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it as outlaws, and are liable at any time to be detected and dealt with as 

 outlaws. 



5th. Our last city election was a very decided majority expression in 

 favor of the law as it is, for every officer elected was pledged to maintain it ; 

 and there is general satisfaction with the law among our best citizens. 

 There is no intention of repealing it. Signed, 



M. M. Parker, president city council. 



A. G. Throop, member city council. 



S. TowNSEND, member city council. 



A. McIyEAN, member city council. 



J. B. Young, member city council. 



James H. Cambell, city clerk. 



I. N. MUNDEI.L, city marshal. 



P. A. V. Van DorEn, city recorder [police judge]. 



Frank J. Polley, city attorney. 



' The Enforcement Committee continued its work in strict accordance 

 with the resolutions of August 6, 1888, and the object set forth in the En- 

 forcement Fund notes. More than a dozen cases of violation of the law 

 reported by the regular police officers had to be dismissed without prose- 

 cution, for want of such precise and exact evidence regarding date, place, 

 time of day, who sold, who bought, how dispensed, proof as to name or kind 

 of liquor, etc. , as was necessary to meet and withstand the technical catch- 

 points raised by attorneys in defense of the parties arrested. This made it 

 necessary to employ detectives. The men of the regularly established detec- 

 tive agency, as I explained before, and also one regular policeman who 

 made the case against John Dolan, had been driven out of town by the 

 hoodlum element ; but others came forward from time to time [ten in all] to 

 meet the emergency.* One of these was beaten, gouged, seriously injured, 

 and driven away. Another's life was threatened ; and once a pistol was 

 drawn upon him, but he also whisked a revolver out from his hip pocket 

 and got an aim first, and his assailant wilted — afterward plead guilty to 

 whisky selling, paid a fine, and left town. Two of the detectives were ar- 

 raigned on fallacious charges, and compelled to stand trial at some other 

 place, on pretense of the liquor men that a fair trial could not be had in 

 Pasadena. So a jury trial of the case was held at Garvanza ; and the two 



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*Nov. 10. 188S ; "Moved and supported that the marshal and the attorney be instructed to use aU • 

 due vigilance to enforce ordinance No. 125 [same as orignal No. 45], and every violation of said ordinance 

 to be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. ' Carried."— 0'/,v Clerk's record , ^ 



Aug. 3, 1889. The question of detective police service was before the council, on a bill of $25 due C. 

 L. Case in the whisky selling case against Fred Frechette. The service had been rendered under sanc- 

 tion of the city marshal, and bill "O. K'd." by him. The clerk's record .says : 



"City attorney stated that the city had the right to appropriate money for the use of the police de- 

 partment in detective and similar work, etc." Whereupon the board unauimou.sly voted " that the ac- 

 tion of the city marshal in his endeavor to enforce the law be fully endorsed by this board." And so the 

 bill was ordered paid. . . . 



A rankling and furious hostility was worked up against the employment of detective service in 

 the.se cases, during all the months of this " Whisky War" period. Yet I find that city attorney W. E. 

 Arthur in some similar cases during the first week in February, 1895, sustained such service. From the 

 Weekly Star of Feb 6 I quote : " Judge Rose's speech in support of his case [attorney for the liquor sel- 

 ler] was for the most part a bitter invective against detective Vinnell and the slimy ways of detectives." 

 * * " City attorney Arthur stated that evidence in these cases cannot be procured itt any other way — 

 that the men who commonly violate the law will not testify against the violators." Thus the city council 

 of 1888-89 stands vindicated. 



