The San Francisco call., 1899-03-31
CHAMBERMAID
SUES A GUEST
FOR DAMAGES
Seeks a Heavy Sum
for a Beating.
HOTEL PLEASANT0N STIRRED
S. RoE'S VIOLENT TEMPER
CREATES TROUBLE.
Was Accidentally Locked in His
Room and Afterward Wreaked
Vengeance on Weak
Woman.
HOTEL PLEASANT0N STIRRED
S. RoE's VIOLENT TEMPER
CREATES TROUBLE.

If Charles s. Roe, a wealthy ChcagoaIl,
who was a guest at the Hotel Pleasanton
up to Wednesday night, could hear the
opinions expressed by the lady guests Oh
that fashionable caravansary he might
consider himself the brute he is charged
with being. According to the former, Mr..
Roe is a nasty mean old thing, brute,
a villain and other detestable things. r Or
tunately for Mr.. Rec, these pleasant re-
marks have missed his ears, as he Is
speeding back 10 Chicago in an euort 10
escape the service Of a $4,000 lawsuit filed
against him yesterday by Miss Lizzie NJ.
Boyd, a chambermaid at the hotel VINO
accuses him of severely beating her.
Through her attorneys, Messrs, Knight
and Hooper, the lady filed her action, al
Ieging that he unlawfully and brutally
beat her, much to her bodily pain and
suffering, and as q result she is confined
to her bed and will not be able to attend
to business for many weeks, and that she
has expended the sum Of 800 in DOCTOR
bills.
A pathetic story of a much injured
chambermaid and violent man underlies
the filing of the suit. On Tuesday last
Miss Boyd, in the course Of her employ
ment, had occasion TO enter Mr.. Roe's
room. Believing him to be out she opened
the door and entered, but was surprised
to see the defendant asleep on his couch.
She deposited some clean towels on the
dresser and tptoed out of the room for
fear she might awaken Mr.. Roe, whose
crankiness was known TO the servants
Of the hotel. In her excitement, through
force of habit, she locked the sleeper in.
When he attempted to leave some min
utes later he was astonished to find him
self a prisoner. He was instantly thrown
into a frenzy and nearly broke the call
bell in an effort TO have himself released.
The "beIIhop came rushing down the
hall with ice water, hot water, a bill on
Iare ana other necessarles usually calico
for by the guests. When he arrived out
side Mr.. ROe's apartments he was conI>
manded on pain of instant death to re-
lease its inmate. The quaking bellboy
rushed off after Miss Boyd and after some
delay found her. He explained to her the
state of affairs and she, remembering to
her sorrow that she locked the door, hur-
riedly tried TO repair her mistake by un-
locking the door. Her apologies, although
profuse, only drove Mr. Roe into fur,
ther frenzy, and forgetting her sex and
his own gallantry he roughly caught her
and threw her to the floor Her screams at
tracted a male guest, who grabbed the
infuriated man before he could Wreak
further injury on the chambermaid. Mr..
Roe,s anger passed Immediately and he
tried to make amends for his nasty ac-
ton, but the maid would have none of it.
The shock TO her nerves, the bump on
her head and a slight injury to her back
necessltated her taking to her bed, where
she remains, being attended by num-
ber of physicians, whose bills she thinks
will aggregate $500.
Mr. Roe left the hotel the next day, not
caring to face his fellow guests who had
heard OF his action. Rumor has 1t that
he is on his way East. Some guests con-
done Mr.. Roe's brutality by claiming that
he has been suffering from nervousness
during the past two weeks and, in fact,
has been constantly attended by physi-
clan; that when ne found himself a pris-
oner in his own room he thought the
chambermaid was making sport of him,
and when he saw her his pent-up feel
ings gave way 10 an outburst of anger.
/ They also say in his defense that as soon
as he recovered himself he tried to make
amends to the injured female, but she
would not listen to him.
Mr. Roe is said to be connected with u
large electric light company in the Windy
City, and has been out here to escape the
rigors of a cold winter.