The morning call., 1894-05-31
IN FEMALE GARB.
An Actor Plays the Part
of a Siren.
is CHARGED WITH ROBBERY.
His Accomplish Was a Barbary
Coast Waitress.
IS CHARGED WITH ROBBERY.
THEIR VICTIM AN OLD FARMER.
He CAME From Napa to Deposit Some
Money and Met the Couple in
Bottle Meier'S Theater.

Among the spectators who most vocif-
erOusly applauded the edlfying per-
Torrance at Bottle Meier's theater on
Pacific street on Tuesday night was c.
+. Rodge, an aged granger from Napa.
The merry quips of the comedians and the
warbling OF the nightingales in abbre-
waited skirts filled his untutored soul with
bliss. AS midnight approached ROdge
began to feel the pangs of thirst and he
left the theater for a saloon. uncon scous
OF the fact that two frail damSels were
following him. He entered one of the all
night groggeries on the coast and called
for drink. The girls entered behind him,
and when he looked into their sweet
faces, wistfully regarding the bottles be-
hind the bar, the gallantry of his youth re-
awakened within him.
will the ladies have something's" he
asked.
deed we WILL" was the enthusiastic
reply, and straigntway there were three
whisky glasses on the bar where one had
been. Mir. Rodge paid for the drinks ana
thrust his hand into his inside vest pocket
10 make sure that a roll of green backs
amounting to $3.50 was still there. He sat-
lsied himself that this money which he had
brought with him from Napa TO deposit in
savings bank was in its place, and
BIdclOuSIy accepted an invitation TO take q
walk with the ladies.
Two hours later the granger arrived
sat the old City Prison in the patrol wagon,
and was carried into a cell. he was very
drunk, and had forgotten the name by
which he was known to his fellow-men.
When he awOke in the morning he turned
his pockets inside out, but nothing was re-
vealed by the act that looked like a roll Of
green backs. The desk sergeant declared
that the money was not in Rodge's poses
sion when he was searched, and the re-
pentant and half sober rustic intimate
that he had been robbed by the patrOlman
who arrested him. Rodge was asked
where and with whom he had spent the
time prior TO his arrest, and when he con-
fessed that he had walked for two hours
with two mice young ladies'" the police
knew the rest. Rodge described the sirens
with whom he had been, and officers were
detailed to arrest them.
They took the old man back to Bottle
Meters and there he without hesitation
pointed out waitress as one of the women
with whom he had taken walk, but lie
could not find the other. A youRg man
was standing near the bar and upon him
R0dge looked for time with puzzled eyes.
That's the other one," he finally ex-
claimed, "Only it had dress on last
night"
The officers, Patrolmen McMa hon and
Wren. cOmprenended the situation at once
The young man at the bar was Bert la
Rose, female imrersonator employed at
the theater. They learned that he while
dressed in his Stage costume had drunk
with ROdge ard had followed him out of
the theatsr with the waitress, who calls
herself Lillian Darrell. La Rose and the
woman were arrested ana charged with
grand larceny at the old prison. They
emphatically denied having had anything
to do with Rodge's greenbacks, but as the
nf W. ha
membered that while the wa iress was
embracing him the impersOnator thrust a
hand into his breast. The old man thinks
he was drugged.