Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-10-12
Rad RUBBISH.

The Police Court Finally Rids Itself of
the Ricks-Jensen Controversy.
j. w. Kicks was yesterday tried in the
Police Court for attempt to commit rob-
berry, and discharged. Mrs. Jensen. the
prosecuting witness, testified to the facts
published in the RECORD UNION the day
after the alleged offense. She told how she
that he would marry her, and after they
had taken a room in the New William Tell
House, how he tried to induce her 10 smell
handkerchief that was saturated with
ehlor form. Previous to this he had asked
her to put her money, some $500, under the
pillow of her bed, and she concluded, from
his actions, thst It was his intention to rob
her.
Z. G. Hart, who represented Kicks in the
case, subjected Mrs Jensen to rigid cross
examination. She admitted that she had
lived in Chicago, was divorced once, and
had been married sgain by contract 10
man who vas represented TO be one Judge
Clark, and afterwards as DR.. Clark She
had not yet been divorced from him She
came to San Francisco to avoid the scandal
which she mad gotten into while in Chi
cage, and was keeping lodging house at
the bay when she net Kicks. She thought
him TO be a gentleman, snd her heart went
out to him.
Mrs. Jensen admitted on the stand that
she had pursued a certain line of criminal
malpractice She also admitted that Kicks
did not attempt to use any force to compel
her to inhale the chloroform, and that she
preferred the charge b. cause she thought he
was deceiving her in net sending her
trunks from San Francisco. She further
said that after Kicks had gone from the
room she took teaspoonful of the liquid
with which the handkerchief was saturated,
and didn't care whether she died or not.
Judge Buckley asked her if she had in
tended to commit suicide, and she replied
that she guessed that was about it. She
felt doHnhearted because everybody. she
thought, was trying TO rob her of her
money. She said that r cks had given her
a gold watch that evening, and she in.
tended to keep it until he paid her $40
which he owed her.
After the prosecution had rested Mr..
Hart moved TO discharge the defendant on
the ground that from the evidence intro
duced there was not shown any attempt to
commit robbery, nor that the prosecuting
witness was forced to inhale chloroform.
City Attorney Church made no opposi-
ton 20 the motion, and Judge Buckley.
with few remarks, discharged the de-
PENDANT.
Kicks then arose and explained to the
Court that he did not make Mrs Jensen a
present Of the watch, but simply asked her
to keep it for him. He knew he was liable
to get on spree, and the article might be
then stolen from him, He explained TO
the Court that the watch was not his, but
the property of lady in San Francisco,
and he had taken it for the purpose of get
ting il repaired.
Judge Buckley said he thought it was no
more than right for the prosecuting witness
TO give up the watch. She had no right to
keep it even If the defendant owed her any.
thing, which he denied.
Thus ended the case. Mrs Jensen stated
in Court that she was going back to Chi
cago this evening, and intended to make
things lively for her enemies back there.