The San Francisco call., 1895-11-17

swearing that he would kill the first -
policeman that came into that house. We
| bluffed him out and went in, arrested him
! for disturbing the peace and searched the
house, but didn't find the girl. Rourke
got her next day at her annt's down on
! Sixth street. When Rourke first got the
! oir] that dav by the way, she was going
With him to ST. Charles place to point out
man." :,
julia Christensen is little girl of 13
wears. with great deal of the kind OF
worldly experience that may be gained: In
| that part of the City. The "home" she
| has known is at Ais Union street. The
| cobbled pavement OF. that block slopes at
! an angle of about forty five degrees, and
the frame cottages, old and dirty. and the
big and dirty tenements from dupont 70
| Kearny streets hold their full share of the
| population. At Ais Union street little,
| narrow. much worn and ricKety stairway
| leads upward from close to the front door
| and narrow hallway runs backward be
| side it. A little old woman with a faded
straw hat and much-worn shaWi, Which
she gathered hastily about her to make
herself more presentable, poked her head
out of a little door at the end OF the hall
way and sharply demanded, What do
YOU want?' She didn't know what sort OF
an officer she was talking to and was some
what guarded in the conversation which
followed, while all the time the maudlin
women resounded in some back ROOM
81 don't know anything about It. Mis-
ter" she protested, land l can't tnd out.
My girl is 13 years old and she Is good
enough girl and never wanted anyot her
support: / am widow for hve years, but
1 support myself and the girl, tooy with
what my boy can give me. NO, don't
know any of those gentlemen, 'cept L saw
the pictures of three of them in the paper,
and Idon't know if nay. girl knows them.
l don't know where she got them. shoes.
She said she found them. She never
brought me home any money, hut she
said once in a while that she'd run an
errand and had 10 cents or so, and some
times she got candy and little things that
way. Sometimes she wouldn't tell me
where she got them. Yes, she was out all
night last Saturday night, but / don't
know where she was. =.
81 have been sending her to a free sew
ing school, because | wanted her to be
dressmaker and be able to make her living,
| but sometimes she wouldn't go there, and
sometimes she wouldn't come home; all
day.: I'd ask her what she did without
something to eat all day, but she wouldn't
| tell me anything. Of course, couldn't
keep her in the house all the time, and l
never whipped her. Did she say / whipped
herP No, ! don't know the first, blessed
thing about those gentlemen. L think II
it is SO. it is scandalous. Such gentle,
iHeu dS tudG .ouSnt W 10 eoHonS0
of themselves. Why, 1t is ridicu-
| lous When she comes home guess I'll
put her out in some good family. II men
| didn't act that way women would have
more respect for them, Why, it is. scan
dalous the way men Insult me sometimes
around here" =
1t was from that home that little Julia
Christensen has long been straying at her
will amid the vice and temptations of that
part of the City. She is" one of the: three
little girls who remained all night in the
attic of Lanes yellow mansion at ~Filbert
and Dupont streets last Saturday night.
| A slouchily dressed, but decent appear
ing woman on the sidewalk, said,|..I am
Mrs Guinasso," anu, carrying a little
baby. led the way up another stairway at
ALB Union street. Her daughter Eva is
one of the ten little girls that are held to
tell their stories in court. She led the way
up two long narrow and dirty flights of
stairs past various dogs and children TO
rear room of the top story, which appeared
to be parlor, dining-room and kitchen.
Then all she was able to say was, 81 no
speak English" and tried to explain that
her husband worked somewhere on Green
street. She had open blush eyes and a
manner that suggested that she was as
respectable as far as conduct and ideas of
life go as most people of that neighbor-
hood. These two homes are types of those
from which large proportion of the
twenty-five or thirty little victims have