The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-03-01
The Councilman Called Bo0dler, Nobbed
and Threatened With a
Rope.

body. Put halter around nm,
"My names not woodward" Bood-
Ter" Thief" were some OF the louu
wells that were kept up II was d
more serious crowd than. that "h 4t,
chased woodward TO shelter IN tue
City Prison last week. Iney lfleQ LII, tJ
night to carry out some or theiI
threats. and only the big body guard
with which Rrosnahan was surrounded
prevented II. ~
After a stay of a few minutes in the
saloon Brosnahan and his guard came
out and proceeded toward BroauWay'
The mob followed, more violently IN
clined than ever, and largely increased.
They surrounded the Councilman ana
proceeded down Broadway to Eighth
and all the distance the mob hoWled
like demons. They made several at
tempts to reach their man, but were
pushed back by the police. AS they
passed the Oakland Water Company's
office the sight of the place melted the
mob to fresh anger and the Chief
stretched his men across the street
and forbade any one to go on the block
after BrOsnahan and his friends had
passed the corner.
Then Oakland witnessed a sight. A
short distance along Eighth street from
Broadway a city Councilman was pro-
.tected by handful of policemen, while
he attempted to draw his gun and fire.
quently repeated that he would like to
Kill a few people and was not Wood
ward"
AT the end of the street, kept back by
a row of few officers was yelling mob
of thousand people, but they could
not be restrained, and a moment later
they We're surrounding another saloon,
into which Brosnahan had been taken
by his friends.
While in there, Judge Friek and Fred
Murdoch, Assistant Fire Chief, became
quarrelsome and some blows were
struck, and the sight of a fight excited
the crowd Mr. Murdoch was bundled
out and followed the crowd that was
yelling after Brosnahan.
Finally Brosnahan was landed at his
home door, but he refused to go in. He
wanted to go uptown and shoot a few
people, and was very ugly to the Off
GERS, but finally he was put inside.
When the crowd was satisfied that
there was nothing more to yell at,
Frank Valerga addressed them and in
cidentally the Chief OF. Police Valerga
berated the department and wanted to
know why -Br0snahan had not been ar
rested like any other drunken man.
Nalerga stated that tomorrow he
would swear out warrants against
Brosnahan for disturbing. the peace
and several other breaches of the law
: And poor Woodward-he was forgot
ten. He left the City Hall with hardly
a. jeer, hardly hiss. Several men saw
hirl to his home, hut one would have
done. 1t was not. Woodward g night. :
The major is a renlarka bic man. He
discusses his actions with APPARENT nom
ehafance, but shows clearly that he is
between Mephistopheles and a very
deep sea To return to the path of vir-
tue would be worse condemnation and
greater proof of the origin of the ex-
tortionate water rate resolution than
the allied companions will allow. To
continue along the present line is to
court the indignation of fellow-citizens
and soldiers for the rest of his term Of
office. and yet, this unhappy condition
does not materially Tease the major.
:: Politics is evidently a good thing for
Councilman Woodward His appoint
meut as Councilman changed his luck.
'TWenty-four hours after his appoint
ment Councilman Woodward was in
clover. In the parlanee of the street
he was flush. Everybody knew that for
a couple of years at least the Major had
been playing in hard luck. Little by
little his belongings fell away from
him. The last of the Majors belong
ings were held in pawn by a money
lender named 3, F. Lewis, who resides
on. Franklin street The goods were
stored in a warehouse on Thirteenth
street. Bright and early last Saturday
morning the Major appeared at the
store with a cancellation of the chattei
mortgage and an order from Lewis for
the release of the goods, as the secur-
tiles had been satisfied.
The Major also made a purchase of
Some furniture for which he paid cash
and in addition was sufficiently wealthy
to pay the arrears in storage. On
Washington's birthday the Major spent
his time moving into a new house of
more pretentious appearance than the
humble rooms he had occupied before
becoming city official.
Certainly an appointment on Friday