The San Francisco call., 1898-04-02
LOST HIS LOVE
 AND HIS CASH Why Alonzo McIver Be- gan Suit in the Jus
 tice Court. Woman He Adored Took His Coin and Then Married
 Another. Justice Groezinger Decides for the Defendant After Reading
 Some Letters.

Loves labor and money lost" was the burden of tale of woe that was told in Justice of the Peace Groezinger's court yesterday.
 Alonzo McIver was suing Frank P. Howard and Emelie Howard for s150, money advanced to the fair defendant in the action when she was yet a single woman. McIver, according to- his own admissions on the stand, was desperately in love with the fair Emelie, and was at the time the money was alleged to have been advanced the possessor of consid- erable coin. ne was a habitue of the race track and a plunger in a way. She who afterward became Mrs. How ard accepted his presents and attentions, the former including numerous sums of money that were itemized in the bill of particulars.
 While Emelie and Alonzo were friends, according to the testimony, she was &C., customed to draw on him for whatever funds she needed. These items began along about March, 1896, and the first sum that McIver alleged to be due him was enable the lady of his affections to join the French Benevolent Society. Then came an item that reads as follows:
 Cash. July 10, 1896. when F. P. Howard broke his leg, $10.
 F. P. Howard is the party defendant. About this time McIver's inamorata de- cided to go East, and the bill of particu- lars says that McIver advanced $40 for a second-class ticket that was to carry her there.
 When Mrs. Towards father needed some shirts and other little necessities McIVer'S complaint says that he paid for them at well-known haberdasher's on Market street. Then there was S20 cash advanced when the lady in the case was out of funds.
 In September, 1896, the prospective Mrs. McIver was in Wellington, Kan, and wanted to return to- San Francisco. The plaintiffs itemiZed account says that he advanced her $50 for that purpose. Al together he claims that he 'loaned'' the lady S150
 And yet when she came back from the East she united her life and fortunes husband, is made a party defendant in the case McIver alleged that he had parted with his coin because the fair Emelie had requested the money Tn the nature of loans. Mrs. Howard said that the money was presented to her in the nature of tokens of McIver's affections.
 To prove that McIver was head over heels in love with her Mrs. Howard pro- duced Mrs. George w. Parsons as wit ness in her behalf. The witness, a dash ing blonde, whose husband works with Howard as a telegraph operator in the office of a morning daily, and who was McIver had escorted her home on more than one occasion, and while on these pleasant journeys had poured forth his tale of love for the lovely Emelie.
 What was your condition as to sobri- ety while with McIver?" asked the at torney for the plaintiff when Mrs. Par sons finished her story. The lawyers fn- tention was apparently to show that there had been a jolly hue time. Jus tce Groezinger ruled out the question, however, and the indignant Mrs. Parsons was not permitted to answer.
 To clinch it's case the defense intro duced a large number of letters written by McIver to the lady who tilted him, in which he used every endearing name known to lovers and spelled pet peat. V He told her there was nothing he would not do for her; that his heart, his hand and his fortune were at her feet, and that though she did not answer his let ters as regularly as he wished, he loved her still
 After reading these endearing epistles Justice Groezinger decided that the sums advanced could not have been exactly in the nature of loans and gave Judgment against McIver.