Arizona republican., 1919-03-22
MAYOR IF LOS
 ANGELES FACES
 GRAF I CHARGES
Mayor Woodman Indicted By Grand Jury Charge He Took Bribe To Protect Organized Vice.
Republican A. p. Leased Wirel

LOS ANGELES, March 21.-Mayor Frederic T. Woodman of Los Angeles was indicted by the county grand jury here tonight on a charge of receiving Q bribe for the protection of vice. George Brown and George Henderson were in dicted on a charge of giving a bribe, in connection with the same transaction.
 The indictment against MT. Wood man, stripped of it's legal verbiage, charges him with the crime of asking, receiving and agreeing to receive Q bribe," a felony.
 It recites the fact of his official pO- sition and charges that on or about January l. 1919. the mayor agreed to accept from George Brown and George Henderson the total sum of $25,000 in monthly payments of S2,50Q each. and that $2,000 was actually paid to former newspaper man for the mayor, the payments being in return for pro- lection to Brown and Henderson in un lawful sales of liquor, in conducting houses of ill-repute without interfer ence and in conducting gambling places and games.
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 The indictment goes into detail as to how the mayor was to furnish the pro- tection alleged to have been secured.
 The bond of each of the defendants, Mayor Woodman, Brown and Tender son. was fixed at $10,000. Brown and Henderson already were in jail. Brown being held on a previous indictment charging him with intimidating a wit ness before the grand jury, and Hen derson having been held without the filing of a formal charge pending ac tion by the grand jury.
 Thomas Lee Woolwine. district at torney, stated tonight that a warrant had been issued on the indictment for the apprehension of the mayor and that it was in the hands of officers for SerV ice. Belief was expressed about the grand jury rooms that the mayor would appear tomorrow morning with bonds men and submit to arrest.
 The mayor was in seclusion tonight and declined to be seen or to make any comment on the action of the grand jury. Captain John D. Fredericks, at torney for MT. Woodman, issued this statement.
 Mayors Attorney Denies 1t
 "The return of the indictment against the mayor will at last furnish an op- portunity to get out into the open all these charges of graft and bribery. It will put an end to these innuendoes in volving the name of the mayor. At the proper time and place, the mayor will appear and state the facts. He is en- tirely innocent of these charges Mayor Woodman was selected for that office by vote of the city council | September s, 1918. to succeed c. E. Se- bastian, who resigned from the may orality. MT. Woodman was, prior to | that time, president of the Los An geles board of harbor commissioners. He had been named to that position by | Mayor Alexander and had served | through the terms of Mayors H. r, Rose and C.. F. Sebastian, until the resignation of the latter.
 MT. Woodman came to Los Angeles about ten years ago from Concord, N. H. In Concord, he served for a time as attorney for the Boston and Maine railroad and was also sent to the New Hampshire legislature for two terms, in 1900 and 1901, He is widower and 47 years of age. He was reputed to be independently wealthy when he be- came mayor.