The San Francisco call., 1896-02-20
THAT BLUE ENVELOPE,
A Fair Officer Served a Sum.
mons On Mrs. Emma
Gregory.
WOMAN OUTWITS WOMAN.
The Well-Known Lady Suffragist in
the Power of a Defrauded
Landlord.
WOMAN OUTWITS WON

Feminine hnesse served novel purpose
at a meeting of the Woman's Republican
State Central Club last evening.
The proceedings had progressed to the
point of extending vote OF thanks to the
speakers, that is, Mrs. Emma Gregory was
about to move such a vote when a pretty
young woman. modishlv dressed and
wearing dainty short bowed glasses, left
her place near the door from which she
had witnessed the proceedings.
II beg your pardon. Is this Mrs. Greg
ory ?'' she asked sweetly.
Mrs. Gregory smilingly answered in the
affirmative.
II promised to deliver this note" said
the young lady. Mrs. Gregory thanked
the bearer, who smilingly made her exit.
Mrs. Gregory did not break the seal OF
the robins egg-blue envelope until she
bad finished her speech extolling the tai.
ents of the speakers of the evening, Judge
Cooney and Edgar Briggs.
When she settled back into her chair
after the five minutes address, she drew
from the square blue envelope big legal
document that had been doubled and care
fully placed therein She had been served
with an order of examination and she will
appear before Justice Groezinger on the
28th inst. or be fined for contem pt of court.
Mrs. Emma Gregory is a weIl-known
advocate OF woman suffrage. She is q
member of the constitutional amend
ment campaign committee of Cali
fornia and has always raised her
voice in protest against political ine-
quality. She is also one of the faction
that has come to be known as the "dis-
senting Portias." Her intelligence and
education have never been questioned,
but of late there has been some expression
of doubt as TO her ho nesty.
Last March Mrs. Emma Gregory, her
husband and her son-in-law and daugh ter,
DR.. and Mrs. Gregory Flesher, left fat.
at 819 LON bard street, at the request of
their landlord, Mr.. McCluskey, as thew
were in arrears to the amount of S12O for
rent.
DR.. Flesher was sued for the amount, but
pleaded his inability to pay it. Mrs.
Gregory was taken to account for the same,
but said she and her husband merely
boarded with them and were not response
Die for the debts of DIR. and Mrs. Flesher.
Judgment was secured for the amount
of the delinquency.
But rumor that an expected legacy had
been received by the family became rife
and Mr.. McCluskey accordingly arranged
for the issuance of an order of examina-
ton. 1t was issued in December, but so
vigilant was the dissenting Portia and her
family that it had not been served up to
last evening. The door was barricaded at
just the proper legal height and the mes
sengers of the law always returned bear
ing the order and detected expression,
The pretty young lady was equal to the
occasion, however, and last evening she
rose to it with admirable acumen. Mrs. J..
Cooper, who served the summons, is fa-
miiar with the duties of an attorneys
clerk. She also knows the habits and idio-
syncrasies of her sex. When she learned
that Mrs. Gregory would be in attendance
at the club she inclosed the much-worn
sum mons, addressed TO DR.. Flesher and
family IN an envelope of the stereotyped
sort used by ladies who receive and car
rled the coup d'etat to its successful issue
of last evening.
DIR. Gregory Flesher, who dropped his
own christian name and assumed his
brides surname instead upon their mar
rage, is Ill charge of the pharmacy at
Halght and Pierce streets.