Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-04-27

The Foundation of an Extensive Quarrel
Among Neighbors.
The Police Court was graced yesterday
morning by the presence of large number
of ladies who live on Ninth street between
F and G, and their friends, who were wit
nesses in a set of charges against Mrs. Liz
zie Lutz, Mrs. Mary A. Fades and Mrs.
John Dickinson
Mrs. Lutz was charged by Mrs. Dickin-
son with disturbing the peace and battery:
Mrs. Fades was charged by Mrs. Dickinson
with disturbing the peace, and Mrs. Dick
inson was charged with disturbing the
peace by Mrs. Lutz.
Mrs. Lutz and Mrs. Fades stood alone as
witnesses on one side OF the controversy.
and Mrs. Dickinson had on her side Mrs.
Minnie Scott, Mrs. Imogene Coleman, Mrs.
Alice Becker and Mrs. Clara Genial. The
testimony was decidedly conflicting. and
the preponderance of evidence was in about
the same proportion as the number of wit
nesses on each side. All of the cases were
heard together except the battery case
against Mrs. Lutz
From the evidence all taken together II
appears that Mrs. LuiZ and Mrs. Dickinson
had been friendly until short time ago,
when Mrs. Fades had occasion to severely
chastise her daughter Katie. The girl,
who IS 10 years of age, went to the neigh
bors for sympathy and protection, as they
claim, while her mother claims that they
encouraged her to leave her home and re-
main away. Mrs. LuIz took sides with
Mrs. Fades, and there has been a bitter
ness growing up among the people on the
block, which eliminated On Wednesday of
last week in an open disturbance of the
peace.
Mrs. Lutz claimed that Mrs. Dickinson
struck her with a parasol and Mrs Fades
corroborated the statement, while the wit
nesses on the other side testified that Mrs.
Dickinson did not strike her, but only
shook her psrasol at her while talking to
her, and that Mrs. Lutz called Mrs. Dlckin-
son vile names. Mrs. Becker testified that
Mrs. Lutz also abused her on the same
day.
In the battery case Mrs. Scott, Mrs. Cole
man and Mrs. Becker testified positively
that they saw Mrs. Fades strike Mrs. Dick
inson's little girl, while Mrs. Lutz swore
positively that she never struck her at all
The only part which Mrs. Fades appears
to have taken in the difficulty seems to
have been that she stood by Mrs. Lutz and
capped her hands and cried: Good,
good !" She was accordingly found not
guilty Of the charge Of disturbing the
peace.
Mrs. Dickinson was found not guilty of
disturbing the peace, and Mrs. Lutz was
found guilty of disturbing the peace and
battery, and ordered to appear for sentence
Saturday.
metropolitan Theater.
Miss Annie Pixley had a good audience
in size last night and one thoroughly ap-
preciative. The lady is charming COM
edienne, vocalist of much ability and is
intelligent and natural in her difficult char
acter acts. The Deacon's Daughter " is a
igE but pleasing comedy, with pathetic
shadipgs that are true to nature and serve
TO ma 'ihe wit Of the play all the more
sparkling. In Ruth and Mabel she gives
us fresh, chaste and artful examples of act
ing of a good type, not exalted or sensa-
tional, but true to nature and appealing to
the best sentiments of the intel
ligence and the sensibiliies of the
heart. The company is competent
throughout Indeed, Mr. Days Isaiah is
a consummate work, and scarcely second
to it is the low comedy part of Mary, taken
by Mary Thompson. That of Tomkins, by
Mr.. Cullington, is unnatural, extravagant
in conception and extravagantly played.
1t is the only role that needs to be thor
oughly cut and revolutionized. Tonight
will be the last of the company here, when
it will present the drama of THE Charity
Girl" with Miss Pixley as Carrie Ripe.
The scenes are laid in England, and the
time is the present.