche
Ryan were suggested, he asserted that
he had made visits to her for the pur-
pose of securing information concern
ing violators of the law.
"Were your relations with her wholly
of nature such as exists between an
officer and an informer?"
"They were," responded Dixon.
He admitted that Blanche Ryan felt
kindly toward him. as he had been in
strumental in Kidding the city of Tom
Ray, a convict, who had threatened to
kill her.
The accused captain acknowledged he
had received and kept a vase which
Blanche Ryan sent him as Christmas
present. He gave as his reason for so
doing a disinclination to hurt the wom-
ans feelings by returning the present.
The commission inquired minutely
into Dixon's financial standing, in con-
nection with rumors that he had been
receiving bribes. He testified that he
had made money through fortunate
real estate investments, and now has
between $4,000 and $4,000.
Ii rfeO tIn oh
of the attempted raid on the San Fer
nando building gambling rooms, Dixon
put Joseph Thorpe on the stand, who
testified that Dixon was at his house
from early evening until close to mid
night, and during all of that time
Dixon did not use the telephone.
Secretary Hill of the central police
station was questioned regarding the
visits of former officer Bartlett and
Special officer Sam Solomons to Cap
tain Dixon's office at the central sta
ton. Hill referred several times to the
purity squad, until Mayor Alexander
interjected, st think they are mis-
named, for their ideas of purity do not
coincide with mine, judging from one
of them recently dismissed from the de-
partment."
ENDEAvoRs TO RETRACT
AS there were still twenty or more
witnesses to be examined in order to
clear the name of William d. Gage
from the stigma which he considered
Captain Dixon had cast on 1t through
the epithets he alleged Dixon applied
to him, Attorney Morton said:
1--WE will do Mr.. Gage the justice of
stating that we think he was not at
any time conscious of harboring in his
hotel any questionable characters We
further belive that in view of the re-
ports which came to Captain Dixon
he was justified In believing that Gage
was what he is accused of having
called him."
The color rapidly mounted to Mayor
Alexander's face.
"Mr. Norton" he said, put yourself
in Cages place. He was called name
that you and I would have resented
with a pistol ball-and now you try to
pass 1t off as a mere nothing. Did Cap
tain Dixon have the right to believe the
word of fallen women against de-
cent man, such as Gage?"
Morton attempted to make reply,
but the mayor continued:
''It Is the most notorious attempt to
blacken a mans character that 1 have
ever heard of"
Prosecution and defense rested their
cases, and the matter was set for ar
n