The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-08-31
And "Blinker Brown" Rolling
a Pseudo Drunk Was
Hooked.
LANDED IN THE CITY PRISON
Most of the Cargo and Machinery Of
the Wrecked Co ombia Have
Been Removed.

William Sarlund is fisherman of credit
and renown, and has just made the catch
of the season.
William lives at the bayside inn of
Mary Sandlin, located at 206 Steuart
street. Around in the neigh borhood may
be seen a Waterfront character known as
"BIinker Brown" who possesses an IN
savory police record. At the Sacramento
street station he is listed as "arunk-
roller" a constituencies individual who
rolls intoxicated people over for profit as
they are dreaming blissfully on the hard
dock-planks.
Last Friday night Sarlund fell into the
hands of ''Blinker" Brown and permitted
"Blinker" to absorb So % of his money.
1t is needless to say that Sarlund was
snoring midnight hymn to the pale
face moon, with his head against spar
and his feet hanging over the end of the
wharf, at the time the transfer took place.
When Sarlund came back from the lotus
land of dreams he missed his money and
straightway kicked.
His kick appealed TO the sympathetic
soul of Mrs. Sandlin and she set trap for
"Blinker" Brown-or, rather, she set a
hook for him.
While Sarlund was finishing his nap in
bed like q respectable person she took his
trousers and sewed fishhooks on the inside
Of mis- pockets, the treacherous barbed
things set so they would not fail to hold
whatever entered there. Then she placed
a few jingling coins in those loaded
pockets and made Sarlund get up and
dress.
He was instructed to keep his own hands
out OF his own pockets and lie around
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him. This he did, and Brown was soon
noticed to be lettering suspiciously in the
vicinity of the pseudo-drunk, Matted for his
benefit. The fisherman played his role
well, and the human fish presently
plunged his hand into Sarlund's pocket,
and, as he clutched the coins, the hooks
snatched him.
Then there was a howl. The more
Brown tried to withdraw the deeper the
Sarlund didn't help matters any, and
when Officers Callahan and Dillon
swooped down upon the pair the would-be
''drunk-roller's" undoing was complete.
The hooks were with difficulty extracted
from his wounded hand and he was
marched away to the Harbor Police Sta
ton. The trousers, with loaded pockets
and the coins be didn't get accomp panied
hiin as evidence of his criminal blunder.
The tug Alert, Captain Bro kaw, re-
turned Saturday night from the wreck of
the Colombia at Pigeon Point with sloop
Volante in tow. The latter vessel was
loaded with the donkey boiler of the lost
steamship, the remains of her engines
and large amount of the damaged cargo.
Captain Drisko, who has been busily strip
ping the wreck, has so far cleaned out the
hull that little more remains aboard.
The main boilers have been loosened
from the bottom plates and the Volante
will take down a derrick for the purpose of
completing the work. Some of the cargo
yet remains in the forward hold and dyna-
mite will be used to get it out. The side OF
the Colombia will be blown out, and what
will not float ashore will be secured by
divers. The propeller will be broken off
by the explosion, and both it and the shaft
from the steamer.