Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1913-09-26
B|XBY USED TO
Be A GOOD
Thing
IN TEST|FYING REGARDING HIS
"PHILANTnROPIC VISITS TO
The JONQUIL, Los ANGELES MIL
LIONAIRE ADMITS GIVING AWAY
THOUSANDS.
AN ARCHITECT ALSO
GAVE GIRLS S2,500

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| Los Angeles, Call Sept. 26.-An-
iother verbal struggle between the law
yers in the BiXby trial today follow
ed the prosecutions announcement
of an effort to impeach the testimony
Ios the millionaire, who in his own
behalf testified yesterday that he
maintained only philanthropic rela-
tons with the girls against whom he
is accused of having committed statu-
tory offenses.
Prosecutor Asa Hayes said that to
do this would recall to the witness
stand Cleo Helen Barker, BiXby's ac-
cuser in the case on trial, and the
other girls who already have testi-
fed. Bixby's lawyers Immediately OBJ
jected
The first witness today was S. S.
Parsons, auditor of the Citizens Ma
| tonal bank of Los Angeles, who ldenti-
fled checks aggregating $4,000 signed
IDN tJCldNJuS MOl Sdl anu Wv PchisN@ w
the account of w. H. Stevens, one OF
the attorneys for Cleo Helen Barker
and Marie Brown Levy, who, accord
ing to Bixby, had planned a series OF
matchmaking suits against prominent
men.
| Morgan, an elderly architect, de-
clined to testify regarding the alleged
blackmailing operations against him
on the ground that such testimony
might degrade him.
George H. Bixby took the witness
stand in his own behalf yesterday
and making a general denial of all ac'
cusations against himA asserted that
his acquaintance with inmates OF the
Jonquil. a notorious resort, had been
gained entirely through philanthropy
Bixby said he first met Emma j..
, Goodman. proprietress of the Jonqull'
now serving year in the county jail
in the autumn of 1907 She was IN
troduced to him as Mrs. Josie Rosen-
terg.
81 had received from Randsburg.
Calf, request to aid an inmate OF
Mrs. Rosenberg's establishment" he
explained at was a girl named Mar
ion. who was i'll. l became interested
il. her and gave her 500 so that she
might go home to her mother. Later
gave Mrs. Rosenberg $500 more to
give to the girl Marion is now mar
lied and living a respectable life.
Mrs. Rosenberg suggested that I
might be talked about if were known
at her place by my true name SO
used the first one which came into my
mind-King."
An attorney interrupted to ask IL
Rixby had not previously given an
ether girl 500. The witness said he
had as he had been sorry for her.
Bixby said Mrs. Rosenberg moved to
new neighborhood and for four
years he knew nothing concerning
her.
"One day." he continued, "she tele-
rIoned to me that there was in her
place a girl who was the mother or
child and needed help. l called at
the house and found the girl who tes-
tilted against me here under the name
OF Helen Nieblas.
Mrs. Rosenberg said the girl want
ed to buy rooming house so l gave
her $500. Later l gave her $500
more Then l went on vacation and
when I returned Mrs. Rosenberg told
me the girl had invested the money
foolishly in poor place. l then gave
$1,000 more with which to buy another
rooming house. l gave her $4,000 i'll
all.
Il met Cleo Helen Barker at the
Jonquil last January when l called
there to learn how the Nieblas girl
vas progressing. She told me her
mother lived in Grand Rapids, Mich,
and that she wanted to see her.
gave her $50. Mrs. Rosenberg told
me the Barker girl wanted to marry
a young man who was working in
a shooting gallery. | went back with
$500 more the same day, Two weeks
, later | saw the girl again. She said
that she had foster parents living at
Claremont. Calf, and wanted to pro-
vide for them l gave her $500 more.
: Il never saw the girl again until
she testified against me in the court
Iroom."
, Bixby swore that of the other girls
who testified against him he knew
Cnly one--Grace Redwine. He denied
il detail all accusations of immorali-
, ty. When he was excused, the pros
ecution began an attempt to impeach
, his testimony. Arguments over the
admissibility of the evidence of one
} c. the accusing girls was not conclud.
! &c when court adjourned.
Octavius Morgan. the aged archl-
r tcct. proved an unwilling witness yes.
1 terday, replying to nearly all ques'
tions that to answer them would de-
0 grade him. He admitted, however.
0 having given a total of s2500 to girls
0 IL the JonQuil.